Environmental learning, or how individuals make sense and meaning about nature, the environment, ecology, and environmental issues, is best understood as lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep (Banks and others, 2007). Lifelong learning refers to acquisition of skills, competencies, attitudes, and knowledge over time; life-wide is learning across…

Learning how to learn encompasses knowledge about learning, knowledge about learning style, and skills of learning proficiency. Metacognitive techniques can be incorporated into adult education through independent learning projects, collaborative learning, and other approaches. (SK)