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This article reveals the relationship between the Urban Environmental Education (UEE) and social context. UEE is a campaign conducted by the education unit of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) in the United Kingdom for promoting environmental education in urban cities. TCPA emphasizes the importance of ‘educational resources’, which refers to educational space; educational facilities, such as human resource; and the network of facilities. Among these, educational space is regarded as the most important resource by the education unit.
One challenge in the history of UEE research has been to elucidate the relationship between ‘method and approaches’ and social context. To overcome this challenge, we conducted a case study for revealing issues specific to ‘educational resources’, This study has chosen the case of Leicester Town Trail (LTT) as educational space, the first Town Trail in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, this study examines the theoretical framework of LTT and reveals issues specific to LTT as an educational practice, as well as the local social context at the time of LTT’,s establishment.
The findings of the study were as follows: First, LTT aimed to tackle ‘visual pollution’, which is linked to inner-city problems and responding to re-development plans. Second, the content of LTT is related to the re-evaluation movement of Leicester’s present environment. Third, the educational value of LTT is socially oriented.
