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Bremer, Martin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Environmentally conscious science education is of great importance due to dramatic anthropogenic effects on the environment. The World Health Organization reports 25% of children deaths, ages five and under, are the direct result of pollution (Osseiran & Chirscaden, 2017). Anthropogenic climate change has resulted in the higher severity and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers
Lucille N. Gertz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The climate is in crisis. Many conservation organizations identify in their mission statements the priority of motivating constituents to engage with conservation action. This priority is typically implemented by educators who design and deliver educational activities and materials. This study, designed to develop a professional pathway for…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Teacher Role
Heinrich, Wendy Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Anthropogenic climate change and recreational use of coral reefs has led to the degradation of essential ecosystems globally. Over half of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed causing a loss in biodiversity due to overfishing, sea level rise, intensifying storm activity, and habitat destruction from human activity, making reefs one of the…
Descriptors: Climate, Natural Resources, Ecology, Biodiversity
Angela Helen Burgess – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The world faces an imminent environmental crisis, highlighting the role of effective Environmental Education (EE) in cultivating an environmentally literate society capable of making informed decisions regarding individual and collective environmental actions. A primary goal of EE is the promotion of pro-environmental behaviour, a complex outcome…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources, Intellectual Disability
Michael Weinstein – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is limited research examining the efficacy of online delivery for experiential, field-based, interdisciplinary coursework in environmental education geared towards undergraduate students, and how connection to nature can be understood through the theory of emerging adulthood. This research employed a convergent mixed methods approach to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Environmental Education, Undergraduate Students, Ecology
Williams, Riley Denae – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to evaluate how participation in a wilderness-based OAE program affected the environmental attitudes and feelings of self-efficacy in participants' ages 14 to 17-years-old. The findings indicated that the OAE program did not have a significant impact on the environmental attitudes of the participants. The program did,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Self Efficacy, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes
Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
Erin Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Environmental Education (EE) has an overall goal of fostering eco-literate citizens who are capable of building a more sustainable planet (North American Association for Environmental Education, 2019). While EE is associated with a plethora of benefits, it is still not widely implemented in the field of education due to the many types of barriers…
Descriptors: Teacher Workshops, Elementary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Experience
Monica Shire – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) addresses the issue related to children's screen time and indoor sedentary behavior. Research shows that young children need to have time outside in nature to ensure holistic development in the twenty-first century. The overarching goal of this work is to reduce the extent of children's indoor sedentary…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Universities
Sandra Ogechi Ajaps – ProQuest LLC, 2021
To improve environmental conservation efforts in Nigeria, environmental education content and practice need to be transformed to enable learners to study their own environments, share their knowledge, and generate conservation solutions. To achieve this, ten teachers, one researcher, and one educational technologist/research assistant engaged in a…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Participatory Research
Jamie Lee Taber – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Students with disabilities are struggling to meet expectations in science at the national and local level. Many studies have linked difficulties with science content to difficult and technical vocabulary, and this has been evident at the local level, too. To try to improve science instruction for students with disabilities, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Program Effectiveness
Crosier, Scott James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Given the current lack of connection between people and the natural environment, the goal of this research was to explore if and how an educational program could impact an individual's sense of place, and environmental stewardship attitudes and behaviors. To address this question, I examined these impacts with a cohort of participants in the UC…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Program Effectiveness, Conservation (Environment), Attitude Change
Fitzwilliams-Heck, Cynthia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Awareness of the sustainability of our natural resources is a continuing concern. Initiatives promoting environmental adult education (EAE) through professional development (PD) workshops ensure educators' have the knowledge and skills to inform their audience about environmental literacy and stewardship. However, these workshops have rarely been…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Adult Education, Professional Development
Fruend, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The people around us - as well as the methodical progression of education through content - often shape our relationship to the world. Currently, Earth is at a crossroads, which requires humans to act and live more sustainably with an intentional environmental ethos, whether for literal survival or for slowing Earth's resource degradation.…
Descriptors: Ecology, Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Consciousness Raising
Jackson, Luke M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed method study was aimed at examining the influence of dual processing (Type 1 and Type 2 thinking) on the development of high school students' nature of science (NOS) views. Type 1 thinking is intuitive, experiential, and heuristic. Type 2 thinking is rational, analytical, and explicit. Three research questions were asked: (1) Do the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction
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