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Bueddefeld, Jill; Ostrem, Julie; Murphy, Michelle; Halpenny, Elizabeth; Orr, Brian – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and 'pet' bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Program Effectiveness, Sustainability, Citizen Participation
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Barrett, M. J.; Harmin, Matthew; Maracle, Bryan; Patterson, Molly; Thomson, Christina; Flowers, Michelle; Bors, Kirk – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Using the iterative process of action research, we identify six portals of understanding, called threshold concepts, which can be used as curricular guideposts to disrupt the socially constituted separation, and hierarchy, between humans and the more-than-human. The threshold concepts identified in this study provide focal points for a curriculum…
Descriptors: Action Research, Environmental Education, Transformative Learning, Sustainability
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Garson, Kyra; Bourassa, Emma; Odgers, Todd – Intercultural Education, 2016
This paper describes faculty perceptions of the impacts of a professional development (PD) programme for faculty called Interculturalising the curriculum. Over 70 faculty members have participated since 2008. Participants in the study represented four cohorts from 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, from a broad range of academic disciplines. We begin with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development