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Skamp, Keith; Green, Jodie – Teaching Science, 2022
This paper, the second in a series of three, explores the representation of Earth System Science (ESS) in the Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2018a)) through the Cross Curriculum Priority area of Sustainability and the Australian Curriculum: Science (F-12), with a focus on F-10. Part I (in Teaching Science, 68.1) overviewed the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Earth Science, Science Curriculum, Sustainability
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Skamp, Keith; Green, Jodie – Teaching Science, 2022
This paper, presented in three parts, overviews the current understandings of the Earth System and the relatively recent interdisciplinary field of Earth System Science (ESS) from a school education perspective. The representation of ESS in the Australian Curriculum is explored through the Cross Curriculum Priority area of Sustainability and the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Giedre Kligyte; Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer; Jarnae Leslie; Tyler Key; Bethany Hooper; Eleanor Salazar – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The benefits of student-staff partnerships are widely reported in the Students-as-Partners literature. It is envisaged that partnership initiatives can have a transformative effect on institutional cultures, however, how this transformation might be achieved is less clear. Building on transdisciplinary and systems change perspectives, we propose a…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Systems Approach, Organizational Culture
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Bosevska, Julie; Kriewaldt, Jeana – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
This study reports on how one whole-school community in Melbourne, Australia fosters sustainable education (SE). The initiatives and frameworks put in place within one independent school were investigated using an in-depth case study drawing on observations conducted over 12 months. Whole-school events and four focus classes, one from each stage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
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Rockliffe, Andrew; Mckay, Jane – Research in Education, 2023
In this paper, we present a novel approach to defining, teaching, and assessing creativity by examining its origins and delineating the processes involved. The rationale for introducing this framework developed from studying existing thinking and questioning the current metrics for measuring creativity, which we posit are unfit for purpose. We…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Learning Processes
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Eaton, Andrew C.; Delaney, Seamus; Schultz, Madeleine – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
We report here a teacher action research project in which a Systems Thinking approach was implemented into a 15 h Depth Study for students in their final year of secondary chemistry. Students were introduced to the concept of Systems Thinking and the use of systems maps, along with the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Systems Approach, Secondary School Science
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Dickson, Anisah; Perry, Laura B.; Ledger, Susan – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
While the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme (MYP) is growing in popularity in Australia and across the globe, few studies have examined the benefits and challenges of this IB programme for supporting student learning. Using a qualitative case study design of three Australian schools that formerly offered the MYP, we investigated…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Barriers, Educational Benefits
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Kappler, Ulrike; Rowland, Susan L.; Pedwell, Rhianna K. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2017
Systems biology is frequently taught with an emphasis on mathematical modeling approaches. This focus effectively excludes most biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology students, who are not mathematics majors. The mathematical focus can also present a misleading picture of systems biology, which is a multi-disciplinary pursuit requiring…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Systems Approach, Mathematical Models
Ryan, John Charles – Online Submission, 2012
In 2011 the author taught, for the first time, the well-established unit CCA3101/4101 Environmental Humanities in the School of Communications and Arts at ECU (Edith Cowan University) in Western Australia. The unit has a 20-year history through associate professor Rod Giblett and parallels the development of the environmental humanities as a field…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Environmental Education, Humanities
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Denison, Tom; Kethers, Stefanie; McPhee, Nicholas – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2007
Within Australia there is a growing interest in e-research and the use of cyberinfrastructure. There is also increasing recognition that the use of cyberinfrastructure is often inhibited, not by technical issues, but by so-called "soft" issues, such as those related to work practices, intellectual property issues, the nature of research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Work Environment, Institutional Cooperation
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2005
For the twenty-eighth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Word Problems (Mathematics)