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Babita Maharjan; Binod Prasad Pant; Niroj Dahal – Pedagogical Research, 2024
Place-based knowledge, a legacy from our ancestors, is inherently sustainable. However, modern lifestyles have eclipsed this wisdom, leading to environmental issues such as land and water pollution. Similarly, the current pedagogical practices often fail to connect place-based knowledge. It resulted in a deviation of students' contextual learning.…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Action Research
Medora West Willmore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Action towards planetary well-being requires more than environmental awareness, acquisition of knowledge, or technological fixes; it necessitates a sacred connection, recognizing interdependence, and an ethic that maintains dignity for all non-human beings. It requires a shift in our ecological consciousness from the dominator and exploitative…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Conservation (Environment), Learning Theories, World Views
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Raina, Jyoti – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
This paper is a reflective account of a travel that shifted the site of initial elementary teacher education from a metropolitan milieu of New Delhi; to the contrasting locale of a remote mountain region in the central Himalayas. This shift of site aimed to re-locate the concerns of quality schooling, diversity and ecological living to this new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Metropolitan Areas, Rural Areas, Teacher Education Programs
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Jackson-Barrett, Elizabeth M.; Lee-Hammon, Libby – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
In this paper, we present findings from an eighteen-month research project conducted in a remote community school in Western Australia. The data from this project includes documentation pertaining to the practices of educators engaging with Aboriginal Elders and children on Country. The aim of the project was to document the transformative…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations, Longitudinal Studies
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Haynes, Joanna – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
Family-focused community education implies a relational pedagogy, whereby people of different ages and experiences, including children, engage interdependently in the education of selves and others. Educational projects grow out of lived experiences and relationships, evolving in dynamic conditions of community self-organisation and…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Schools, Parent Participation, Age Differences
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Nampota, Dorothy – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
Integration of environmental issues in education is one approach to achieving sustainable development in Malawi and perhaps other countries. This paper analyses the integration initiatives in formal education including primary, secondary and university levels. The analysis is conducted with a view of identifying the successes and challenges. The…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Conventional Instruction
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory