Ghosts in Australian environmental education

The Australian Journal of Environmental Education, first published in 1984, is a rich source for investigating the history of environmental education in Australia as it has sampled research and writings in the field since the Australian Association for Environmental Education was established in 1980. The Journal captures some of the ghosts that haunt our field, as Mrs Alving says in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (Act II): It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world...