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The Girl with the Garden Gloves: Researching the Affordances of Sensual Materialities in the School Garden
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Hipkiss, Anna Maria; Windsor, Sally; Sanders, Dawn – Ethnography and Education, 2020
This article uses vignettes and photographs taken from ethnographic research to reframe the methodological assumptions within school garden research. New theoretical perspectives are applied to previous empirical school garden research that provides deeper understandings of both the teaching and the learning of ecoliteracy in such material…
Descriptors: Gardening, Vignettes, Photography, Ethnography
Children's Learning for a Sustainable Society: Influences from Home and Preschool
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Borg, Farhana; Winberg, Mikael; Vinterek, Monika – Education Inquiry, 2017
Although parents and preschool play important roles in developing children's behavior and attitudes, little is known about their influences on children's learning of environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability. This study investigated the influences of home- and preschool-related practices and factors on children's declarative and…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Educational Environment, Preschool Education, Learning Processes
The University and Transformation towards Sustainability: The Strategy Used at Chalmers University of Technology
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Holmberg, John; Lundqvist, Ulrika; Svanstrom, Magdalena; Arehag, Marie – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the strategy used for achieving change towards sustainability at Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers). Examples of how this strategy has been used are described and discussed, and exemplified with different lines of activities in a project on Education for Sustainable Development, the ESD…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Administrative Organization, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods
Embedding of ESD in Engineering Education: Experiences from Chalmers University of Technology
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Svanstrom, Magdalena; Palme, Ulrika; Wedel, Maria Knutson; Carlson, Ola; Nystrom, Thomas; Eden, Michael – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on methods developed, within a three-year Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) project at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, to achieve a higher degree of embedding of ESD in engineering programmes. The major emphasis is on methods used, results achieved and lessons…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Engineering
Participation, Value Rationality and Mutual Learning in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production for Sustainable Development
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Polk, Merritt; Knutsson, Per – Environmental Education Research, 2008
Given the complexity of current social structures and environmental problems, attaining a truly sustainable society seems rather improbable today. Not only has society not been planned for the complexity of the preconditions and effects that sustainability entails, sustainability is also unlikely given current individual consumption patterns,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Change, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Exploring Students' Learning Challenges in Environmental Education
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Rickinson, Mark; Lundholm, Cecilia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
There is growing recognition of the significance of learning within debates about sustainable development. Within the field of environmental education research, however, there has been insufficient attention given to questions of learners and learning. In the light of this situation, this paper reports findings from two studies (one in England,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development