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Kusmawan, Udan; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Reynolds, Ruth; Bourke, Sid – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
This paper describes an investigation of the interaction between teaching method and school locality in aligning student environmental beliefs, attitudes and intentions. Data for this study were collected from 236 adolescent upper secondary school students and chemistry teachers in Indonesia who were completing environmental topics from the local…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Munowenyu, Ernest – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2007
This paper explores "meaningful learning" as influenced by "constructivism." The study focused on assessing and comparing the quality of essays written by students who learnt a given topic in a classroom setting ("control") to those who learnt the same topic in the field ("experimental"). The objective was…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Classification, Essays, Secondary School Curriculum
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Halocha, John – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
Ongoing media coverage of the dangers of fieldwork and guidance from some teacher unions is placing fieldwork under threat in many English primary schools. Most teachers believe that fieldwork experiences are a valuable part of geographical learning, but how do children actually articulate the understanding arising from this? The research took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Field Trips, Ecology