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Nature Connectedness and Landscape Preferences of Turkish Preservice Preschool Teachers
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Yilmaz, Simge; Olgan, Refika; Yilmaztekin, Elif Öztürk – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The current paper had two aims, first to investigate Turkish pre-service preschool teachers' perceptions of different kinds of landscapes that can be used to achieve their educational goals, their ideas about the characteristics of these settings, and the contribution to children's education, the resource needs, motivations, and barriers they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education, Universities
Predictors of the Perceived Importance of Food Skills of Home Economics Teachers
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Fordyce-Voorham, Sandra P. – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test an hypothesis that teachers' personal orientations toward food preparation, nutrition and environmental issues would be related to their perceived importance of food skills. Design/methodology/approach: Little research has been conducted on home economics teachers' views on the importance of the food…
Descriptors: Home Economics Education, Food, Teacher Competencies, Hypothesis Testing
Original Language Subtitles: Their Effects on the Native and Foreign Viewer
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Kruger, Jan-Louis; Doherty, Stephen; Soto-Sanfiel, María-T. – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2017
This study investigates the impact of same-language subtitles on the immersion into audiovisual narratives as a function of the viewer's language (native or foreigner). Students from two universities in Australia and one in Spain were assigned randomly to one of two experimental groups, in which they saw a drama with the original English…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries
Herbs versus Trees: Influences on Teenagers' Knowledge of Plant Species
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Lückmann, Katrin; Menzel, Susanne – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
The study reports on species knowledge among German adolescents (n = 507) as: (1) self-assessed evaluation of one's species knowledge; and (2) factual knowledge about popular local herbs and trees. Besides assessing species knowledge, we were interested in whether selected demographic factors, environmental attitude (as measured through the New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plants (Botany), Adolescents, Knowledge Level
Understanding the Relationship between Christian Orthodoxy and Environmentalism : The Mediating Role of Perceived Environmental Consequences
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Truelove, Heather Barnes; Joireman, Jeff – Environment and Behavior, 2009
The present study evaluated the hypothesis that people who strongly adhere to Christian orthodoxy may be less proenvironmental to the extent that they are less aware of the biospheric consequences of environmental problems (biospheric AC) but that they may be more proenvironmental than others to the extent that they are more aware of the egoistic…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Environment, Christianity, Beliefs
Environmental Volunteering and Health Outcomes over a 20-Year Period
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Pillemer, Karl; Fuller-Rowell, Thomas E.; Reid, M. C.; Wells, Nancy M. – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose: This study tested the hypothesis that volunteering in environmental organizations in midlife is associated with greater physical activity and improved mental and physical health over a 20-year period. Design and Methods: The study used data from two waves (1974 and 1994) of the Alameda County Study, a longitudinal study of health and…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Physical Health, Depression (Psychology)