Dissertations / Theses: 'Environmental education curriculum and pedagogy'

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Namafe, Charles Mwendabai. "An exercise in environmental education : investigating, disseminating and evaluating two contrasting floodwater metaphors." Thesis, Institute of Education (University of London), 1992. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/18847/.

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In academic and real life, issues of water have been predominantly ruled by a single approach. Such an approach, I argue, is the enemy metaphorical vision and I contend that this metaphorical vision comes particularly from the Dutch culture. It is further argued that the Dutch enemy vision, while not only problematic and giving rise to questions, is also nearly global in extent now. Running alongside the Dutch dominated Western metaphor I argue for the existence of another approach to water and floods. This is the Lozi flood approach in Western Zambia. The Lozi metaphorically view floodwaters as a patelo (ie. an open space in the centre of a village, public place). In effect, we have two contrasting views, namely, the 'enemy' and 'patelo' flood metaphors belonging to the Dutch and Lozi cultures respectively. Indeed, in the course of writing and researching this thesis I came to realise that the Dutch vision of water as enemy may be seen as metaphorical in itself for Western attitudes and policies towards water and floods. Throughout the thesis the Dutch enemy vision stands in as metaphor. This needs to be understood. Particular contexts are reviewed in order to understand the enemy/patelo issue and include (a) the Western flood-hazard school of thought (b) the Western Zambian experiences (c) environmentalism and (d) the 'serviceknowledge' concept for the role of universities in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding. Since the view of floods originating with the Dutch is, arguablyl considered to be a problem and now global in extent, the idea in this inquiry is to propose as a partial solution materials which would be seen, debated and assessed internationally. Theoretically, the proposed solution consists of an exercise in environmental education and a 'serviceknowledge' concept of education as defined in the text. In practice, the theoretical and abstract concept of serviceknowledge takes the tangible form of a pamphlet (for the local Zambian public) and the 'video script in embryo' (for the international public outside Zambia). Moreover, in practically carrying out the study, I adopt a mixture of three research paradigms, namely, the positivist, interpretive and action research paradigms. The pamphlet and video script are, in effect, both research instruments and dissemination techniques. The results of the inquiry are reported in discussion. My position moves from two contrasting ideas of natural floods to three different and contextually based interpretations of the biblical flood story. The study concludes with a hope that our knowledge of and attitudes towards floods and flooding, as well as modes of university public service in education, will have increased slightly in the course and aftermath of this inquiry.

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Nagel, Michael. "Queensland and Saskatchewan middle years students' experiences of environmental education : an analysis of conceptions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16008/1/Michael_Nagel_Thesis.pdf.

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This study explores the qualitatively different ways in which the phenomenon of environmental education is understood or experienced by a purposeful sample of year seven students in Queensland and Saskatchewan. In 'directing the activities of the young', environmental education has, since its genesis, existed in an epistemological quagmire surrounding the development of 'responsible' environmental behaviours. Yet, after some thirty years of research and pedagogical initiative, this is one of only a few studies that have looked at the reality of environmental education through the eyes of young people. Contested and debated, environmental education has received much attention in many countries from educators interested in merging the complexities of the terms environment and education. In the context of this study it is significant to note that environmental education's history bears witness to scholarly discourse and educational initiatives in Australia and Canada. However, while environmental education has continued to expand its presence in pedagogical and didactic endeavour, its history also demonstrates contested ideological foundations regarding its implementation in schools. Queensland and Saskatchewan offer pertinent examples of this contestation. From a global perspective, the goals and objectives of environmental education have been driven, developed and established around international agendas developed at a number of conferences designed and delivered through UNESCO. These global initiatives were then left to local interpretation that often resulted in very different didactic and pedagogic frameworks. Such is the case with Queensland and Saskatchewan where environmental education is situated within a social science framework in Queensland and a science framework in Saskatchewan. However, the pedagogical structure of environmental education was not the focus of this study per se. Instead, this phenomenographic research project looks at how the phenomenon of environmental education is experienced by a group of Year 7 children in each region. These children's experiences of environmental education can be encapsulated in a limited number of qualitatively different conceptualisations. The study finds that, regardless of their country of origin, the children conceptualise environmental education in five ways; Environmental Education as: 'Human Being'. 'Human Escaping'. 'Human Doing'. 'Human Complying'. 'Human Distancing'. Specific components of these conceptions are detailed through 'categories of description' which lend themselves to a structural framework referred to as an 'outcome space'. Through this 'outcome space' it becomes apparent that for the year seven students who participated in this research project, environmental education is, at is best irrelevant, and at its worst depressing. For the goals of environmental education and those who aspire and work towards meeting those goals, this 'cumulative movement of action (environmental education) toward a later result' as noted by Dewey and quoted above, appears to be growing in the wrong direction.

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Nagel, Michael. "Queensland and Saskatchewan middle years students' experiences of environmental education : an analysis of conceptions." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16008/.

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This study explores the qualitatively different ways in which the phenomenon of environmental education is understood or experienced by a purposeful sample of year seven students in Queensland and Saskatchewan. In 'directing the activities of the young', environmental education has, since its genesis, existed in an epistemological quagmire surrounding the development of 'responsible' environmental behaviours. Yet, after some thirty years of research and pedagogical initiative, this is one of only a few studies that have looked at the reality of environmental education through the eyes of young people. Contested and debated, environmental education has received much attention in many countries from educators interested in merging the complexities of the terms environment and education. In the context of this study it is significant to note that environmental education's history bears witness to scholarly discourse and educational initiatives in Australia and Canada. However, while environmental education has continued to expand its presence in pedagogical and didactic endeavour, its history also demonstrates contested ideological foundations regarding its implementation in schools. Queensland and Saskatchewan offer pertinent examples of this contestation. From a global perspective, the goals and objectives of environmental education have been driven, developed and established around international agendas developed at a number of conferences designed and delivered through UNESCO. These global initiatives were then left to local interpretation that often resulted in very different didactic and pedagogic frameworks. Such is the case with Queensland and Saskatchewan where environmental education is situated within a social science framework in Queensland and a science framework in Saskatchewan. However, the pedagogical structure of environmental education was not the focus of this study per se. Instead, this phenomenographic research project looks at how the phenomenon of environmental education is experienced by a group of Year 7 children in each region. These children's experiences of environmental education can be encapsulated in a limited number of qualitatively different conceptualisations. The study finds that, regardless of their country of origin, the children conceptualise environmental education in five ways; Environmental Education as: 'Human Being'. 'Human Escaping'. 'Human Doing'. 'Human Complying'. 'Human Distancing'. Specific components of these conceptions are detailed through 'categories of description' which lend themselves to a structural framework referred to as an 'outcome space'. Through this 'outcome space' it becomes apparent that for the year seven students who participated in this research project, environmental education is, at is best irrelevant, and at its worst depressing. For the goals of environmental education and those who aspire and work towards meeting those goals, this 'cumulative movement of action (environmental education) toward a later result' as noted by Dewey and quoted above, appears to be growing in the wrong direction.

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Swart, Ronel. "Towards a prospectus for Freirean pedagogies in South African environmental education classrooms theoretical observations and curricular reflections /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11262009-003922.

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Davis, Julie M. "Innovation through action research in environmental education : from project to praxis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67230/2/67230.pdf.

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This thesis is a work-in-progress that articulates my research journey based on the development of a curriculum innovation in environmental education. This journey had two distinct, but intertwined phases: action research based fieldwork, conducted collaboratively, to create a whole school approach to environmental education curriculum planning; and a phase of analysis and reflection based on the emerging findings, as I sought to create personal "living educational theory" about change and innovation. A key stimulus for the study was the perceived theory-practice gap in environmental education, which is often presented in the literature as a criticism of teachers for failing to achieve the values and action objectives of critical environmental education. Hence, many programs and projects are considered to be superficial and inconsequential in terms of their ability to seriously address environmental issues. The intention of this study was to work with teachers in a project that would be an exemplar of critical environmental education. This would be in the form of a whole school "learnscaping" curriculum in a primary school whereby the schoolgrounds would be utilised for interdisciplinary critical environment education. Parallel with the three cycles of action research in this project, my research objectives were to identify and comment upon the factors that influence the generation of successful educational innovation. It was anticipated that the project would be a collaboration involving me, as researcher-facilitator, and many of the teachers in the school as active participants. As the project proceeded through its action cycles, however, it became obvious that the goal of developing a critical environmental education curriculum, and the use of highly participatory processes, were unrealistic. Institutional and organisational rigidities in education generally, teachers' day-to-day work demands, and the constant juggle of work, family and other responsibilities for all participants acted as significant constraints. Consequently, it became apparent that the learnscaping curriculum would not be the hoped-for exemplar. Progress was slow and, at times, the project was in danger of stalling permanently. While the curriculum had some elements of critical environmental education, these were minor and not well spread throughout the school. Overall, the outcome seemed best described as a "small win"; perhaps just another example of the theory-practice gap that I had hoped this project would bridge. Towards the project's end, however, my continuing reflection led to an exploration of chaos/complexity theory which gave new meaning to the concept of a "small win". According to this theory, change is not the product of linear processes applied methodically in purposeful and diligent ways, but emerges from serendipitous events that cannot be planned for, or forecast in advance. When this perspective of change is applied to human organisations - in this study, a busy school - the context for change is recognised not as a stable, predictable environment, but as a highly complex system where change happens all the time, cannot be controlled, and no one can be really sure where the impacts might lead. This so-called "butterfly effect" is a central idea of this theory where small changes or modifications are created - the effects of which are difficult to know, let alone determine - and which can have large-scale impacts. Allied with this effect is the belief that long term developments in an organisation that takes complexity into account, emerge by spontaneous self-organising evolution, requiring political interaction and learning in groups, rather than systematic progress towards predetermined goals or "visions". Hence, because change itself and the contexts of change are recognised as complex, chaos/complexity theory suggests that change is more likely to be slow and evolutionary - cultural change - rather than fast and revolutionary where the old is quickly ushered out by radical reforms and replaced by new structures and processes. Slow, small-scale changes are "normal", from a complexity viewpoint, while rapid, wholesale change is both unlikely and unrealistic. Therefore, the frustratingly slow, small-scale, imperfect educational changes that teachers create - including environmental education initiatives - should be seen for what they really are. They should be recognised as successful changes, the impacts of which cannot be known, but which have the potential to magnify into large-scale changes into the future. Rather than being regarded as failures for not meeting critical education criteria, "small wins" should be cause for celebration and support. The intertwined phases of collaborative action research and individual researcher reflection are mirrored in the thesis structure. The first three chapters, respectively, provide the thesis overview, the literature underpinning the study's central concern, and the research methodology. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 report on each of the three action research cycles of the study, namely Laying the Groundwork, Down to Work!, and The Never-ending Story. Each of these chapters presents a narrative of events, a literature review specific to developments in the cycle, and analysis and critique of the events, processes and outcomes of each cycle. Chapter 7 provides a synthesis of the whole of the study, outlining my interim propositions about facilitating curriculum change in schools through action research, and the implications of these for environmental education.

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Ontong, Krystle. "'n Ondersoek na 'n sin van plek en 'n pedagogie van plek in 'n Wes-Kaapse skool." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85593.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempted to present a nuanced perspective on the sense of place of learners and the extent to which teachers practice a pedagogy of place. In the study, the researcher investigated the sense of place of twelve Grade 6 and 8 learners at a school, situated in an eco-village in the Stellenbosch vicinity. The assumption is being made that the eco-village is a more conducive context for cultivating a sense of place amongst learners. The group consisted of six learners that did not live in the eco-village and six learners that did live there. Furthermore, an attempt was made to determine what the two Social Sciences teachers' understanding of the concept "place" was, the extent to which they practiced a pedagogy of place and the influence that the eco-village had on their teaching approach. The research report comprises two components, namely (a) a theoretical-philosophical component, and (b) an empirical component. The aim of the theoretical component was to explore the idea of a "sense of place" critically. This was done firstly, by emphasising the nexus between place and space, secondly, to present more clarity on the concept "place" by discussing the multiple meanings underpinning the concept, and lastly, to investigate a sense of place as a multi-dimensional concept. Against the background of a sense of place and pedagogy of place, I critically analysed the South African curriculum statements of the Social Sciences learning area for Grades R to nine, in order to determine how these policy statements address the concept place. Teachers are confronted with these statements on a regular basis and the assumption is that the emphasis being placed on this concept in the statements might have an impact on their pedagogy. This assumption was further explored in the interviews that were conducted with teachers, in an attempt not only to determine their understanding of the concept "place" but also to determine the extent to which they practice a pedagogy of place. Before interviews were conducted with teachers, it firstly determined what learners' sense of place is regarding where they live and attend school. The aim was to establish the differences, similarities, overlappings (if any) between these two groups. This study serves as a confirmation of the complexity regarding educational discourses and practices that explicitly examine the place-specific nexus between the environment, culture and education. It challenges teachers and educators in environmental education to expand the scope of their theory, investigation and practice in order to include the social and ecological contexts of our own inhabitation and those of others. In other words the challenge for teachers and educators lies in reflecting on the relationship between the type of education that they strive for and the type of place that we inhabit and leave behind for future generations.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie het dit ten doel gehad om 'n genuanseerde perspektief te bied op leerders se sin van plek asook die mate waartoe onderwysers 'n pedagogie van plek toepas. Tydens die studie is die sin van plek onder twaalf graad 6- en 8-leerders aan 'n skool, geleë in 'n eko-dorpie in die Stellenbosch-omgewing ondersoek. Die aanname is gemaak dat die eko-dorpie meer bevorderlik is vir die kweek van 'n sin van plek by leerders. Die groep het bestaan uit ses leerders wat nie in die eko-dorpie woon nie en ses leerders wat wel daar woon. Verder is daar gepoog om te bepaal wat die twee Sosiale Wetenskappe-onderwysers se opvatting van die konsep "plek" is, tot watter mate hulle 'n pedagogie van plek toepas en die invloed wat die eko-dorpie op hulle onderrigbenadering het. Die navorsingsverslag bestaan dus uit twee komponente, naamlik (a) 'n teoreties-filosofiese komponent en (b) 'n empiriese komponent. Met betrekking tot die teoretiese komponent is daar beoog om die gedagte van 'n sin van plek te verken deur dit krities te ondersoek. Dit is gedoen deur eerstens die verband tussen plek en ruimte te bespreek, tweedens meer duidelikheid omtrent die konsep "plek" te verkry deur die veelvuldige betekenisse aan die lig te bring en laastens om "sin van plek" as 'n multidimensionele begrip te ondersoek. Wat betref sin van plek en 'n pedagogie van plek, is daar verder beoog om die Suid-Afrikaanse kurrikulumverklarings ten opsigte van die leerarea Sosiale Wetenskappe vir grade R tot nege krities te analiseer om te bepaal tot watter mate die beleidsdokumente die konsep "plek" behandel. Onderwysers word op 'n daaglikse basis met hierdie verklarings gekonfronteer en die aanname is dat die klem wat op die konsep "plek" gelê word, 'n invloed op hulle pedagogie as sodanig sal hê. Hierdie aanname is verder verken in die onderhoude wat met onderwysers gevoer is waar daar nie net gepoog is om hulle opvatting van die konsep "plek" te bepaal nie, maar ook om vas te stel tot watter mate hulle 'n pedagogie van plek beoefen. Alvorens daar met onderwysers onderhoude gevoer is, is daar eerstens bepaal wat leerders se sin van plek is met betrekking tot waar hulle woon en skoolgaan. Daar is beoog om die verskille, ooreenkomste en oorvleuelings (indien enige) tussen die twee groepe leerders se sin van plek vas te stel. Die studie dien as 'n bevestiging van die kompleksiteit aangaande opvoedkundige diskoerse en praktyke wat eksplisiet die plek-spesifieke neksus tussen die omgewing, kultuur en onderwys bestudeer. Dit stel onderwysers en opvoedkundiges in omgewingsopvoeding voor die uitdaging om die omvang van hulle teorie, ondersoek en praktyk uit te brei om sodoende die sosiale en ekologiese agtergrond van ons eie en ander se bewoning in te sluit. Met ander woorde, die uitdaging vir onderwysers en opvoedkundiges lê dus daarin om te reflekteer oor die verhouding tussen die tipe opvoeding wat hulle nastreef en die tipe plekke wat ons bewoon en nalaat vir toekomstige generasies.
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Aversi, Tânia Lídia Ribeiro. "Ambientalização curricular em cursos de Pedagogia de instituições privadas do município de São Paulo: desafios e proposições." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10259.

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The research s aim was to identify and analyze in documents, speeches and practices of pedagogy docents the challenges they face when trying to introduce environmental themes to classes for pedagogy bachelor s students as well as the propositions they created to solve such challenges. Researchers that reveal environmental curriculum processes, authors of the field of environmental education and authors of teacher s education were used as reference theory. The locus of the research were four private institutions located in São Paulo county and the reason for that is that the private sector is responsible to graduate an expressive amount of teachers who work within the region in areas such as kindergarten and the first levels of elementary school. The instruments used for collecting data were: a) analysis of official documents (pedagogic projects, curriculum and teaching plans) and technical documents (lesson plans and reports), b) interviews partially structured with pedagogy courses coordinators and teachers of disciplines that approach the environmental thematic, c) observation of teacher s pedagogic practices through watching their classes. The data analysis was based on the following categories: relevance of the environmental thematic in the education of pedagogues; political pedagogical tendencies present in methodological approaches; challenges and propositions of coordinators and professors to widen the environmental curriculum. The data analysis revealed the coexistence of conservacionista (conservative) and pragmática (pragmatic) tendencies in docents practices as well as limits related to the curricular interdisciplinarity and to the education of pedagogues oriented to work with the environmental thematic. As result the analysis has shown a list of propositions for the process of introduction of the thematic in the curriculum. It is expected that this investigation can be useful as resource for following researches and eventually for the elaboration of projects of intervention in environmental education for pedagogy students or docents
Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar e analisar nos projetos pedagógicos, no discurso e na prática de coordenadores e docentes de cursos de Pedagogia, desafios e proposições no sentido da inserção da temática ambiental na formação inicial de professores. O referencial teórico utilizado constituiu-se de pesquisas que revelam processos de ambientalização curricular, bem como da contribuição de autores do campo da educação ambiental e da formação de professores. O lócus da pesquisa foram quatro instituições privadas do município de São Paulo e este recorte se deu por ser o setor privado responsável por formar e colocar no mercado de trabalho grande parte do contingente de profissionais que atuam na Educação Infantil e nas séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, na capital do Estado. Os instrumentos utilizados para a coleta de dados foram: a) análise de documentos oficiais (projetos pedagógicos, matrizes curriculares e planos de ensino) e técnicos (planos de aula e relatórios), b) entrevistas semiestruturadas com coordenadores de cursos de Pedagogia e professores das disciplinas que abordam a temática ambiental, c) observação da prática pedagógica dos professores por meio do acompanhamento de aulas. A análise dos dados se deu à luz das categorias: Relevância da temática ambiental na formação de pedagogas/os; Tendências político-pedagógicas presentes nas abordagens metodológicas; Desafios e Proposições de coordenadores e professores para ampliar a ambientalização curricular. A análise dos dados revelou a coexistência das tendências conservacionista e pragmática nas práticas pedagógicas, limites em relação à interdisciplinaridade curricular e à formação dos professores do curso para trabalhar com a temática ambiental e apresentou, como resultado, uma lista de proposições para o processo de inserção da temática no currículo. Espera-se que este olhar investigativo possa servir de subsídio para futuras pesquisas e, eventualmente, para a elaboração de projetos de intervenção em educação ambiental na formação inicial ou continuada de pedagogas/os

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Chase, Steve. "Activist Training in the Academy: Developing a Master's Program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing at Antioch New England Graduate School." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1163790650.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Antioch University New England, 2006.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 12, 2007). Advisor: Heidi Watts. "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [in] Environmental Studies at Antioch New England Graduate School 2006"--The title page. Keywords: environmental advocacy, activist training, social movements, curriculum action research, master's curriculum, environmental studies, popular education, critical pedagogy, education for citizenship. Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357).

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Andersson, Pernilla. "The Responsible Business Person : Studies of business education for sustainability." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Miljövetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29400.

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Calls for the inclusion of sustainable development in the business curriculum have increased significantly in the wake of the financial crisis and increased concerns around climate change. This has led to the appearance of new initiatives and the development of new teaching approaches. This thesis explores business education at the upper secondary school level in Sweden following the inclusion of the concept of sustainable development in the curriculum. Drawing on poststructuralist discourse theory, the overarching purpose is to identify the roles of a responsible business person that are articulated in business education and to discuss how these roles could enable students to address sustainability issues. The thesis consists of four studies, based on textbook analyses, teacher interviews and classroom observations. Three categories of roles have been identified, implying that a business person is expected to either adapt to, add or create ethical values. These three categories are compared with the roles indicated in the environmental discourses constructed by Dryzek and the responsibility regimes developed by Pellizzoni. Drawing on Dryzek’s and Pellizzoni’s reasoning about which qualities are important for addressing sustainability issues, it is concluded that the roles identified in the studies could mean that students are unequipped (the adapting role), ill-equipped (the adding role) or better equipped (the creating role) to address uncertain and complex sustainability issues. The articles include empirical examples that illustrate how and in which situations specific roles are articulated, privileged or taken up. The examples also indicate how the scope for business students’ subjectivities are facilitated or hampered. It is suggested that the illustrative empirical examples could be used for critical reflection in order to enhance students’capabilities of addressing uncertain and complex sustainability issues and to improve educational quality in terms of scope for subjectivity.
I kölvattnet av den finanskris som kulminerade 2008 och växande uppmärksamhet för olika miljö- och hållbarhetsutmaningar, som exempelvis klimatförändringar, har uppmaningar till integrering av ’hållbar utveckling’ i ekonomiutbildningar ökat internationellt. Miljö och hållbarhetsfrågor har sedan tidigare varit framskrivna i gymnasieskolans styrdokument men i samband med den senaste gymnasiereformen 2011 skrevs begreppet hållbar utveckling tydligare in i Företagsekonomiämnets ämnesplan. Denna avhandling undersöker integrering av hållbarhetsfrågor inom ramen för undervisning i företagsekonomi och närliggande ekonomiämnen på gymnasienivå. Utifrån ett poststrukturalistiskt perspektiv är det övergripande syftet att identifiera vilka företagarroller som artikuleras i läromedeloch undervisning, och även att diskutera i vilken utsträckning dessa roller förbereder de studerande, som framtida företagare, att hantera hållbarhetsfrågor. Avhandlingen består av fyra delstudier som baseras på analyser av läroböcker, lärarintervjuer och klassrumsobservationer. Tre kategorier av företagarroller, som rymmer olika förväntningar på en ansvarstagande företagare har identifierats. Dessa olika roller innebär att en företagare förväntas antingen: anpassa sig till etiska värden som uttrycks i lagar och regler, addera etiska värden som efterfrågas av andra, eller skapa etiska värden. Rollerna skiljer sig åt huruvida en företagare: skall hålla egna känslor för hållbarhetsfrågor åt sidan (anpassande rollen), har utrymme för egna känslor (adderande rollen) eller måste involvera egna känslor (skapande rollen), vid fattande av affärsbeslut. Dessa roller jämförs med de företagarroller som impliceras i Dryzeks miljödiskurser och Pellizzonis ansvarsregimer. Utifrån Dryzeks och Pellizzonis argument om vilka kvaliteter som är viktiga för att hantera hållbarhetsfrågor dras slutsatsen att de studerande kan bli: icke rustade (den anpassande rollen), illa rustade (den adderande rollen) eller bättre rustade (den skapande rollen), att hantera osäkra och komplexa hållbarhetsfrågor, beroende på hur hållbarhetsfrågor integreras i företagsekonomiundervisningen. De fyra artiklarna innehåller detaljerade exempel på hur och i vilka situationer specifika företagarroller artikuleras eller privilegieras. Exemplen visar också i vilka situationer utbildningen tilltalar de studerande och potentiellt blivande företagarna som moraliska subjekt och ger utrymme för de studerandes subjektivitet (som inbegriper förnuft och egna känslor).Dessa exempel kan användas av (bl a) lärare som utgångspunkt för kritisk reflektion i syfte att förstärka de studerandes förmågor att som framtida företagare hantera osäkra och komplexa hållbarhetsfrågor, samt för att utveckla utbildningens kvalitet avseende dess subjektifierande funktion.

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Silva, Leonardo Dias da. "A educação ambiental em uma escola de educação infantil em São Paulo: currículo e práticas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-01112017-141239/.

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A presente dissertação tem como objeto de estudo a educação ambiental no currículo e nas práticas cotidianas de uma Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil (EMEI) de São Paulo. Com base nos aspectos da educação ambiental, eixo estruturante do projeto da instituição, e nos conceitos de educação infantil, a investigação se comprometeu com a seguinte questão: como a educação ambiental está inserida como eixo da proposta curricular no contexto de uma instituição de educação infantil? Trata-se de uma pesquisa pedagógica qualitativa que adotou a perspectiva de um estudo de caso único, tal como proposta por Bogdan e Biklen (1994). Como fonte de dados, foram considerados: documentos elaborados pela instituição como registros de reuniões e o Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP) em que constam as concepções de educação e infância da instituição, além de projetos desenvolvidos; diário de campo do pesquisador sobre as sessões de observação não participativa; fotos dos espaços; e entrevistas realizadas com a equipe gestora e uma educadora da unidade estudada. A análise e discussão dos dados produzidos foram realizadas à luz dos conceitos de educação ambiental discutidos nas obras de Guimarães (2004, 2005, 2012), Loureiro (2004), e documentos oficiais nacionais. Também foram realizados aportes teóricos presentes nas obras de educação infantil de Pinazza (2014), Barbosa e Horn (2008) e Oliveira-Formosinho (2007), além de publicações e diretrizes oficiais nacionais. O presente estudo trouxe algumas importantes evidências a respeito do processo de implantação e consolidação do PPP na instituição, especialmente no tocante às circunstâncias formativas, estruturais e organizativas da unidade, que evidenciaram uma perspectiva crítica e reflexiva de educação ambiental. Os tempos e espaços foram repensados por meio de uma efetiva formação e comprometimento do coletivo educacional. A instituição contou com parcerias externas (ONGs, voluntários, pais e comunidade), as quais contribuíram com o processo de formação, modificação e criação de espaços educativos. O movimento de transformação da instituição caminhou no sentido de superação de práticas tradicionais, dando voz à pedagógica participativa. Os planejamentos dos projetos estavam vinculados ao desenvolvimento da autonomia das crianças, buscando a autoria e o protagonismo infantil. Os temas estavam associados à educação para o ambiente, às experiências e ao contexto socioeducativo. O estudo destaca a possibilidade de inserção da ducação ambiental no currículo da educação infantil, de forma que seja possível abranger todas as especificidades socioambientais, por meio de trabalhos estruturados em projetos que envolvam toda a comunidade escolar, possibilitando a participação, construção e transformação do contexto educativo. Por fim, defende-se a importância da promoção de uma educação ambiental crítica e reflexiva, sobretudo na educação infantil, em busca da formação de cidadãos comprometidos com o bem-estar e a qualidade de vida no Planeta.
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the environmental education in the curriculum and daily practices at a Municipal School of Early Childhood Education (EMEI) in São Paulo. Based on the aspects of environmental education, the structuring axis of the institution\'s project, and in the concepts of early childhood education, this research is committed to the following question: how does the environmental education insert itself in the axis of the curriculum proposal in the context of a child education institution? This is a qualitative pedagogical research that adopted the perspective of a single case study, as proposed by Bogdan and Biklen (1994). As a source of data, the following documents were considered: documents created by the institution as meeting records and the Political Pedagogical Project (PPP), which include the conceptions of education and childhood of the institution, in addition to projects developed; researcher\'s field diary on non-participatory observation sessions; photos of spaces; and interviews with the management team and an educator of the unit studied. The analysis and discussion of the produced datas were carried out in the light of the concepts of environmental education. Based on concepts were discussed in the works of Guimarães (2004, 2005, 2012), Loureiro (2004), and national official documents. The texts also based on the theoretical contributions about the children\'s education in the works of Pinazza (2014), Barbosa and Horn (2008) and Oliveira-Formosinho (2007), in addition to official national publications and guidelines. This study presented some important evidences regarding the process of implantation and consolidation of the PPP in the institution, especially regarded to the formative, structural and organizational circumstances of the unit, which evidenced a critical and reflective perspective of environmental education. The times and spaces were thought through an effective formation and commitment of the educational collective. The institution had external partnerships (NGOs, volunteers, parents and community), which contributed to the process of training, modification and creation of educational spaces. The institution\'s transformation movement has moved towards overcoming traditional practices, giving voice to participatory pedagogy. The project plans were linked to the development of children\'s autonomy, seeking the children\'s protagonism and authorship. The themes were associated with education for the environment, experiences and socio-educational context. This study highlights the possibility of insertion of the environmental education in the curriculum of children\'s education, so that it is possible to cover all socio-environmental specificities, through work structured in projects that involve the whole school community, making possible the participation, construction and transformation of the context educational. Finally, this dissertation defends the importance of the promotion of a critical and reflexive environmental education, especially in the childhood education, in the search of the formation of citizens committed with the welfare and quality of life in the Planet.

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Coleman, Cynthia Christina. "Unearthing an educator's ecological niche: A heuristic inquiry." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/27.

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The purpose of this study is to better understand how the natural environment influences who we have become as adults. Recognizing the importance of childhood experiences, with and within nature, the intent of this study is to interpret the essential meanings associated with these experiences and how these, in turn, are situated in our beliefs and relationship with nature. The targeted respondents for the study were all K-12 educators teaching in schools in Central California. The driving research question is stated as In what ways do childhood experiences with and within the natural environment impact who we are as adults? Three sub-questions were also explored: What personal meanings are associated with childhood memories and experiences of being with and within the natural environment? In what ways do individuals assimilate childhood experiences of the natural environment into their adult beliefs about their relationship with nature? In what ways does the exploration of early childhood nature experiences affect the decision to become environmental advocates? Moustakas' (1990) six-stage heuristic inquiry process was adhered to. The initial data collection began within myself, the researcher. Aspects of the experience, which became the collected data by means of conversations with co-researchers, journal writing, and other personal documents, were filtered by way of my own self-inquiry, sense of eco-literacy and experience with my childhood experiences with and within the natural environment. From the organization and analysis I have derived the essential elements of the experience. Nature as the common denominator, Nature awakens inner passions, Nature as lived through a relational awareness, Nature experiences support and guide our every day lives, and Nature stimulates a child's potential were the key thematic elements that embraced my own experience and that of my co-researchers.

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Svennbeck, Margareta. "Omsorg om naturen : Om NO-utbildningens selektiva traditioner med fokus på miljöfostran och genus." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Teacher Training, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3941.

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This thesis is intended as a contribution to the discussion about science education, especially with regard to how care for nature can be understood, to what extend care for nature is included or excluded in the science education discourse and the importance of this in regard to an environmental education and a gender perspective. The empirical part of the thesis is carried out as a case study, where the discourse of physics is studied as a case within the discourse of science education. The discourse of physics is investigated by analyses of textbooks for lower secondary school in Sweden.

In the thesis, I present two ways of understanding care for nature. The first way is related to a systemic aspect of ethics that is based on principles. If the principles in use ascribe intrinsic value to nature, then the ethics can be seen as an expression of a systemic aspect of care for nature. The second way is related to an aspect of ethics based on care in ‘I-Thou encounters’ with nature, and is seen as a non-systemic aspect of care for nature.

Three forms of analyses are performed: 1) of the discourse and selective traditions in physics, 2) of orientations (attitudes) towards nature, and 3) of ways of knowing (indicating what meetings with nature students are offered in science education).

The analyses performed showed one discourse in physics education, consisting of two selective traditions. The systemic aspect of care for nature is excluded as the discourse has an anthropocentric foundation. The non-systemic aspect of care for nature is also excluded, as no I-Thou meetings are offered through the ways of knowing and no expression for the I-Thou attitude is found in either of the traditions. Further, ways of knowing and an ethical orientation associated with female gender are excluded. Thus, the discourse in physics does not contribute to obtaining the goals of the national syllabuses concerning gender equality and care for nature from the perspectives investigated.

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Castro, SÃdia GonÃalves de. "Elogio do cotidiano: a educaÃÃo ambiental e a pedagogia silenciosa da caatinga no sertÃo do PiauÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5584.

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Esta tese busca compreender o processo de construÃÃo do CurrÃculo Cultural dos alunos das escolas rurais localizadas no entorno do Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara. A constituiÃÃo de seu objeto de pesquisa incide sobre as noÃÃes de meio ambiente e de relacionamento com a natureza construÃdas pelas prÃticas cotidianas e pela dimensÃo ambiental do ensino da escola institucionalizada. Ã perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais e da EducaÃÃo foram acrescidos recursos teÃricos da antropologia de Viveiros de Castro, Tim Ingold, Phillip Descola, Marshall Sahlins e Mary Douglas e tambÃm o conceito de habitus e a teoria de campo social de Pierre Bourdieu. Identidade, cotidiano e educaÃÃo formam o circuito por onde a problemÃtica da pesquisa se delineia, traÃando os caminhos que revelam a visÃo de si e de mundo que compÃem o repertÃrio de saberes dos sujeitos em questÃo. As liÃÃes de sobrevivÃncia que o homem e seu ambiente natural impÃem-se mutuamente, fazem da escola um campo de tensÃes e conflitos e oferece as pistas necessÃrias para a compreensÃo do fracasso escolar dos alunos das comunidades estudadas.
This tesis seeks to understand the process of building the cultural curriculum for students in rural school located around the Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara. This research object are the concepts of environment and relationship with nature build for daily practice and the environmental education of the schoool official curriculum were joined to the theoretical anthropology of Viveiros de Castro, Tim Ingold, Phillip Descola, Marshall Sahlins and Mary Douglas and to the concepts of habitus and of Pierre Bourdieuâs social theory. The research problem is outlined on identity daily life education themes wich reveal the subjects environment vision of themselves and their knowledge repertoire. Man and his natural environment teach each other and which provid the clues for understanding the students failure in the communities stuied.

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Czaplinski, Iwona. "Affordances of ICTs: an environmental study of a French language unit offered at university level." Thesis, The University of Queensland, 2012. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:289156.

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This project investigates the integration of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) into educational settings by closely looking at the uptake of the perceived affordances offered by ICTs by students enrolled in a French language course at Queensland University of Technology. This cross-disciplinary research uses the theoretical concepts of: Ecological Psychology (Gibson, 1979; Good, 2007; Reed, 1996); Ecological Linguistics (Greeno, 1994; Leather & van Dam, 2003; van Lier 2000, 2003, 2004a, 2004b); Design (Norman, 1988, 1999); Software Design/ Human-Computer Interaction (Hartson, 2003; McGrenere & Ho, 2000); Learning Design (Conole & Dyke, 2004a, 2004b; Laurillard et al. 2000;); Education (Kirschner, 2002; Salomon, 1993; Wijekumar et al., 2006) and Educational Psychology (Greeno, 1994). In order to investigate this subject, the following research questions, rooted in the theoretical foundations of the thesis, were formulated: (1) What are the learners’ attitudes towards the ICT tools used in the project?; (2) What are the affordances offered by ICTs used in a specific French language course at university level from the perspective of the teacher and from the perspective of language learners?; (3) What affordances offered by ICT tools used by the teacher within the specific teaching and learning environment have been taken up by learners?; and (4) What factors influence the uptake by learners of the affordances created by ICT tools used by the teacher within the specific teaching and learning environment? The teaching phase of this project, conducted between 2006 and 2008, used Action Research procedures (Hopkins, 2002; McNiff & Whitehead, 2002; van Lier 1994) as a research framework. The data were collected using the following combination of qualitative and quantitative methods: (1) questionnaires administered to students (Hopkins, 2002; McNiff & Whitehead, 2002) using Likert-scale questions, open questions, yes/no questions; (2) partnership classroom observations of research participants conducted by Research Participant Advocates (Hopkins, 2002; McNiff & Whitehead, 2002); and (3) a focus group with volunteering students who participated in the unit (semi-structured interview) (Hopkins, 2002; McNiff & Whitehead, 2002). The data analysis confirms the importance of a careful examination of the teaching and learning environment and reveals differences in the ways in which the opportunities for an action offered by the ICTs were perceived by teacher and students, which impacted on the uptake of affordances. The author applied the model of affordance, as described by Good (2007), to explain these differences and to investigate their consequences. In conclusion, the teacher-researcher considers that the discrepancies in perceiving the affordances result from the disparities between the frames of reference and the functional contexts of the teacher-researcher and students. Based on the results of the data analysis, a series of recommendations is formulated supporting calls for careful analysis of frames of reference and the functional contexts of all participants in the learning and teaching process. The author also suggests a modified model of affordance, outlining the important characteristics of its constituents.

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Larsson, Joakim. "Ideologi, diskurs och miljöetik : - om ideologiska konstruktioner, pedagogiska publikationer och ekologiska komplikationer." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Educational Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-16.

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The purpose of this investigation is to examine the extent to which Swedish compulsory school tends to rely upon, and to further reinforce, ideologies that from a theoretical platform of deep ecology can be identified as “ecologically unsustainable conceptions of reality”. Mainly, this will purport to an examination of the (explicit as well as implicit) prevalence of anthropocenthrism, individualism, ethnocenthrism and rationalism in a) the Swedish National Curriculum; and in b) biology text books. Methodologically, the study makes use of Fairclough´s approach to, and method for, critical discourse analysis (CDA). The main results are that the National Curriculum indeed expresses a high level of individualism, as well as (although to a lesser extent) traces of rationalism and ethnocenthrism. Also, the environmental ethics that are supported in biology text books are interpreted to be heavily influenced by an anthropocentric world view.

Det övergripande syftet med denna studie är att undersöka i vilken utsträckning det svenska obligatoriska skolväsendet bygger på, och i förlängningen reproducerar, vad man utifrån ekofilosofisk analys kan identifiera som en ”ekologiskt ohållbar verklighetsuppfattning” – vilket i första hand innebär en närvaro av ideologier som antropocentrism, individualism, etnocentrism samt rationalism. Den centrala problemställningen syftar därmed till att undersöka i vilken grad dessa ideologier är implicit och/eller explicit närvarande i a) grundskolans lagstadgade värdegrund (som den uttrycks i läroplanen Lpo 94) samt i b) grundskolans läromedel i ämnet biologi. För att analysera dessa auktoritativa texter använder undersökningen sig av Faircloughs metod för kritisk diskursanalys (CDA). Resultatet av analysen anses ge stöd för tolkningen att a) grundskolans värdegrund, som den formuleras diskursivt i läroplanen Lpo 94, i hög grad genomsyras av en individualistisk ideologi; och i mindre grad även ger uttryck för rationalism och etnocentrism; samt b) att den miljöetik som läromedlen i biologi ger uttryck för huvudsakligen domineras av en antropocentrisk världsbild.

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Hoadley, Sarah L. "Environmental education : factors behind curriculum adoption." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2007/S_Hoadley_070907.pdf.

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Sportun, Jaime. "Advertising as a pedagogy? using literacy and critical pedagogy to empower youth." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104836.

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Partially grounded in the work of George Gerbner, and also in other media theorists including John Berger, Roland Barthes and Michael Hoechsmann, this thesis aims to explore the concept of media as public pedagogy. Based on these theories, an in-depth analysis of the advertisements produced by cellular goods and service providers and their effect on the youth generation with respect to the relatively new phenomenon of cyber-bullying will be examined. Then, through the works and writings of critical pedagogues including Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe and Donaldo Macedo, a media literacy approach to education will be introduced which aims to empower youth by enabling them to critically examine the media designed for their consumption.
Principalement fondée par le travail de George Gerber, mais aussi présente dans celui de d'autres théoriciens médiatiques incluant John Berger, Roland Barthes et Michael Hoechsmann, cette thèse a pour but d'explorer le concept des médias comme pédagogie publique. Fondé sur ces théories, une analyse approfondie des publicités produites par les fournisseurs de produits en téléphonie mobiles et leurs effets sur la jeune génération dans le cadre du nouveau phénomène de cyber intimidation sera examinée.Ensuite, par l'entremise de travaux et d'écrits de pédagogues critiques tels que Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe et Donaldo Macedo, une approche d'éducation médiatique sera présentée, ce qui a pour but de donner plus de pouvoir aux jeunes en leur permettant d'examiner d'une façon critique les médias conçus de leur consommation.

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Van, Winkle Kristina A. "Educating for Global Competence: Co-Constructing Outcomes in the Field: An Action Research Project." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1626442252415126.

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MacEachren, Elizabeth J. "Craftmaking a pedagogy for environmental awareness /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ66359.pdf.

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Spooner, Holly S. "Agape: Love as the Foundation of Pedagogy and Curriculum." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1524236286626882.

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Lee, Alison. "Gender and geography: literacy pedagogy and curriculum politics." Thesis, Lee, Alison (1992) Gender and geography: literacy pedagogy and curriculum politics. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1992. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/149/.

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This thesis is an investigation into processes of gendered subject production in literate practices in school settings. Focusing on student writing in geography, the study explores gender differences in written texts with a view to asking what is differently at stake for girls and for boys in 'becoming literate' in school geography. The study is an ethnographic case study of a geography classroom, focusing in particular on contexts for the production of two texts which are subject to close textual analysis. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives: curriculum studies, linguistics and feminist theory, the thesis argue that classrooms are sites of multiple and competing discourses. Student texts are oriented discursively and generically in different ways. These orientations both reflect and produce wider discursive alignments within the discipline of geography and elsewhere. The thesis investigates the politics of these differences. Part I builds a detailed account of the Year 11 geography classroom as a set of curriculum contexts within which students' literate practices are located. Readings are produced of the official curriculum resources, focusing in particular on the syllabus and the classroom textbook material. The spoken language dynamics of the classroom are investigated in terms of the materiality of processes of speaker positioning along gender lines in the production and negotiation of geographical meanings. Part II produces detailed readings of two student essays: one by a girl, one by a boy. Differences between the two are investigated, drawing links between the texts and the discursive contexts of their production and reception. The argument is made that the two texts enact a significant gender difference in and through different geographies. Part III discusses the consequences of the thesis findings for contemporary debates about literacy pedagogy. This includes a critique of one dominant framework within which the notion of 'critical literacy' is being engaged: that of educational linguistics. Finally, the argument is made that existing accounts of 'subject-specific literacy' need to be expanded to engage two senses of the word 'subject': both the specificity and multiplicity of the discourses of subject-disciplines and the concomitant production of different human subject positions through textual practice. To investigate the implications of this, theories of literacy pedagogy, it is argued, need to engage more substantially with available theories of the subject, such as feminist theories, while at the same time engaging sophisticated analytics for the exposure of the material workings of discursive practices in school-literate productions.

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Lee, Alison. "Gender and geography : literacy pedagogy and curriculum politics /." Lee, Alison (1992) Gender and geography: literacy pedagogy and curriculum politics. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1992. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/149/.

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This thesis is an investigation into processes of gendered subject production in literate practices in school settings. Focusing on student writing in geography, the study explores gender differences in written texts with a view to asking what is differently at stake for girls and for boys in 'becoming literate' in school geography. The study is an ethnographic case study of a geography classroom, focusing in particular on contexts for the production of two texts which are subject to close textual analysis. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives: curriculum studies, linguistics and feminist theory, the thesis argue that classrooms are sites of multiple and competing discourses. Student texts are oriented discursively and generically in different ways. These orientations both reflect and produce wider discursive alignments within the discipline of geography and elsewhere. The thesis investigates the politics of these differences. Part I builds a detailed account of the Year 11 geography classroom as a set of curriculum contexts within which students' literate practices are located. Readings are produced of the official curriculum resources, focusing in particular on the syllabus and the classroom textbook material. The spoken language dynamics of the classroom are investigated in terms of the materiality of processes of speaker positioning along gender lines in the production and negotiation of geographical meanings. Part II produces detailed readings of two student essays: one by a girl, one by a boy. Differences between the two are investigated, drawing links between the texts and the discursive contexts of their production and reception. The argument is made that the two texts enact a significant gender difference in and through different geographies. Part III discusses the consequences of the thesis findings for contemporary debates about literacy pedagogy. This includes a critique of one dominant framework within which the notion of 'critical literacy' is being engaged: that of educational linguistics. Finally, the argument is made that existing accounts of 'subject-specific literacy' need to be expanded to engage two senses of the word 'subject': both the specificity and multiplicity of the discourses of subject-disciplines and the concomitant production of different human subject positions through textual practice. To investigate the implications of this, theories of literacy pedagogy, it is argued, need to engage more substantially with available theories of the subject, such as feminist theories, while at the same time engaging sophisticated analytics for the exposure of the material workings of discursive practices in school-literate productions.

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Mok, Yu-fung. "Environmental education through secondary informal curriculum in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2119080X.

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Kao, Trai-shar. "Environmental education in Taiwan : a curriculum development of environmental education for primary schools." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294626.

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Martello, Julie Marie, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "Acting on literacy curriculum and pedagogy in early childhood education." THESIS_CAESS_EEC_Martello_J.xml, 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/764.

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The eight published articles in this portfolio collectively constitute a reconceptualising of literacy curriculum and pedagogy in early childhood education, with an emphasis on the use of drama pedagogy. The portfolio includes a synthesis of the themes that unify the articles and a review of the qualitative research methods that inform the articles, namely theoretical/conceptual and case study research. In relation to literacy curriculum, the portfolio explicates an inclusive and extended definition of literacy which reflects the wide range of social and cultural practices that engage young students in their everyday lives. From a sociocultural perspective, the articles investigate current literacy practices involving spoken, written and visual modes of representation and highlight the prevalence of multimodal texts within the concept of multiliteracies. Reconceptualising literacy pedagogy is another major theme of the articles in the portfolio. The majority of articles explore the use of drama pedagogy for the teaching and learning of literacies in early childhood education. A second pedagogical strategy researched in the articles is the explicit teaching of knowledge about language to young school students. The portfolio is underpinned by the premise that the proposed reforms of literacy curriculum and pedagogy contribute to social justice in education by facilitating success in literacy for more young students
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Martello, Julie. "Acting on literacy curriculum and pedagogy in early childhood education." View Thesis, 2005. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20060201.103358/index.html.

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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2005.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Education, May 2005. Includes bibliography.

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Moonsamy, Maistry S. "Foregrounding a social justice agenda in economic education : critical reflections of a teacher education pedagogue." Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 10, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/610.

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Social justice as a higher education project in South Africa has been a subject of intense debate mainly at institutional level, with considerable time and energy devoted to how such projects should take shape. There is, however, a need for a more profound understanding of how such an agenda plays itself out at classroom level. By engaging a self-study methodology, I argue for how the critical spaces that comprise a teacher education pedagogy curriculum can be effectively harnessed to foreground issues of social justice. I proceed to theorise an integrated social justice model for a pedagogy curriculum by demonstrating how the social justice teacher education pedagogue, a social justice pedagogy and a social justice troubling of disciplinary knowledge is likely to shape the social justice dispositions of the imagined student teacher.

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Owens, Darya. "Teachers' Pedagogical Resistance to Prescribed Curriculum." Thesis, Wayne State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10599931.

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Research indicates that teachers feel intimidated into fully implementing prescribed literacy curriculum at the expense of their own praxis which may indeed be effective in boosting student literacy achievement. This perceived intimidation may serve to compromise students’ literacy outcomes. The objective of the study was to recognize the different forms of resistance teachers demonstrate in order to take responsibility of their own pedagogical practices as it helps develop students’ literacy skills. This paper analyzes teachers’ praxis and use of integrated methods of prescribed literacy curriculum in relation to teacher resistance. It answers four key questions: 1) What forms of resistance to the prescribed literacy curriculum do teachers at this elementary school use? 2) Why do teachers use resistance? 3) What do teachers say are the implications of their resistance? 4) What are teachers’ pedagogical choices in relation to resistance?

The study gathered qualitative and qualitative data in order to detail the frequency with which teachers favor their praxis over prescribed literacy curriculum, and to address concepts such as culturally responsive teaching and social participation. The limitations inherent in the research are the lack of diversity among the 18 respondents interviewed (all of them white female teachers from a northeastern U.S. suburban school); and the possibility that respondents might be less than candid in their responses due to concerns about anonymity.

Most of the teachers reported that they felt teachers resist prescribed literacy curriculum by developing their own pedagogical practices within their classroom in order to feel responsible for developing students’ literacy skills. At the same time, participants reported that they tended to completely follow prescribed literacy curriculum consistent with their professional development training. Teachers have strategically adjusted controlled academic environments to serve students, which implies a strategy of politicizing education within their classrooms. The long standing educational systems which were believed to promote education for the sake of preparing students for service jobs and consumerism are adjustable in classrooms where teachers promote students’ social capital instead.

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Warren, Amber N., and Natalia Ward. "Equitable Education for English Learners Through a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5938.

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Westover, Jay Allen. "Integrating environmental education into the curriculum through environmental community service learning." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2083.

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The goal of environmental education is to increase individuals' ecological knowledge, awareness of associated environmental problems, and motivation to evaluate and implement solutions. This project combined the concepts of environmental education with community service learning to create a new method of curriculum integration: environmental community service learning. The California state standards for environmental education, service learning, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies were integrated into four thematic units using the teaching methodologies of cooperative learning, authentic assessment, and reflection. The integrated, thematic units of this project could be used by educators in a multi-disciplinary, team teaching scenario on in a single classroom setting as either sequential, thematic units of study or independent activities.

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Yoder, Gina Borgioli. "Understanding mathematics teachers' constructions of equitable mathematics pedagogy." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3330796.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 21, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: 3849. Adviser: Signe Kastberg.

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Cook, Barbara Katherine. "Environmental education curriculum for the California Conservation Corps." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3137.

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This project was developed to provide curriculum for young adults in the California Conservation Corps to help them connect to their employment with attitude and knowledge acquisition related to the outdoors.

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Hill, Landon. "Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596975.

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Utilizing the frameworks of critical race theory and culturally relevant pedagogy, this research illustrates ways in which hip-hop pedagogy can create a more liberating educational experience for Black and Latina/o students than currently offered in urban schools. The current literature on hip-hop pedagogy mainly focuses on how hip-hop makes standardized subjects more appealing to urban students while vaguely referencing its relevance to youth living in urban communities. Much less research has specified how hip-hop, within the classroom, can address the issues directly affecting Black and Latina/o youth. Consequently, some may wonder if hip-hop is actually being used to transform education, or merely to help students excel based on the standards of dominant culture (Au, 2005). The purpose of this thesis is to understand contemporary issues facing underprivileged Black and Latina/o youth, effective teaching methods that can be implemented in schools using hip-hop pedagogy, and areas of study relevant to hip-hop culture.

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Meier, Lori T. "Negotiating a Pedagogy of Teacher Education: An Ever-Renewed Adventure of Hope." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5916.

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Gutierez-Schmich, Tina. "Public Pedagogy and Conflict Pedagogy: Sites of Possibility for Anti-Oppressive Teacher Education." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20490.

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students, students of color, and students with disabilities are failing school and being pushed out at much higher rates that majority populations students while also experiencing high rates of bullying, harassment, and physical violence in school. This study explores efforts to reduce the violent experiences and academic disparities for these students through teacher practice at the classroom level. It examines public pedagogy and conflict pedagogy as curricular strategies in a preservice teacher education course over 5 years. The course aims to develop and support an advocate/activist teacher identity, a teacher identity that is not neutral and can challenge and disrupt the ideas and practices that have become normalized in our schools. This research draws on three theoretical frameworks to inform the design and analysis of this study on teacher identity: poststructuralism, feminist pragmatism, and queer theory. These theories provide a conceptual vocabulary for critically examining anti-oppressive teacher education curricula. Specifically, this work looks at the way public and conflict pedagogy can be used to achieve anti-oppressive curricular ends through the potential impact on preservice teacher identity.

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Poulson, Louise. "Education policy, curriculum and pedagogy in English and literacy, 1991-2005." Thesis, University of Bath, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438612.

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Wong, Bing-kwan Francis. "A comparative study of environmental education curriculum in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Singapore /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22401052.

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Law, Barry Alan, and n/a. "Experiential Education as a Best Practice Pedagogy for Environmental Education in Teacher Education." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031117.090529.

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This thesis examines the potential of experiential education as a 'best practice' pedagogy for pre-service teacher education in environmental education. The study involves forty pre-service teachers working collaboratively with the researcher in 1998 to test the assumptions of two previous groups of beginning teachers (1996 and 1997) who indicated in their course evaluations that experiential education may provide an effective teaching and learning approach for environmental education. This study combines two approaches to participative inquiry: action inquiry and cooperative inquiry. Both research approaches promote reflection-in-action and involve groups of individuals working collaboratively together as reflective practitioners. The data sources included reflective journals, a researcher diary, pre and post course questionnaires, individual interviews and group interviews. The environmental education course is a single case study and reflects the experience of three groups of students. The first group completed a 20 hour course in experiential education before starting the environmental education course, the second group completed both courses concurrently, while the third group only completed the environmental education course. The purpose of the literature review in experiential education and environmental education in teacher education is to provide a rationale for using a transformative teaching and learning approach in pre-service teacher education for environmental education. Contemporary best practice pedagogical approaches for environmental education are supported by many of the core principles of experiential education highlighting compatibility between theory and practice. The findings show that a transformative teaching and learning approach in environmental education was achieved by combining four key characteristics of experiential education in a holistic process. The four characteristics included reflection, connection to personal experience, emotionally engaged learning and student-centred teaching and learning. The impact of combining these four characteristics resulted in higher interest, motivation and enthusiasm for achieving the social action outcomes of environmental education. Thus, the pre-service teachers confirmed a synergy emerged between the outcomes of environmental education and the pedagogical process of experiential education. The experiential approach allowed the pre-service teachers to engage in the role of the critical reflective practitioner. Consequently, the pre-service teachers were able to identify the potential and possibilities for implementing experiential education strategies in environmental education and also recognise and challenge the barriers that confine and constrain its use in teacher education and formal schooling. As a consequence the pre-service teachers identified that working in collaborative groups of reflective practitioners was essential to continue developing effective facilitation skills and also to help them challenge traditional practice that limited their professional development. They also identified significant changes to the pre-service environmental education course to ensure a higher quality experience for subsequent groups of beginning teachers. The study highlights the need for more research into how well beginning teacher implementing environmental education function as reflective practitioners in their first few years in teaching and are able to challenge the barriers that limit transformative pedagogical approaches in schools.

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Lewis, Lucy Karelyn. "A model for developing a holistic collegiate curriculum for string performance and pedagogy." Thesis, The University of Iowa, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3638399.

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This thesis is directed toward teachers who work primarily with music degree students on the collegiate level. Pedagogy is simply too often "hit or miss" in a student's degree curriculum, and yet the reality is that most musicians will have to teach at some point in their careers, whether they realize it as students or not.

This thesis provides a model for how to holistically integrate pedagogy into all aspects of the performance curriculum, so that string performance students are provided with the necessary tools to be both excellent performers and teachers, regardless of whether they ever take a pedagogy class. This is accomplished through: the examination of survey results regarding how schools are incorporating the National Association for Schools of Music requirements and recommendations for the integration of pedagogy into course curricula; an overview of survey results reporting how string performers and educators feel about the quality of the education they received in regards to preparedness for artist string teaching; and a discussion of how to create a holistic curriculum for performance and pedagogy that encompasses the three main areas of most string performance curriculums (the private studio, chamber music, and orchestra).

The overarching goal of this thesis is to build on the rich tradition of string playing and teaching that already exists, by introducing a curriculum that will holistically educate the student as both performer and pedagogue. At the heart of this approach is the need for fostering a "see one, do one, teach one" mentality in students.

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Mok, Yu-fung, and 莫如鳳. "Environmental education through secondary informal curriculum in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961290.

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Swihart, Emily. "Integrated common core curriculum: environmental education through landscape architecture." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17547.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
Recent development and adoption of Common Core State Standards has shifted academic emphasis within public and accredited schools. Consistent, national educational goals have standardized education and have resulted in a challenge to educators to assist all students in achieving maximum test scores. The curricular subjects of math, science, and literacy are the primary emphasis of instruction and achievement. Standardized testing is the dominant means to determine whether students are reaching acceptable achievement. “Integrated Common Core Curriculum: Environmental Education Through Landscape Architecture” explores the potential of incorporating basic landscape architectural knowledge into a fourth-grade curriculum while striving to achieve learning standards as determined by the Common Core and the Iowa Core Curriculum. Exploring the application of current educational criteria, the researcher developed an educational unit that utilizes the process of park design as a simplified version of a landscape architect’s approach in order to emphasize math, literature, science, creative thinking, and teamwork. Implementing environmental education through place-based education theory enhances unit strength by providing enhanced emotional, mental, and physical health benefits to children. Created during this study, an instructional unit was evaluated by a convenience sample of educators. Through the use of an open-ended questionnaire, preliminary review results indicate a strong potential for the unit to successfully demonstrate the basic process of landscape architecture design through the use of the local place simultaneously achieving academic standards. Review results identify a variety of limitations and challenges the unit would encounter for implementation including a current subject focused instructional philosophy within the school district verse the thematic focus of the unit. Additionally, ever-evolving standards would require regular unit updates, although school districts face perennial budget challenges and educators are limited on time. As a student of landscape architecture, I recognize that the profession offers a unique opportunity to model place-based, multi-subject practices realized in the practice of landscape architecture. Promoting the profession of landscape architecture through a curricular unit provides an environmental education tool and provides the opportunity for students to explore a career option within the classroom setting.

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McMillan, Sylvia. "Kierkegaard and a Pedagogy of Liminality." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3624.

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There is a strain of curriculum theory especially since the reconceptionalist movement that applies existential philosophy to educational issues and questions. There is also a related branch of curriculum theory that looks especially at existentialist theology to cast light on curriculum issues from a more religious slant. Both of these strains of analysis are rooted in Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism and existential theology (Huebner, 1999; Tillich, 1948). The educational implications of the works of Kierkegaard are a subject that has been virtually unexamined in either educational or Kierkegaardian scholarship except by two scholars whose works are already 40 years old. A pedagogy of liminality aims at empowering the teacher and student to make what is being studied in the classroom something that each student will appropriate in her own way. The teacher facilitates this process by never letting the student rest for very long in any particular solution to a problem. Rather the teacher positions the student on a landscape which is filled with paradoxes. Each solution breeds a new set of questions and often equally viable though opposite solutions. The teacher thus constantly places herself and her student between dialectical poles, always reaching higher and higher syntheses in recursive process. The purpose of a pedagogy of liminality is twofold. First, it prevents the curriculum from becoming an inert object. It becomes a dynamic growing thing. Second, it requires the student to never rest in any so-called objective answer but to always be striving towards a higher answer and an even better set of questions. In this way the teacher and student in collective discourse are each appropriating the discourse uniquely in enriching their life narratives. This is consistent with Kierkegaard's primary emphasis on subjectivity and his view of objectivity as secondary and always ideally in the context and service of subjectivity. This dissertation is done in the hybrid style. The main part of the work is designed as a journal article.

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Meirson, Tal. "Multicultural Literature Curriculum and the Enactment of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/521067.

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Literacy & Learners
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This case study describes and examines the pedagogical practices of urban middle school teachers who execute multicultural literature unit plans with students of color. Culturally relevant theory guides the analysis of the teachers’ planning and pedagogy. The data gathered include; semi-structured curriculum director, teacher and student interviews; field notes of classroom observations; student reflective journals as well as curriculum artifacts. Data were analyzed and coded for findings, and implications for further research are given. Findings show teachers enact some, but not all principles of the framework of culturally relevant pedagogy.
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Carey, Gemma Marian. "New Understanding Of 'Relevant' Keyboard Pedagogy In Tertiary Institutions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15909/1/Gemma_Carey_Thesis.pdf.

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In current times, issues of curriculum relevance are driving a raft of reforms and reviews in higher education. The unmet needs of students in terms of employment outcomes, particularly in the area of the performing arts are increasingly a matter of concern. For tertiary music training institutions, the need to attach greater importance to student needs has forced a more critical reappraisal of curriculum priorities. An effect of this has been ongoing contestation and debate within music institutions about the nature and purposes of music curriculum as a university offering. This thesis examines the implications of the above by undertaking an investigation into the relevance of keyboard curriculum, as it is currently understood in one tertiary institution, a Conservatorium of Music. It examines the contestation over student needs that is apparent within the curriculum of keyboard within such an institution. The aim is to improve the institution's capacity to respond appropriately to 'student needs' by better understanding issues about curriculum relevance. This is done by investigating how needs become articulated within this particular institution and curriculum domain and by investigating the effect these needs articulations have on the practices of those who teach and those who learn within this domain. The study uses the conceptual work of Nancy Fraser (1989) and Elizabeth Ellsworth (1989) and a doctoral study by Erica McWilliam (1992), to focus on needs articulations or needs talk that is related to the needs of keyboard students within this Conservatorium. This talk, which is generated in management, staff and student texts, is examined as produced out of systems of language use that are employed within and outside the Conservatorium. The analysis of the talk treats the contestations and struggle over student needs in the Conservatorium as products of, and productive of, power relations. The analysis reveals discourse communities that are not only fractured from within but which share very little common language. It demonstrates how systems of language use at work within the Conservatorium marginalise students at the same time as they permit the institution to continue its traditional work and practice. The study clearly demonstrates how the institution itself is actively producing 'failing' and 'blaming' students as discursive subjects. The conclusion is drawn that more attention needs to be paid to building shared communities that share a common discourse, rather than trying to wedge more 'relevant' material into the curriculum.

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Carey, Gemma Marian. "New Understanding Of 'Relevant' Keyboard Pedagogy In Tertiary Institutions." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15909/.

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In current times, issues of curriculum relevance are driving a raft of reforms and reviews in higher education. The unmet needs of students in terms of employment outcomes, particularly in the area of the performing arts are increasingly a matter of concern. For tertiary music training institutions, the need to attach greater importance to student needs has forced a more critical reappraisal of curriculum priorities. An effect of this has been ongoing contestation and debate within music institutions about the nature and purposes of music curriculum as a university offering. This thesis examines the implications of the above by undertaking an investigation into the relevance of keyboard curriculum, as it is currently understood in one tertiary institution, a Conservatorium of Music. It examines the contestation over student needs that is apparent within the curriculum of keyboard within such an institution. The aim is to improve the institution's capacity to respond appropriately to 'student needs' by better understanding issues about curriculum relevance. This is done by investigating how needs become articulated within this particular institution and curriculum domain and by investigating the effect these needs articulations have on the practices of those who teach and those who learn within this domain. The study uses the conceptual work of Nancy Fraser (1989) and Elizabeth Ellsworth (1989) and a doctoral study by Erica McWilliam (1992), to focus on needs articulations or needs talk that is related to the needs of keyboard students within this Conservatorium. This talk, which is generated in management, staff and student texts, is examined as produced out of systems of language use that are employed within and outside the Conservatorium. The analysis of the talk treats the contestations and struggle over student needs in the Conservatorium as products of, and productive of, power relations. The analysis reveals discourse communities that are not only fractured from within but which share very little common language. It demonstrates how systems of language use at work within the Conservatorium marginalise students at the same time as they permit the institution to continue its traditional work and practice. The study clearly demonstrates how the institution itself is actively producing 'failing' and 'blaming' students as discursive subjects. The conclusion is drawn that more attention needs to be paid to building shared communities that share a common discourse, rather than trying to wedge more 'relevant' material into the curriculum.

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Jorgenson, Simon. "Green Pedagogy: How STEM Teachers Understand and Enact Environmental Projects." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397467702.

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Green, Anna Theresa. "The gendering of secondary music education : curriculum, pedagogy and the classroom experience." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021824/.

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This thesis explores the extent to which curriculum content and pedagogy in current secondary music education can be understood as gendered. The study is situated primarily within a qualitative paradigm whilst also possessing some quantitative aspects. It consists of a mixed-methods investigation into the practices and beliefs of music teachers and their pupils via a) a survey across 78 co-educational, non-selective and non-denominational English secondary schools; and b) detailed case-studies of three purposively selected music departments of contrasting complexions. The research springs from, replicates and extends that conducted for L. Green’s early study (1993) concerning gender and music and its findings are examined in the light of a range of historical and theoretical concepts that underpin this domain including Green (1997), O’Neill (1997), Paechter, (2000, 2009), Harrison (2009), Legg (2010), Abramo (2011), Armstrong (2011) and Bjork (2011). Throughout the thesis I compare and contrast three data sets (L. Green’s survey, the modern-day survey and the present case studies) in order to explore similarities and differences between the thoughts and behaviours of both past and current respondents. In addition I aim to extend existing theoretical paradigms by identifying how particular aspects of curriculum and pedagogy can be defined as feminine-gendered’ or ‘masculine-gendered’, (regardless of the sex of the teacher) through the development of a framework of descriptive criteria. In particular I review data emanating from the case studies in the light of this, examining how gendered practices and approaches affect pupils’ responses. Despite evidence of change concerning gendered participation in school music nowadays (such as boys’ improved involvement in 14+ examinations) I show how wide-ranging, complex and deeply-embedded historical constructs continue to govern the dynamics of the music classroom. These reveal themselves, both overtly and covertly, via the expression of a broad range of beliefs and behaviours which usefully elucidate and illuminate the concepts expressed throughout this study.

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Goudie, Mun Har Eliza. "Student teachers' experiences of the art and design curriculum : a transformative pedagogy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020332/.

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The thesis examines the learning process in the critical reflective activity of art production. It invokes a notion of critical aesthetics as a normative theory about how we ought to educate student teachers to be reflective autonomous learners in a world of change and uncertainty. As a teacher-researcher in the study, the writer introduces a pedagogy of critical aesthetics to engage students in the social construction of collective and self knowledge. It is argued that the aesthetic formation of visual art is rooted in social and moral consciousness and that this pedagogy enables learners to perceive the Art curriculum as a process of making sense of their everyday life experiences. Under appropriate pedagogic interventions, they adopt different modes of aesthetic understanding in the construction of symbolic forms and reflexively monitor their aesthetic actions to create new cultural meanings. Grounded in the empirical data of the students' visual texts and pedagogic discourse, the writer develops a notion of sublimation as a modality by which various kinds and levels of consciousness are integrated or combined in the production of cultural forms. The thesis examines the complex relationships between the subjective formation of consciousness, procedural operations of morality and the external reality of sociocultural life. This mobilization of internal human energies in non-discursive and discursive communications may be ideological and produce intended or unintended consequences. While visual art as a cognitive tool in the education of persons is not highly recognized in teacher education in Hong Kong, the self-empowering engagement with critical and aesthetic activities creates a space for symbolic resistance to inequitable social conditions and education. The concept of de-alienation of sensuous, affective and critical beings points to the possibility of social and curricular change as a consequence of authentic education through a sublimated process of expanding of human energy.

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Bentley, T. Mark. "The game studio| Developing literacy through the lens of game design." Thesis, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597407.

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In this thesis, I propose a curriculum for first year composition (FYC), called the Game Studio curriculum, in which students learn writing through experiences playing, analyzing, and designing games. In Chapter 1, I review the ways in which many students are already learning in video game spaces and argue that the study of games has potential to alter FYC instruction for the better. In Chapter 2, I frame the scholarship behind the Game Studio using James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy and Jesse Schnell’s The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. I also provide context for Middle Tennessee State University’s “Literacy for Life” objectives and discuss how the Game Studio curriculum supplements these objectives. In Chapter 3, I provide a detailed list of introductory projects designed to give both students and instructors a running knowledge of game jargon and game design concepts. In Chapter 4, I provide details for the final two projects, which involve the development of student-designed games. I conclude in Chapter 5 with my reflections on student responses to an exit survey at the end of the Game Studio semester.

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du, Preez NP, and M. Mohr-Swart. "An integrated approach to environmental education: a case study." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2004. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001980.

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Abstract In 1994, the Executive Management Committee (EMC) of Technikon Pretoria took a strategic decision to develop educational programmes in environmental management and sustainable development. The EMC also decided to integrate these programmes with the development and implementation of an environmental management policy for Technikon Pretoria. This paper describes, in the form of a case study, the project embarked upon, which brings together the development and implementation of the curriculum, research and development, management processes for sustainability, community service and national and international cooperation. The paper discusses successes and failures, and the significant lessons that could be learnt from the experience.

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