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Download full textHeimlich, Joe E. – 1993
Learning activities in environmental education require the use of the physical environment or moving into nature and natural settings to explore issues of the environment. These approaches are sometimes labeled as "nonformal." This informational bulletin examines a taxonomy of four learning environments and explore the application of nonformal…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Independent Study
Kerka, Sandra – 2002
Teaching adults should be different if adults learn differently than children do. Theories or perspectives on adult learning, such as andragogy, make a number of assertions about the characteristics of adults as learners. If there are indeed distinctive characteristics of adults, on which claims for the uniqueness and coherence of adult education…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
