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Walters, Shirley – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
Activism and engagement with real-world climate crises, within particular contexts, are prerequisites for learning about climate justice. I draw on my experience as an imbedded activist researcher living and learning through two recent 'crises' in Cape Town, to deepen my understandings of 'climate justice'. I followed a case study approach to…
Descriptors: Climate, Justice, Weather, Natural Disasters
Alexandra Schindel; Monica L. Miles; Kate Haq – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2023
In this essay, we argue for racializing approaches to teaching climate change to better understand and address climate injustices. We draw upon the example of the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022 which caused a disproportionate number of deaths in the Black community. Extreme weather events such as the blizzard highlight the ways in which climate…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Social Justice, Consciousness Raising
Myrstad, Anne; Hackett, Abigail; Bartnaes, Pernille – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children's movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow, as seasons, temperature, light, wind and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Kindergarten, Weather
Wang, Jing-Ru; Wang, Yuh-Chao; Tai, Hsin-Jung; Chen, Wen-Ju – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This study examined the differential impacts of an inquiry-based instruction on conceptual changes across levels of prior knowledge and reading ability. The instrument emphasized four simultaneously important components: conceptual knowledge, reading ability, attitude toward science, and learning environment. Although the learning patterns and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Scientific Concepts, Reading Ability, Language Proficiency

Watson, Jane M.; Kelly, Ben A. – School Science and Mathematics, 2005
This study uses the context of the weather to explore the development of students' intuitive ideas of variation from pre-Grade 1 to Grade 9. Three aspects of understanding these intuitions associated with variation are explored in individual videotaped interviews with 73 students: explanations, suggestions of data, and graphing. The development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Interviews, Weather

Bonk, Curtis Jay; And Others – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1996
The Indiana Weather Project (IWP) investigated how the joint application of situated learning and constructivist theory might support elementary school students' understanding of weather systems. Results indicated significant cognitive gains during the multimedia weather unit. (SD)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Programs, Educational Technology