OUR MISSION: The purpose of AAEE is to celebrate and amplify environmental education in all its many forms and practices, and to support environmental educators across sectors by building networks, resources, and skills.

OUR OBJECTIVES:

To maintain a strong organisation based on integrity and inclusivity, by:

• Strengthening understanding and ties with First Nations educators and knowledge holders.
• Supporting connection to Country
• Welcoming people from different cultures, identities, backgrounds and abilities.
• Actively supporting all forms, practices, and pedagogies of environmental education.
• Developing a strong culture of learning, leadership, and professional development.
• Building a culturally and financially resilient national organisation.

To create opportunities for collaboration and connection, by:

• Facilitating events and projects that strengthen ties amongst members, and between member groups and the National organisation.
• Building and maintaining partnerships with other organisations and entities – locally, nationally, internationally.
• Prioritising a culture of connection and care between humans and the natural world.

To advocate for eco-social justice through environmental education, by:

• Creating and maintaining strong environmental education advocacy practices at a National government level.
• Acting and speaking for humans and other-than-humans who don’t have a voice.
• Supporting a wider definition of advocacy that includes education and agency-building in the following arenas:
  • holding actions (highlighting and halting current harmful practices).
  • transforming societal systems (food supply, energy transformations, education practices, politics, and more).
  • mind-set shifting (learning with and from and through First Nations insights, knowledges and practices; questioning business-as-usual approaches; honouring and including non-Euro migrant knowledges and experiences).

Please read our 2024 AAEE Strategic Planning LIVING DOCUMENT here.