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Environmental education
About: Environmental education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14551 publications have been published within this topic receiving 211056 citations. The topic is also known as: environmental learning.
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TL;DR: In this article, a study on Swedish high school students identified two types of hope concerning climate change related to environmental engagement: unrealistic optimism and inactivity, and they found that optimism was associated with unrealistic optimism, while inactivity associated with hopelessness and apathy.
Abstract: Is hope concerning climate change related to environmental engagement, or is it rather associated with unrealistic optimism and inactivity? This study on Swedish high school students identified two ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers and explore nine themes that occur frequently in the sustainability discourse as the basis for sustainability literacy, a complex construct validated through collection of multiple sources of evidence.
Abstract: Background/Context: This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling, attends to the tensions created by the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social equity systems. Sustainability education extends but does not replace environmental education or education for sustainable development, although the latter is considered a problematic idea. Purpose/ Focus of Study: Nine themes that occur frequently in the sustainability discourse are explored as the basis for sustainability literacy, a complex construct validated through collection of multiple sources of evidence. Specific strategies for integrating sustainability education into the preservice preparation of teachers are linked to a framework for teacher learning that addresses curricular vision, understandings about teaching, dispositions, and professional practices. Research Design: The article is an analytic essay that examines existing literature in the area of sustainability education and maps this work onto current research pertaining to the preparation of beginning teachers. Conclusions: Sustainability education represents a new paradigm for the preparation of teachers. It can help new teachers develop a curricular vision that addresses the fundamental social purposes of education in the context of an uncertain 21st century. Sustainability education also can stimulate a conversation about the role of teacher education in the creation and solution of global environmental and social justice challenges.
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TL;DR: In their review of evidence-based research entitled A Review of Research on Outdoor Learning, the authors identified five key constraints that limit the amount of outdoor learning and explored whether green school grounds might be a location where these constraints could be minimised.
Abstract: In their review of evidence-based research entitled A Review of Research on Outdoor Learning, Rickinson et al. (2004) identify five key constraints that limit the amount of outdoor learning. This paper explores whether green school grounds might be a location where these constraints could be minimised. Specifically, it reports on a study that sought to investigate the use of green school grounds as sites for outdoor learning, to identify barriers that impede such use, and to examine how these barriers differ from those cited in Rickinson et al.’s review. A mixed method approach was used: (1) 149 questionnaires were completed by administrators, teachers, and parents associated with 45 school ground greening initiatives in a Canadian school board; (2) 21 follow-up interviews were completed at five of the schools. Study participants reported that green school grounds are used regularly for teaching some subjects, notably science and physical education, but considerably less for teaching language arts, mathem...
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TL;DR: This article examined pre-college students' understandings of the nature of science and track those beliefs over the course of an academic year, and found that participants held fully formed conceptions of science consistent with approximately one-half of the premises set out in the model.
Abstract: The purpose of this research was to examine pre-college students' understandings of the nature of science and track those beliefs over the course of an academic year. Students' conceptions of the nature of science were examined using a model of the nature of science developed for use in this study. The model has eight tenets which address both the nature of the scientific enterprise and the nature of scientific knowledge. Findings indicate participants held fully formed conceptions of the nature of science consistent with approximately one-half of the premises set out in the model. Students held more complete understandings of the nature of scientific knowledge than the nature of the scientific enterprise. Their conceptions remained mostly unchanged over the year despite their participation in the project-based, hands-on science course. Implications for teaching the nature of science are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the New Environmental Paradigm and Further Scale Analysis (SSA) were discussed. But they did not consider the effects of the new paradigm on the environmental education.
Abstract: (1990). The New Environmental Paradigm and Further Scale Analysis. The Journal of Environmental Education: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 20-26.
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