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Tomren, Tom Sverre. "Climate Strikes and Curricula: Insights from Norway." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 24, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 105–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2022-0008.
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Abstract In this article, the author analyzes environmental pedagogy in the Norwegian curricula for environmental and sustainability education from 1997 to 2020. The author investigates how climate-striking youth evaluate the outgoing curricula through a survey in which 88 respondents participated. The survey reveals that young climate activists demand a more action-oriented education that emphasizes political change. The author discusses the findings against the background of radical eco-pedagogy and the works of Richard Kahn, Chet Bower, and David Orr and concludes that the youth striking against climate change is practicing the curriculum they are asking for and that schools should welcome the strikes.
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Kalorth, Nithin, and Rohini Sreekumar. "'SEEDS' of 'Good Lessons' through 'Many a Drop'-- Media Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental Pedagogy." Earth Common Journal 5, no. 1 (October 17, 2015): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31542/j.ecj.312.
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Environmental communication is now an emerging and a significant curriculum from schools to research centers. The effective and efficient environmental communication occurs when learners interact with their surrounding environment/ecology in which they live and reciprocate for sustainable protection and restoration of it. Developing countries in Asia and Africa are now setting up new role models and practices in curricula of environmental communication. The traditional theory based environmental communication curriculum of the last century is now actively investigated and restructured through community based learning, affirmative actions, and student centered participatory curriculum. Kerala, a southern State in India, serves as an exemplar of this new eco-venture. Through case studies like, Nalla Paadam (Good Lesson), Palathulli Project (Many a Drop Project) by the Malayalam language daily ‘Malayala Manoram’, and SEED project by another Malayalam daily ‘Mathrubhumi’, this paper analyses the innovative curriculum practices in the state of Kerala in India.
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Omoogun, Ajayi C., Etuki E. Egbonyi, and Usang N. Onnoghen. "From Environmental Awareness to Environmental Responsibility: Towards a Stewardship Curriculum." Journal of Educational Issues 2, no. 2 (August 9, 2016): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jei.v2i2.9265.
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<p>The period of environmentalism heightened environmental concern and subsequently the emergence of Environmental Education that is anchored on awareness. It is thought that increase in environmental awareness will reverse the misuse of the environment and its resources. Four decades after the international call for Environmental Education, Earth’s degradation is far from abating as it’s pristinity is consistently and irreversibly being eroded by no less than from anthropocentric activities. Humans have seen themselves as the dominant species that is apart and not part of the organisms that constitute the environment. The philosophical value free nature concepts and the theological assumption that human are the ultimate species together with the rise of capitalism and its surrogates consumerism together conspire to diminuate environmental health. To protect the environment therefore, we must refocus EE to change human’s view of the environment and attitude towards the utilization of its resources. Environmental education can become more effective in creating respect for the environment. This paper examined the failure of efforts at addressing environmental issues via environmental education. The paper posits that environmental problems are on the increase due to lack of deliberate responsibility and stewardship, lack of a unique EE curricula and ineffective pedagogy. We suggest therefore that EE can target human perception and attitude and direct then towards biocentric stewardship for the environment. This can be achieved through a deliberate pedagogy of environmental values that promotes sustainable attitude and respect for the environment. Humans must bear the burden of responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of the environment. We must replace the philosophical value free nature concepts that nature is a common commodity and the theological assumption that humans are the ultimate species. We must also rethink our consumerism nature and the endless faith in the efficacy of technology to solve reoccurrence human induced ecological problems. These issues must be embedded in the school curriculum. Pedagogical approach to EE should essentially be the experiential model. The school curriculum must be the carrier and doer of these values that are crucial to the sustainability of the environment. Environmental ethics, environmental code of conduct, environmental nationalism, nature as manifestation of God, ascetic consumerism are recommended as key component of environmental curricula and pedagogy.<strong> </strong></p>
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Inglebret, Ella, D. Michael Pavel, and Tamara Lehr. "Connecting With Culture Through Middle School Environmental Curriculum." Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Populations 15, no. 1 (March 2008): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/cds15.1.12.
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Abstract Purpose: This article presents an approach for incorporating indigenous culture into language and literacy intervention for middle school students. The approach is centered on the use of environmental education curriculum. Method: Seven over-arching standards for effective pedagogy in facilitating the learning of indigenous students are discussed. These standards are based on 25 years of ongoing research at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE). Application of the standards is illustrated through use of the Shadow of the Salmon curriculum being developed by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and Salmon Defense. This curriculum is grounded in the cultural beliefs, values, and traditions of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Conclusion: Speech-language pathologists can draw from resources available through other disciplines, such as environmental science, to generate culturally responsive pedagogy and materials that promote language and literacy skills for students of indigenous background.
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Marshall, Tony, and June-Ho Jang. "Educational Facility Users: A Study on Improving Environmental Curricula and General Pedagogy from Students and Instructors in Anyang." Journal of Studies in Education 9, no. 1 (January 17, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jse.v9i1.14172.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate ways to improve environmental curricula and local pedagogy by analyzing the satisfaction factors of student and instructors of various educational facilities in Anyang, South Korea. A survey questionnaire was conducted for 30 days from August 27, 2018 to September 26, 2018, for a sample group consisting of 1,000participants in Anyang. The survey questionnaire investigated various curricula and the educational, recreational, social, and environmental effects of pedagogy while studying the spatial, service, environmental, and policy factors of its corresponding facilities for both students and instructors.The cognitions of ‘Awareness to curriculum and pedagogy’ were analyzed. The cognitions of the purpose of taking classes were dispersed somewhat steadily among possible selections with ‘...for personal growth in developing skills.’ set at the highest frequency, and ‘...to be able to give and follow orders.’ set at the lowest frequency. In addition, class satisfaction was moderately set at above average frequency, while the above average frequency of student-teacher relationships was set moderately lower than class satisfaction’s above average frequency. In regards to curriculum and pedagogy satisfaction, the frequencies of both were set somewhat steadily. ‘Athletics and wellness’ was the most liked, while ‘Mathematics’ was the least liked. In addition, ‘Visual spatial’ and ‘Auditory-musical’ was the most liked, while ‘Solitary’ study was the least liked. Then, in ‘Checking academic progress’, ‘Tests/exams’ was set at the highest frequency, while ‘Frequent homework’ was set at the lowest frequency. In regards to fondness of nature and pets, ‘Outdoor activities’ were set at a significantly high frequency of approval, while ‘Have or want pets’ was set at a significantly low frequency of approval. Thus, the potential capability of environmental curricula improvements and general pedagogical improvements is very strong. In cognition towards the awareness on effects of environmental pedagogy, ‘Participate in camping and outdoor sporting (fishing, hiking, etc.)’ and ‘Participate in special interest meetings (hobbies and camps)’ were shown to be in high points of agreement. Furthermore, in preference of the types and activities of the 7 styles of pedagogy, ‘Use images, pictures, color and other visual media’, ‘Use sound, rhyme, and music’, ‘Role-playing is a technique that works well with others’, and ‘Highlighting your thoughts and feelings when you visualize’ were shown to be highly preferred types. Within the awareness on effects of environmental pedagogy, the three (3) factors were categorized as; ‘Environmental improving effects’, ‘Cultivation of gardens’, and ‘Participation in experiencing/education programs’ respectfully. In addition, three(3) factors were prevalent in types and activities of the 7 styles of pedagogy, thus categorized as ‘Analytical Learner’, ‘Emotional Learner’, and ‘Investigative Learner’.In addition to conducting a correlation analysis to determine the correlation between the preference of class satisfaction and satisfaction with nature responses for possible continuity, further research analytics rearranged the acquired data into two (2) additional forms of data output consisting of clusters and parallel plot groups. There were four (4) distinct clusters created from a dendrogram that grouped each participant’s profile according to fifty-six (56) of their cumulative survey questionnaire responses. Within the dendrogram of participant profiles, the four clusters were categorized as; ‘Low environmental engagement’, ‘Moderate environmental engagement’, ‘High environmental engagement’, and ‘Arbitrary environmental engagement’ with respect to environmental curriculum and pedagogy. Furthermore, the dendrogram data was converted to a series parallel plot points groups. Moreover, five (5) additional parallel plot groups were created and categorized by academic level, occupation, residence, age, and gender respectively.Conclusively, although the current situation of the city of Anyang is in the stages of major urban redevelopment, the potential overall effects of environmental education in Anyang are great. In the future, a diverse plethora of programs, such as diverse education/experiencing programs and information supporting programs can be applied to future curriculum and pedagogical development. In addition, the results of this study can be used as basic material for studying environmental awareness and directions of improvement for environmental education and pedagogy in the future.
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Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy, and Suzy Edwards. "Everyday Environmental Education Experiences: The Role of Content in Early Childhood Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 22, no. 2 (2006): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600001348.
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AbstractIn recent years discussions surrounding early childhood curriculum has focused on the movement from developmental to sociocultural theory. A further area worthy of investigation involves the role of content in early childhood education, specifically the relationship between content, context and pedagogy. The paper draws on teacher vignettes to consider how environmental education can be represented as a content area in early years education. Issues associated with environmental education as an emerging area of importance in early childhood education are also discussed.
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Wang, Yueying. "A Critical Analysis of the Implementation Process of Education Policy Borrowing: New Curriculum Reform in China." Asian Education Studies 7, no. 3 (August 31, 2022): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/aes.v7i3.1278.
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xamines the situation of education policy reference. New curriculum reform, namely “a new round of basic education curriculum reform”. Alternative approaches, such as school-based curricula, student-centred teaching methods, and formative assessment, have been used to draw on the NCR. In this essay, the borrowing process of China’s new curriculum reform will be analysed and discussed based on the four-stage analysis of Phillips and Ochs. At the same time, it focuses on the analysis of the core content—the specific implementation process of NCR, especially the content of “student-centred” pedagogy.
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Souza, Daniele Cristina de. "EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL CRÍTICA E A PEDAGOGIA HISTÓRICO-CRÍTICA: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DO GRUPO DE PESQUISA EM EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL – GPEA/UNESP." Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 12, no. 17 (2020): 52–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.32905/19833253.2020.12.17p52.
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In view of the concern with the insertion of critical environmental education in school, we seek theoretical-methodological contributions in critical historical pedagogy. In this sense, this article will address theoretical reflections that are born within the “Grupo de Pesquisa em Educação Ambiental” - Unesp-Bauru and that were issued during the 1st Symposium on Dialectical Historical Materialism and Research on Science Education and Environmental Education. Thus, we approach the question of the content of critical environmental education from the curriculum design of critical historical pedagogy. Despite the question of the content and form of Environmental Education being present since its origins, we understand that the indepth debate on what should be its content in the school context is still absent. In this sense, assuming the school insertion of critical Environmental Education as the core of the curriculum is a way to overcome its limitations in theory and practice for the human formation necessary for social transformation.
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Bertling, Joy G., and Tara C. Moore. "Educational approaches within US art teacher education: The status of ecological and environmental education." International Journal of Education Through Art 18, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 359–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eta_00106_1.
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Over the preceding half century, ecological and environmental art pedagogies have been put forth within the field of art education. In this study, we sought to understand their contemporary emphasis in US art teacher education and how that emphasis compares with other educational approaches. Through surveying art teacher educators and pre-service art teachers, we found the emphasis of ecological/environmental art education was the lowest of the educational approaches surveyed. In contrast, multicultural education, visual culture and social justice were some of the highest-ranked approaches. The gap in emphasis, between these approaches and ecological/environmental education, represents an opportunity to draw attention to their shared characteristics. We recommend art teacher education adopt an ecofeminist orientation to facilitate its transition towards intersectionality in pedagogy, so it can effectively prepare pre-service teachers to engage with social, cultural and ecological content and issues through art curriculum and pedagogy.
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Yu, Tao, and Manyi Gu. "Analysis on the Policy Environment Influencing Factors of Chinese Environmental Education Development and the Reform Trend in Combination with Environmental Education History." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (June 21, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3454709.
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At the turn of the century, facing the challenge of information and technology, environmental education, and talent competition, the world's major environmentally, educationally developed countries have entered the wave of environmental education reform. This was promulgated in 1999, and our country also successively promulgated through “the central committee of the communist party of China under the State Council on deepening environmenta education reform and comprehensively promote quality environmental education decision” in 2001 the “basic teaching environmental education course reform outline (try out),” launched to “deepen the environmental education reform and comprehensively promote quality environmental education” for the purpose of the foundation environmental education course and teaching reform. The curriculum reform is characterized by government leadership, expert guidance, and teacher participation. Its specific approach is top-down, overall promotion, concept guidance, experimental exploration, and gradual expansion, which has achieved a lot of theoretical and practical achievements. However, the practice of more than ten years has proved that the goal of the curriculum reform of basic environmental education has not been safely realized, the classroom has not undergone fundamental changes, and the advanced curriculum concept and curriculum system have not been transformed into advanced classroom teaching practice. This paper mainly discusses the influencing factors of the policy environment of environmental education development in China and analyzes the trend of reform in combination with the history of environmental education. On the one hand, the research of this paper can enrich the research theory of pedagogy; on the other hand, it can provide reference for the practical environmental education reform and have rich significance in theory and practice.
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Ellis, Rod. "Options in a task-based language-teaching curriculum." TASK / Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 1, no. 1 (May 27, 2021): 11–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/task.00002.ell.
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Abstract I draw on the education literature to describe four educational curriculum models, which serve as a basis for presenting four TBLT curricula based on the proposals of Prabhu (1987); Willis (1996), Long (1985, 2015a, 2015b) and myself (Ellis, 2003 and 2019) – all of which have figured in the development of TBLT. I propose a set of questions that can be used to evaluate these models. I then turn to examine the curriculum design process, identifying options in TBLT curricula that are available at each stage of the process. I point to a tension that exists between what SLA theory indicates is needed and what environmental constraints make feasible and conclude with a plea for flexibility by weighing up which options are appropriate in different teaching situations. I also summarize how I see TBLT benefitting from adopting a broad education perspective that includes critical language pedagogy.
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Cumming-Potvin, Wendy Marie, and John Currie. "Towards New Literacies and Social Justice for Engineering Education." International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace 2, no. 1 (May 30, 2013): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ijesjp.v2i1.3516.
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This paper argues for the need to develop engineering students with high levels of technical competency as well as critical awareness for the realities of working and living ethically in the global community. Drawing on social constructivist principles of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996, 2000), the paper explores new approaches for engineering education to meet the challenges embedded in current undergraduate programs and professional accreditation standards. To improve the ability of engineers to contribute to social and environmental justice, there needs to be a rethinking of engineering curriculum and pedagogy to develop engineering literacies that encompass a social and technical focus.
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Bester, Lucas, Gregg Muller, Brendon Munge, Marcus Morse, and Noel Meyers. "Those who teach learn: Near-peer teaching as outdoor environmental education curriculum and pedagogy." Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 20, no. 1 (April 2017): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03401001.
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Tomas, Louisa, Reece Mills, Donna Rigano, and Maryam Sandhu. "Education for sustainable development in the senior Earth and Environmental Science syllabus in Queensland, Australia." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 36, no. 1 (February 10, 2020): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2020.7.
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AbstractIn Queensland, Australia, a new senior Earth and Environmental Science (EES) syllabus has been approved for first implementation in 2019. Given the natural alignment between EES and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), this study employs document analysis to investigate the extent to which the intended curriculum reflects the tenets of ESD. An exploratory content analysis examined the frequency of keywords to identify any prominent sustainability themes that might underpin the syllabus, while a curriculum key guided a deeper analysis according to four tenets of ESD: Learning content; Pedagogy and learning environments; Societal transformation; and Learning outcomes. These analyses found that the ESD tenets reflected in the syllabus is limited chiefly to sustainability learning content, while broader notions of ESD, like the promotion of transformative learning, are marginalised or absent. Instead, the syllabus reflects a technical orientation to curriculum, underpinned by a neoliberal agenda. It is argued that the Queensland EES syllabus represents a missed opportunity to engage students with ESD. In a policy climate where achievement and accountability dominate educational discourse, there is an inherent risk that ESD will fall by the wayside, given it is not prioritised in the intended curriculum. Implications for curriculum development are also discussed.
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Noy, Sue, Rebecca Patrick, Teresa Capetola, and Janine McBurnie. "Inspiration From the Classroom: A Mixed Method Case Study of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Learning in Higher Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 33, no. 2 (July 2017): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2017.22.
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AbstractWithin higher education there is widespread support for developing students’ interdisciplinary skills. Despite this, evidence for, and practice of, cross-faculty interdisciplinary sustainability learning remains in its infancy. Recent articles have shown that Australia is no exception. This article provides a case study of interdisciplinary learning and teaching within a cross-faculty Education for Sustainability (EfS) undergraduate subject involving science, arts, business, and health students at an Australian university. A description of the subject and its theoretical context provides a platform for presenting the findings of a mixed method enquiry into how pedagogy supports interdisciplinary sustainability learning. The sequential explanatory research design involved a post-subject quantitative survey analysed using SPSS, augmented by qualitative student journal data (n = 67) using phenomenological analysis within NVivo. The study found that students, regardless of discipline background, valued the processes and pedagogy used to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and awareness. The experience left students feeling more skilled and confident of their ability to contribute to future interdisciplinary sustainability collaboration. This case study, replete with a subject description, theoretical context for an innovative pedagogical approach and study results, provides higher education professionals with a template for deliberative curriculum and pedagogy that promote interdisciplinary knowledge, skills and confidence that may contribute to transformative learning that supports EfS goals. The article presents a strong case for future EfS curriculum frameworks and strategic education policy to include deliberative interdisciplinary pedagogy. It also challenges higher education institutions to create flexible systems that facilitate cross-faculty interdisciplinary learning that is necessary for preparing students for the future.
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Laura, Ronald S., and Ting Liu. "Frontiers in Environmental Education: Philosophical Reflections on the Impact of Power Epistemology and Consumerist Pedagogy in Environmental Education." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 1, no. 2 (August 16, 2017): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v1n2p164.
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<p class="BodyA"><em>I</em><em>n this paper we argue that an educational ideology, based on an epistemology of power and consumerism, has become embedded within the structural foundations of Western Education. The combination of a power-based epistemology which informs curriculum design on the one hand, coupled with a consumerist educational ideology of universal commodification on the other, have served to provide the basis for a persuasive but pernicious philosophy of nature. Virtually every relationship we have with nature, and in turn with each other, is reduced to a saleable item for exchange. The radical shift in socio-cultural perspective which has resulted from what we call an </em><em>“ideo-epistemic pedagogy</em><em>” has been both monumental and inimical to the ostensible goals of environmental education. Motivated by an ideology in which knowledge is construed as a “form of power”, and linked to relentless economic consumption, contemporary environmental education will simply reproduce, albeit in beguilingly inferential ways, the same contextual dynamics of technological invasiveness and mindless expropriation of natural resources that continue to lead ineluctably, and almost imperceptibly to the decimation and degradation of nature.</em></p>
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Novy, Julia Wells, Banny Banerjee, and Pamela Matson. "A Core Curriculum for Sustainability Leadership." Sustainability 13, no. 19 (September 23, 2021): 10557. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131910557.
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In response to the scale, complexity, and urgency of the sustainability challenges societies face, there has been both rapid growth in the broad field of sustainability science and technology, as well as sustainability education globally. Yet, demand for sustainability education still far outstrips supply, and the gap between current reality and achieving the goal of intergenerational well-being is widening. There is a need for greater understanding, innovation, and alignment in sustainability education to ensure programs are effective in cultivating agents of change with capabilities pertinent to and commensurate with the nature of the challenge. Through a highly consultative, multi-year process, we used systems design, combining a systems perspective with the iterative design and inquiry process from design thinking, as well as grounded theory to develop a model of a “New Leader”, and an associated curriculum and pedagogy to cultivate these change agents. The resulting Change Leadership for Sustainability Program at Stanford University offers a set of perspectives, frameworks, and tools and a pedagogical approach that prepares students to study and lead change effectively in any social-environmental system, no matter the sector or topic of interest, with an explicit normative goal of intergenerational well-being. After testing and evaluating the Program’s curriculum and pedagogy over the past five years through both master’s and executive programs, we have found that the development of specific competencies is an essential element of sustainability education, yet it is also crucial to focus on cultivating the identity, perspectives, and agency of these New Leaders in order to prepare them for maximum impact.
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Elia, John P., and Jessica Tokunaga. "Sexuality education: implications for health, equity, and social justice in the United States." Health Education 115, no. 1 (January 5, 2015): 105–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2014-0001.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how school-based sexuality education has had a long and troubled history of exclusionary pedagogical practices that have negatively affected such populations as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (LGBTQ) individuals, people of color, and the disabled. The social ecological model is introduced as a way of offering sexuality educators and school administrators a way of thinking more broadly about how to achieve sexual health through sexuality education efforts inside and outside of the school environment. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses critical analysis of current and historical school-based sexuality education methods and curricula used in the USA. Authors use both academic journals and their own expertise/experience teaching sexuality education in the USA to analyze and critique the sources of sexuality education information and curricula used in schools. Findings – Historically, sexuality education in school settings in the USA has been biased and has generally not offered an educational experience fostering sexual health for all students. There are now welcome signs of reform and movement toward a more inclusive and progressive approach, but there is still some way to go. Sexuality education programs in schools need to be further and fundamentally reformed to do more to foster sexual health particularly for LGBTQ individuals, students of color, and people with disabilities. Practical implications – This paper offers sexuality educators ways of addressing structural issues within the sexuality education curriculum to better serve all students to increase the quality of their sexual health. Integrating critical pedagogy and anti-oppressive education can increase students’ sexual health along physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions. Originality/value – This paper provides historical analysis along with the identification of structural difficulties in the sexuality education curriculum and proposes both critical pedagogy and anti-oppressive education as ways of addressing sex and relationships education.
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Stanišić, Jelena, and Slavica Maksić. "Environmental Education in Serbian Primary Schools: Challenges and Changes in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Teacher Training." Journal of Environmental Education 45, no. 2 (February 12, 2014): 118–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2013.829019.
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Kaya, Jean, Roswita Dressler, and Kim Lenters. "Critical Literacy in Canada: A Systematic Review of Curricula and Literature." Language and Literacy 24, no. 2 (August 19, 2022): 25–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29606.
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Critical literacy is a pedagogy that serves to mediate social justice issues and educate for transformative social action. We present a systematic review of how critical literacy has been incorporated in Canada’s provincial/territorial curriculum documents since the late 1990s and integrated in K-12 classrooms in the last decade. Our analysis shows that critical literacy has been addressed with varying degrees of explicitness in curricula, and there is an imbalance of studies on critical literacies among provinces and territories. We discuss implications and encourage stakeholders in education to explicitly embed critical literacy into curricula and promote critical literacy practices in the classroom.
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Gaikwad, Suvarna Pramod. "EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION THROUGH NEP 2019." SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE 9, no. 46 (March 25, 2021): 11376–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjhsel.v9i46.1548.
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Various new education policies were formed to modify the educational scenario suitable to prepare our youth to meet present and upcoming challenges. NEP 2019 is based on the components of easy access in school, justice to all, maintaining education quality, low expenditures and accountability. NEP 2019 restructured school curriculum and pedagogy from 10+2 to 5+3+3+4. These changes are made to make students alert and appropriate to their developmental needs. This article will focus on Equitable and Inclusive Education.
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Nieto-Gómez, Yuly Andrea, and Amparo Clavijo-Olarte. "Situating Local Literacies at the core of ELT Curriculum in Higher Education." GIST – Education and Learning Research Journal 21 (December 21, 2020): 26–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.26817/16925777.830.
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This qualitative interpretive study carried out with four EFL teachers in an EAP course at a private university in Bogotá, Colombia addresses the disconnection that exists between curricular content and the life of students in education. From our understanding of literacy as a sociocultural practice we proposed a pedagogy that immersed teachers and students in community explorations to study local issues informed by different disciplines. Therefore, this study describes the ways teachers designed and implemented curriculum using community assets (Kretzmann & McKnight, 2003) to develop student agency. The issues addressed by students in their inquiries included improving civic practices in the cycling route; fostering river preservation; environmental issues with garbage in Bogotá; and possibilities to access higher education for young populations in Colombia. Using a grounded theory approach, we collected and analyzed data from class discussions, curricular units, semi-structured interviews and class observation. Findings reveal that community explorations fostered students’ agency towards studying social issues and promoted the construction of context-embedded opportunities for learning using students’ realities and topics of local relevance (Canagarajah 2005). The target language was used to reflect, pose problems, produce texts and participate in social reflections within an academic environment.
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V, Shylaja C. "Building Bridges, Changing Lives: Eco-Justice and Teacher Education." Artha - Journal of Social Sciences 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.12724/ajss.40.2.
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Eco-justice pedagogy is an approach that addresses the necessity of sensitizing the students about the nature of the cultural and ecological changes occurring now on a worldwide scale. It includes a critical inquiry that helps students recognize and participate in the non-commodified aspects of community life. This paper emphasizes upon giving special attention to what teachers need to understand about how the language of the curriculum is based on root metaphors that organize thinking in ways that ignore environmental racism and the marginalization of different cultural approaches to community, not oriented toward dependency upon modern technology and consumerism.
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Payne, Phillip. "Ontology and the Critical Discourse of Environmental Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 11 (1995): 83–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600002998.
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There has been a major effort in Australian academic circles over the past fifteen years to develop a critical discourse in environmental education curriculum, pedagogy, history, and research (Henry et al 1981, Di Chiro 1987, Gough 1987, 1994, Robottom 1987, Greenall 1987, Fien 1993 a,b, Greenall Gough 1993, Robottom & Hart 1993). This discourse is critical of ‘mainstream’ approaches to environmental education that are alleged to be positivist, behaviourist, masculinist, and instrumentalist. Internationally, environmental educators have also considered various shortcomings of environmental education. There is general concern about unrealised aspirations, unrealistic expectations, definitional problems, values issues, conceptual obfuscation and questionable research endeavours (Brennan 1979, Disinger 1979, 1985, Williams 1979, Baer 1980, 1981, 1985, Knapp 1983, Roth 1988, Iozzi 1989 a,b, Gigliotti 1990, Marcinkowski 1990, Wals, Beringer & Stapp 1990, Ham & Sewing 1992, Leming 1992, Pinar & Bowers 1992, Ramsey, Hungerford & Volk 1992). Consequently, it can be asserted there are practical deficiencies of a moral, social, political, and ecological nature. If so, one conclusion about the development of the field of environmental education is that it is problematic and often contradictory.
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Jukes, Scott. "Review of Developing place-responsive pedagogy in outdoor environmental education: A rhizomatic curriculum autobiography by Alistair Stewart." Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 23, no. 3 (October 8, 2020): 323–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42322-020-00067-2.
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O’Connor, Justen. "Exploring a pedagogy for meaning-making in physical education." European Physical Education Review 25, no. 4 (October 1, 2018): 1093–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356336x18802286.
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This paper responds to calls for an exploration into pedagogies of meaning within physical education. Developing meaningful educational experiences in physical education for lifelong movement involves supporting students to explore their personal experiences in movement and to use these to derive a greater understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Following a brief overview of the role of meaning-making in physical education, a case study is offered as a practical example for how reflection can be utilised to explore movement as meaningful. The case study presents a series of steps that provide detail about a meaning-making process undertaken during a physical education class. Data suggest that setting aside time for reflection and the generation of rich movement narratives aligned to a ‘first rush of movement’, can shed light on what students find meaningful ‘in’ movement in ways that link physical education to experiences across varying social and environmental contexts. Through giving priority to bodily understandings of movement as felt, sensory experience, participants ( n = 44) were able to express meaning across a wide range of movement contexts. I contend that the exploration of student meaning in physical education is engaging, informative, and serves to extend possibilities for what curriculum is seen as legitimate in physical education by/for whom. The paper sheds light on the use of embodied meaning-making stories as a potential springboard for further exploration and activity in physical education.
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Collado, Silvia, Claudio D. Rosa, and José A. Corraliza. "The Effect of a Nature-Based Environmental Education Program on Children’s Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Randomized Experiment with Primary Schools." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (August 22, 2020): 6817. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176817.
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The evidence about the effects of nature-based instruction on pro-environmentalism is uncompelling, mainly due to a lack of controlled experiments. This hinders causal claims and the provision of intervention guidelines. We present an experiment examining the impact of a nature-based environmental education (NBEE) program included in the school curriculum on children’s environmental attitudes (EA) and behaviors (EB). Children who followed the program through traditional instruction were used as a control group. Seven Spanish primary schools participated in the program and school classes were randomly assigned to the NBEE program (experimental group, N = 516) or the environmental education (EE) through traditional instruction (control group, N = 218). Our results indicate that children’s EA increased more in the NBEE group than in the control group. On average, EB remained virtually the same in both groups of children across time. In light of our findings, we encourage the promotion of a nature-based pedagogy in formal education to enhance children’s environmental attitudes.
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Keumala, Nila, Mohammed Amer Younus, Yong Kuan, Asrul Sani Bin Abdul Razak, Muhammad Azzam Ismail, and Karam M. Al-Obaidi. "Pedagogy of Architectural Education on Sustainability in Malaysia – Student Perspective." Open House International 41, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 104–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-04-2016-b0014.
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The increasing global concerns about the environmental degradation and climate changes oblige architecture students to apply sustainable design approaches in their studio projects. Therefore, renewable energy raises the expectation of providing sustainable solutions for their architectural design proposals. This paper aims to investigate the learning of students in knowledge, awareness and applicability on sustainability during their first three years of the part 1 architecture programme. Surveys were conducted on 500 students from eight architecture schools from the local universities, two architecture schools from the polytechnic colleges and three architectural schools from the overseas universities. These survey results from 335 respondents confirmed that the learning on sustainability through self (51.6%), peer (48.6%) and design studio lecturers (37.0%). These results confirmed also that most respondents did rely on pre-design assessments to develop sustainable design strategies in their final architectural design proposals. These results concluded that the perception of architecture students on learning sustainability is based mainly on other sources. These findings provide knowledge for educationists and practitioners towards the planning of architecture curriculum and the implementation of pedagogical approach in sustainability. This paper determines the most important source of learning on sustainability knowledge for students in the pedagogy at university level.
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Nur, Sahril, Ismail Anas, and Reski Pilu. "The Call for Environmentally-Based Language Teaching and Green Pedagogy: Climate Actions in Language Education." Elsya : Journal of English Language Studies 4, no. 1 (April 7, 2022): 77–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/elsya.v4i1.9526.
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Environmental education (EE) is one of the content-based language learning pedagogies used to enhance students’ awareness of environmental concerns and their effect on people and animals. It aims to build the language teachers’ and students’ awareness of the importance of EE and green pedagogy in ELT. However, research into integrating EE in language education is still scarce. Therefore, this article presents an analysis of multimodal discourse of the EE imperatives in using content and language integrated learning (CLIL) strategy. Grounded in the video data analysis (VDA) approach, the researchers analysed the recorded talks of two university lecturers who offered their finest teaching approaches, and two environmentalists from “Bye-Bye Plastic Bags Jakarta” who described their significant efforts in handling plastic waste from a 2021 webinar held by the British Council Indonesia. Based on the thematic analysis, the forum suggests: 1) including environmental issues in language curriculum, syllabus, and textbook development, 2) providing environmentally-relevant materials and resources, 3) providing environmental language teacher professional development, and 4) accelerating environmental literacy programs at all levels of education. In other words, the inclusion of green pedagogy and environmental sustainability initiatives in ELT should be well-acknowledged. The methodological and pedagogical strategies in integrating environmental issues in ELT in this study addressed the high demand to catalyse language teachers’ metacognitive awareness in EE and indirectly build students’ metacognitive skills about environmental care.
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Petraglia, Marcelo Silveira, and Erika de Andrade Silva. "WALDORF SCHOOLS MUSIC EDUCATION APPROACH AS INSPIRATION FOR WORK IN OTHER CONTEXTS." ERAS | European Review of Artistic Studies 4, no. 3 (September 30, 2013): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.37334/eras.v4i3.134.
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Brazil has, since 2008, been the seat of heated debates on putting music back into public and private schools. Recent legislation (Law 11.769) declared music a required subject in all Brazilian schools from preschool through high school. Much has been discussed, however, as to the professionals who will take on this challenge, the methodology and content involved as well as the role of music in the schools. Here, I present some personal observations and reflections based on experiences during my career as a music educator in a Waldorf school as well as a professor in Music Education programs at two universities in São Paulo State. In supervising student teachers or giving pedagogy courses, I am witness to innumerous queries from musicians and music educators having to do with the return of music to the schools. This paper describes the intent the music education curriculum used inside Waldorf schools. Waldorf education in Brazil has an over 50-year history since its beginnings in 1955. The many trails already forged offer possibilities and recommendations for Music Education both in traditional schools as well as in educational social programs. This text offers a brief description of Waldorf pedagogy and will describe the music curriculum used from preschool through high school. I also discuss the human formation of teachers, of their knowledge, abilities, attitudes and skills. Finally, I present suggestions for possible applications of these experiences for music education in other contexts.
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Ricket, Allison L. "Teaching Land as an Extension of Self: The Role of Ecopsychology in Disrupting Capitalist Narratives of Land and Resource Exploitation." Radical Teacher 119 (April 17, 2021): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2021.706.
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Ecopsychology, which investigates the human-nature relationship, draws on marginalized ways of knowing such as Native American Shamanism, “whole earth thinking,” and the dynamic feminine (Gomez & Kanner, 1995). Impediments of literal classroom walls and systemic bias against unquantifiable course outcomes limits traditional pedagogy. Traditional pedagogical approaches to environmental curriculum reinforce perceived helplessness in the face of capitalist forces which identify land only as explotiable “other” (hooks, 2011). This paper describes a university English classroom's radical Ecopedagogy without spatial impedences and state policed “standards” that no longer enforce normative identity constructs. In this Ecopedagogy, students explore Biophilia, which awakens a powerful, dormant identity, expanding the self to include the entire biosphere.
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Payne, Phillip G. "Critical Curriculum Theory and Slow Ecopedagogical Activism." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 31, no. 2 (October 15, 2015): 165–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2015.32.
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AbstractEnacting a critical environmental education curriculum theory with 8- to 9-year-old children in 1978 is now ‘restoried’ in a ‘history of the present/future’ like ‘case study’ for prosecuting five interrelated problems confronting progress in environmental education and its research. They are: the intense heat of the Anthropocene; the accelerating speed of the Dromosphere; the deep cuts of neoliberalism's policing of the cognitive capitalism of the corporate university and public education; the entrepreneurial entry of sustainababble into the discourse of education; and the digital colonisation of its pedagogical practices. The once radical promise of environmental education to serve as a critique of education partially through its ‘language’ (Le Grange, 2013) of empowerment, agency, transformation, contestation, ideology, ethics, action, praxis and change demands revitalisation; hence, this belated restorying of the 1978 case. The time is right; at least in some academic/educational settings where the ‘new materialism’ notions of critical, agency and action remain much more than a fading memory or convenient text. New theory helps restory this old curriculum theory and its slow ecopedagogical activism. In this ‘old’, the critical curriculum theory (re)positioned young children and their teacher as action researchers of their own embodied socio-environmental relations. Through highly inclusive and participatory practices of outdoor and indoor ecopedagogy, children became ethically active ‘citizens’, capable of democratically enacting political and Political change. This ‘active responsibility for the environment’ was, indeed, a key purpose, or promise, of environmental education when the field was formalised in the 1970s. Elements of children's (eco)aesthetics-environmental ethics and ecopolitics are described in this case account of the ‘environmental design’ of a radical curriculum innovation that critically emphasised the ‘humanly-constructive’ educational conditions that enable agency (Payne, 1995, 1999a). Such enablements were only ever assumed in the ‘socially critical’ theorisations of curriculum and pedagogy developed in Australia in the early 1980s. For researchers, this partially autoethnographic narrating of the old case describes the children's (embodied) experiences and locally emplaced agencies in newer theoretical ‘figurations’ of their ‘body~time~space’ relationalities. Children's outdoor ‘expeditions’, interdisciplinary inquiries, literacy development, scientific investigations, and personal and public activisms are described. Revealing these micro figurational relationalities in slow ecopedagogical contexts of the environmental design of education (Payne, 2014) is consistent with Robottom and Hart's (1993) too often forgotten ‘old’ call for researchers and practitioners to clarify the presuppositions they make about the trilogy of ontology-epistemology and methodology in framing, conceptualising, contextualising, representing, and legitimating the research problem and its questions. This restorying and history of the present/future is alert to (but cannot develop) aspects of contemporary ‘high’ theory drawn from the humanities, social sciences and arts that prioritises the politics of ontological deliberation and the ecologies of things, (re)claims a material disposition in empirical inquiry and critique while speculating about non-anthropocentric ‘thought’ responsive to the ‘new’ rallying point of, for example, the Anthropocene. In sum, new theory helps restory the critical, creative, expressive and experimental forms of re-theorising the persistent problematic of human and non-human nature relations and the role of education — well on display in this ‘old.’ This revitalised history of the present/future aims to revive critical optimism and imagination about how agencies of socio-environmental change once promised by critical environmental education and its research can be re‘turned’. The article concludes with some post-critical retheorising of key critical components of the 1978 curriculum theory.
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Kopnina, Helen, and Maria Helena Saari. "If a Tree Falls: Business Students Learning Active Citizenship from Environmentalists." Education Sciences 9, no. 4 (November 30, 2019): 284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci9040284.
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This article presents and discusses student assignments reflecting on the documentary film If a Tree Falls, written as part of the Business Ethics and Sustainability course at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. This article follows two lines of inquiry. First, it challenges mainstream environmental education, supporting critical pedagogy and ecopedagogy. These pedagogies, which advocate pedagogy for radical change, offer a distinct and valuable contribution to sustainability education, enabling students to critically examine normative assumptions, and learn about ethical relativity, and citizenship engagement from environmentalists. The discussion of “lessons of radical environmentalism” is pertinent to the question of what types of actions are likely to achieve the widely acceptable long-term societal change. While this article focuses on student reflection on a film about radical environmentalism, this article also discusses many forms of activism and raises the question of what can be considered effective activism and active citizenship in the context of the philosophy of (environmental or sustainability) education in connection didactics and curriculum studies. Second, this article argues for the need for reformed democracy and inclusive pluralism that recognizes the needs of nonhuman species, ecocentrism, and deep ecology. The connection between these two purposes is expressed in the design of the student assignment: It is described as a case study, which employs critical pedagogy and ecopedagogy.
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Stephenson Reaves, Jessica R., Rasheda Likely, and Anna Maria Arias. "Design Principles for Considering the Participatory Relationship of Students, Teachers, Curriculum, and Place in Project-Based STEM Units." Education Sciences 12, no. 11 (October 28, 2022): 760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci12110760.
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Historically, STEM learning spaces and curriculum have overlooked the strengths and agency of students, teachers, and their communities. Project-based STEM units about environmental issues like water quality offer the possibility to create more expansive, equitable learning experiences. These units can leverage local problems and resources while also including the global dimensions of the issue to provide meaningful opportunities for diverse student sensemaking. However, even project-based STEM learning requires explicit attention to the agency of teachers, students, and place. In order to identify a set of design principles for supporting equitable learning in a project-based STEM curriculum, this manuscript brings together a set of empirical and theoretical frameworks including teacher participatory relationship with the curriculum, culturally sustaining pedagogy, critical pedagogy of place, and equitable sensemaking. The authors use these frameworks to describe a conceptual model of Participatory Relationship of Students, Communities, Teachers, Curriculum and Place. Then, the manuscript outlines a set of seven design principles that connect to the theoretical frameworks to the conceptual model and provide implementation strategies with examples of how we apply these design principles to a project-based STEM unit for 4–8 grade students. The design principles have implications for design of future project-based units and learning opportunities for teachers and students.
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Kharrazi, Ali, Shogo Kudo, and Doreen Allasiw. "Addressing Misconceptions to the Concept of Resilience in Environmental Education." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (December 9, 2018): 4682. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124682.
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Environmental education is shaped in response to societal and environmental realities and it reflects new interests and demands that enable sustainable transformations. In recent years, the concept of resilience has taken an increasingly significant role among practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and especially within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite its growing importance, the literature surrounding the concept of resilience has struggled to find a consensus on definitions and measurements and therefore may be easily misconceived. In this avenue, a consensus among varying perspectives of resilience may be better achieved by understanding the interaction between students’ prior knowledge (pre-conception) of resilience and the knowledge provided by educators. Based on the case study of five courses that teach the concept of this paper firstly identifies and discusses three common misconceptions among students, focusing on the concept of socio-ecological resilience. These include misconceptions to the value judgment, adaptability, and the costs that are relevant to the concept of resilience. Secondly, this paper discusses educational tools derived from scenario planning and theoretical foundations underlying empirical approaches to the concept of resilience, which may benefit educators in enabling critical thinking to address such common misconceptions. This paper may contribute to ongoing discussions in the environmental education literature, specifically to both pedagogy and curriculum focusing on the concept of resilience.
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Kim, Dong-Joong, Sung-Chul Bae, Sang-Ho Choi, Hee-Jeong Kim, and Woong Lim. "Creative Character Education in Mathematics for Prospective Teachers." Sustainability 11, no. 6 (March 21, 2019): 1730. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061730.
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This study examines preservice teachers’ perspectives of creativity and character education in mathematics through a university-based teacher education program. We developed a curricular unit on creative character education in a mathematics methods course and investigated participants’ (n = 56) emerging perspectives of teaching creativity and character by the integration of content and process in mathematics. Data were collected through pre- and post-questionnaires and transcribed course discussion and presentation sessions. A quantitative analysis of the questionnaires through a t-test confirmed key changes in participants’ perspectives, while the qualitative context of data illustrates the participants’ emergent views on creative character education in mathematics. Overall, findings suggest that a mathematics teacher education curriculum integrating mathematical creativity and character education has the potential to prepare future educators to implement pedagogy that bridges between process and content in school mathematics for the next generation of learners.
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Mohamed, Kamal Eldin, and Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan. "INCORPORATING SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES INTO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION: RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN STUDIO." Journal of Green Building 14, no. 3 (June 2019): 143–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618.14.3.143.
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Design is a structured process or a tactical guideline to accomplish a unique expectation of a product, while a design studio is the environment where students are taught the skills to design the product, which may be a building. Hence, the design studio course is the most important component of the architectural education curriculum; it is where the students get an opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge gained through lecture-based courses. Yet most theory is not put into practice; consequently, the principles of sustainable design solutions are developed. There is an urgent need to teach future architects how to integrate sustainable design principles into their projects in order to prevent or mitigate environmental degradation due to the negative impacts of building projects. This experimental study initiated a new design studio pedagogy and a novel teaching structure for integrating sustainability principles into the architectural design projects of 3rd year students. It also evolved a testing method to assess the success of the new pedagogy and the students' final design projects. This paper presents the results of the experimental design studio and delivers recommendations for subsequent sustainable design studio courses.
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Solís-Espallargas, Carmen, Jorge Ruiz-Morales, Dolores Limón-Domínguez, and Rocío Valderrama-Hernández. "Sustainability in the University: A Study of Its Presence in Curricula, Teachers and Students of Education." Sustainability 11, no. 23 (November 23, 2019): 6620. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11236620.
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This work forms part of the R + D + i ‘Training project in Spanish universities for professionals as agents of change in order meet the challenges facing society’ (Educación e Innovación Social para la Sostenibilidad (EDINSOST) 2017–2019). The purpose is to analyse the presence of sustainability in terms of curriculum content and training in competence for students, teachers and the curricula of Science of Education degree courses at the University of Seville. In this context, the curricula of the Degree in Early Childhood Education, Primary Education and Pedagogy have been analysed. Two questionnaires have been drawn up, and four reflection groups have been created—in which, a total of 49 teachers and 170 students have participated. The results show that there is a low presence of sustainability in Science of Education degree courses. The teachers express the opinion that they are engaged in sustainable initiatives and have an interest in ethical models. The students express a high degree of interest in receiving sustainability training. Findings provide information for introducing innovation into the university curriculum and the training of teachers and students in order to improve their competency in sustainability.
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Almeida, Sylvia C., Deborah Moore, and Melissa Barnes. "Teacher Identities as Key to Environmental Education for Sustainability Implementation: A Study From Australia." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 34, no. 3 (October 24, 2018): 228–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2018.40.
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AbstractThis article presents findings from a study that evaluated the impact of an Australian sustainability initiative, with a view to unravelling the realities of teachers’ implementation approaches. The paper outlines a study that reviews a government initiative in early years, primary and secondary educational settings that uses the Data Collection, Storage and Visualisations System (DCSVS) aimed at enhancing sustainability awareness and embedding sustainability as part of everyday practice in schools and early childhood services. It was also intended to offer school leaders, teachers and students avenues to engage with their consumption of natural resources. This in turn was anticipated to increase awareness about conservation, with the long-term aim to engage with the broader themes of sustainability. This article focuses on the role of teachers’ identities in enacting these policy initiatives. It highlights teachers’ enactment of the policies, the crucial role of school leaders in the process, as well as the deeper connections between curriculum and pedagogy.
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Hernández Abstengo, Damaris de la C. "ESTRATEGIA CURRICULAR DE EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL PARA LOS ESTUDIANTES DE LA CARRERA LICENCIATURA EN EDUCACIÓN PEDAGOGÍA-PSICOLOGÍA." Luna Azul, no. 46 (January 1, 2018): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2018.46.19.
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Zocher, Joella L., and R. Justin Hougham. "Implementing Ecopedagogy as an Experiential Approach to Decolonizing Science Education." Journal of Experiential Education 43, no. 3 (February 28, 2020): 232–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1053825920908615.
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Background: The field of environmental education (EE) aims to produce an environmentally literate citizenry that is not only aware of environmental problems but is motivated to work toward their solution. However, much of the U.S. EE curricular focus has been on understanding the biophysical environment with rural populations, with little discussion about the environmental problems created by the dominant Western cultural norms. Purpose: Freire’s ecopedagogical framework provides a framework for this discourse, yet there are few studies exploring how to put the theory to action. Experiential education’s principles of practice provide a platform to help environmental educators make this shift. Methodology/Approach: This mixed-methods participatory action research study includes observations, 71 document reviews, 29 interviews, and 15 surveys. Findings/Conclusions: This study presents two unique curricular interventions that aim to disrupt cultural patterns of environmental oppression through the use of ecopedagogy. Implications: This work expands on conclusions drawn in research by Smith and Segbers which recommended both transcultural pedagogy and a willingness to move beyond traditional models of curricula. Specifically, White environmental educators and researchers must rise to the challenge of adopting and innovating ecopedagogies that empower youth to explore solutions in their communities.
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de Beer, Josef, Neal Petersen, and Sanette Brits. "The Use of Puppetry and Drama in the Biology Classroom." American Biology Teacher 80, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 175–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2018.80.3.175.
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Teachers often wonder how best to teach the myriad of social and ethical issues that are encompassed in the biology curriculum. One can just think of issues such as genetic engineering, evolution (and the continuous evolution-creationism debate), research ethics (the haunting book The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks comes to mind), human population studies, health care and nutrition, sexuality and gender, drugs, environmental pollution, to name but a few. In this article we highlight the advantages of puppetry in the biology classroom, as an engaging pedagogy that could assist conceptual change in students. We explore the dual epistemological border-crossing that takes place in the classroom when puppetry is used: (a) the integration of societal and ethical issues within the biology curriculum, and (b) the infusion of art and drama within the natural sciences. We reflect on our own classroom action research on puppetry, and share our main findings. We also provide practical guidelines for using puppetry as pedagogy within a problem-based and cooperative learning setting.
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Rambaree, Komalsingh. "Environmental social work." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 21, no. 3 (February 8, 2020): 557–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-09-2019-0270.
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Purpose Environmental social work (ESW) is an approach and a perspective in social work focusing on ecological and environmental sustainability and justice within the context of sustainable development (SD). This study aims to analyse students’ reflective tasks on challenges for ESW education and practice from a critical theory perspective. The purpose of this study is to discuss the implications of the findings for accelerating the implementation of SD in social work curricula. Design/methodology/approach The research participants comprised 49 master level students from four different cohorts studying the course “Social Work and Sustainable Development” at the University of Gävle, Sweden. The sample comprised only those students who had completed at least one of the three non-mandatory reflective tasks that were set within the course. The reflective tasks of the research participants were gathered as data for this study. A qualitative methodological approach with the help of ATLAS-ti V8.4 was used to analyse the gathered data. Findings This study discusses three primary results, which are categorised as “Being Boxed”, “Safe and Saviour Sweden” and “Politics and Power”. Based on the results, this study argues for a transformative and emancipatory pedagogy (TEP) in the teaching and learning of ESW to accelerate the implementation of holistic SD within the social work curriculum. Research limitations/implications This study is mainly based on the analysis of “problematic” discourses of some of the students. The majority of the students and their respective discourses are not considered. Moreover, it would have been interesting, and probably enlightening to explore the background of the students (such as gender, ethnicity and religion) and any concomitant beliefs or prejudices (whether consciously held or otherwise) that would need to be addressed for an effective social work outcome. For ethical reasons, the background of the students was not recorded and analysed in this study. Practical implications Based on the results, this study argues for TEP in catalysing environmentalism within the social work curricula. Social implications Social workers have a political mandate from their professional ethics to work for the protection of the planet and for the well-being of all – including non-humans. This study therefore argues for ESW education within social work curricula in promoting SD through social work practice. Originality/value Within the context of SD, there is a global call for social work education to shift from an anthropocentric to an eco-centric paradigm. However, ESW education is still in its infancy stage and very few universities are focusing in this particular area. This study therefore brings an important and well-needed layer of empirical evidence in considering the implications for catalysing environmentalism within the social work curricula.
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Sarifuddin, Norshahida, Zuraida Ahmad, Ahmad Zahirani Ahmad Azhar, Hafizah Hanim Mohd Zaki, Amelia Wong Azman, and Norhuda Hidayah Nordin. "Modeling Humanizing Education Through Newly Reviewed Materials Engineering Curriculum." IIUM Journal of Educational Studies 9, no. 3 (November 30, 2021): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/ijes.v9i3.409.
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In line with the current global focus on sustainability and the well-being of the planet, becoming a professional engineer nowadays requires more than simple mastery of technical skills. Considering that engineers are required to have a deep sense of responsibility not only for humankind but also for the environment, engineering education and practices must be reformed substantially to prepare engineers that will contribute to sustainable development. This necessitates updating conventional engineering programs (CEE) to incorporate Humanizing Engineering Education (HEE). Although HEE is an old practice of individual engineers and other organizations outside the academic field, it is relatively new in academic engineering. While the definition of what truly merits being considered HEE remains debatable, many engineers believe that their work involves a humanitarian aspect. To streamline the development of HEE, there is a need for developing guidelines and frameworks for a comprehensive model. Ideally, that framework should integrate humanizing pedagogy in the new curriculum design. The objective of the paper is to share the experience of the authors in designing a new curriculum for a Materials Engineering Programme (MEP) that is embedded with Humanitarian Engineering (HE), which is among the main elements of HEE. Data collection was through interviews, qualitative surveys, reports from the stakeholders, accreditation bodies and benchmarking with other Higher Learning Institutions (HLI). An extensive scholarly literature review was executed to identify shortcomings in CEE and how it could be reformed by integrating it with HEE. The Sejahtera Academic Framework (SAF); a strategic framework for academic programmes developed by the university, was used as a reference to customize MEP to better meet students’ needs. Since the proposed model applies a new emerging concept, it inevitably raises challenges related to different levels of understanding among course implementers and perceptions of external stakeholders. Moreover, the developers had to consider the limitations imposed by the university's policies and structures while acknowledging the availability of finite resources (i.e. time, money, equipment, and expertise).
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Perez, Julianna, William R. Leonard, Virginia Bishop, and Leah C. Neubauer. "Developing Equity-Focused Education in Academic Public Health: A Multiple-Step Model." Pedagogy in Health Promotion 7, no. 4 (December 2021): 366–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23733799211045986.
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Education and training support public health practitioners in identifying and addressing challenges related to equitable health concerns. This article details a four-step Curricular Responsive Review Model (CRRM) generated by educators in a Council on Education for Public Health–accredited public health program to systematically understand and gather feedback on how to develop a responsive curriculum for their students. A review of all course syllabi was conducted by two faculty members and a doctoral student to identify curricular gaps and overlap. These findings, critical team dialogues, and a review of the literature informed the development of a survey to identify the health equity concepts and skills needed by MPH students. Community partners ( n = 4) responded to health equity education questions to detail the essential concepts and skills needed to teach students. Health equity educators (HEEs; n = 4) were then consulted on how to address knowledge gaps through pedagogy and educational resources. Community partners provided a list of areas that students should be educated in to enrich their health equity understandings. Recommendations were generated for integrating those concepts/skills into course teaching plans. The four-step CRRM in health equity education provides an opportunity for public health programs to engage in systematic mapping and critically reflective review processes to address curricular gaps and overlap. Mechanisms to receive real-world knowledge on health equity from a variety of stakeholders are essential to ensure real-word practical learning. The CRRM identifies systematic, responsive curricular mapping and review in public health as essential for meaningful, real-world equity education in disciplines beyond public health and health promotion.
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Shevock, Daniel J., and Vincent C. Bates. "A Music Educator’s Guide to Saving the Planet." Music Educators Journal 105, no. 4 (June 2019): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0027432119843318.
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As music educators, we always teach much more than the musical concepts and skills outlined in music curriculum standards. In this article, we discuss how music teachers can address what we believe is the most pressing issue of our time: environmental degradation. We first outline some specifics of ecological literacy in music education. This will include discussion of some songs that could form the center of a music curriculum for increasing ecological literacy. Next, we discuss cultivating ecological literacy using local musical practices and sounds of nature. Finally, we share an example of soundscape pedagogy aimed at increasing awareness of and propensities to care for the natural environment and ecological diversity. These components, singing, songwriting, and soundscape composition, are recommended as part of an overall creative pedagogical approach.
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Jónsson, Ólafur Páll, and Allyson Macdonald. "Pack for Sustainability: Navigating through Uncharted Educational Landscapes." Sustainability 13, no. 24 (December 8, 2021): 13555. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413555.
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The worlds of education and learning have for the last few decades been characterized by reactions to the detrimental human impact on the environment, which is measured on such a scale that scholars now refer to the present epoch as the Anthropocene. In order to develop ideas and practices that could guide us into place-based research and an emancipatory relationship between pedagogy and knowledge, the focus needs to shift from what to teach and why (Knowledge and Curriculum) and concern over how learning is evaluated (Assessment) to how we should teach (Pedagogy). The acronym PACK (Pedagogy, Assessment, Curriculum, and Knowledge) turned into the idea of packing for a trip into uncharted educational territory, taking with us several gadgets that might be useful. Our own journey emerged as a dialogue between a philosopher and a science educator. Building on experiences from global work to regional research and a university chairmanship for sustainability, we tried to pack some big ideas for educators to take along, helping them navigate the educational landscapes ahead.
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Bednarczuk, Beata Zuzanna. "Montessori Approach to Science Education: Cosmic Vision as a Unique Area of Pupils’ Studies." Edukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce 16, no. 3(61) (July 23, 2021): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35765/eetp.2021.1661.05.
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The paper aims at recalling Maria Montessori’s essential assumptions about the child development and organization of the educational process as a basic issue considering the concept of science education. In the Montessori pedagogy, it is characterized by the form of the so-called Cosmic Education. Cosmic Education is a unique approach to work with children aged 6 to 12. Thus, the idea of Cosmic Education, the relationship between the child’s needs and the science education curriculum is elucidated. The essence of the Great and Key Lessons as centers of children’s exploration and research is discussed. The Montessorian way of learning about fundamental human needs is presented as an inspiration for school practice. The basis for collecting empirical material is the analysis of the content aiming at the current achievements within the selected topic characterization.
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Mohamed, Kamal Eldin, and Soofia Tahira Elias Özkan. "Sustainable architectural design education: A pilot study in a 3rd year studio." Academic Research Community publication 2, no. 3 (December 18, 2018): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v2i3.354.
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A design studio is the heart and soul of the architectural education curricula where students learn to make repetitive design decisions that result in design strategies for resource use in order to create an environmental system that reacts to the human needs and requirements or solves existing problems. Integrating sustainability principles into the undergraduate design studio is an urgent need in order to teach young architects sustainable design principles that can stop the continued environmental degradation of the planet. This study proposed a new design studio pedagogy for integrating sustainability principles with a method to test the new pedagogy and the students’ final products. This paper presents the tests results of the pilot study and provides recommendations for the experimental design studio of the following semesters.
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Mishra, Richa, Shraddha Bhartiya, and R. L. Raina. "Towards transforming higher education institutions (HEIS) of India: An approach at JKLU, Jaipur on ‘curriculum’ & ‘pedagogy’." GYANODAYA - The Journal of Progressive Education 13, no. 1and2 (2020): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2229-4422.2020.00009.2.
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