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Villarino, Resti Tito; Villarino, Maureen Lorence – Online Submission, 2023
Biology education is crucial for living in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, disruptive, and diverse environment. Moreover, most literature suggested developing learning activities for students based on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills competency gaps. Thus, this study assessed the academic performance in terms of their examination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Junior High School Students
Ince, Ziya; Sahin, Vedat – Online Submission, 2021
One of the definitions of biodiversity, which has many definitions, is the differences between living things or the diversity of life forms in the world. According to another definition, biodiversity is a group of wholes formed by genes, species, ecosystems and ecological events in a region. The importance of biodiversity is gradually increasing…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Textbook Content, Biodiversity, Ecology
Erten, Sinan, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
Mankind could not exist without the earth to which it owes its life and could not have continued to exist to this day. This earth we call our world is an ecosystem. Mankind could not survive alone in this ecosystem. Mankind was able to continue its existence to the present day forming a whole with the other elements of this ecosystem. Aware of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Sustainable Development
Perez, Renante B.; Bua, Verlito E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2019
With the harsh environmental problems the world is experiencing today, it is high time to enhance environmental education offered by schools. Hence, the main goal of this research study was to determine the effectiveness of the integration of environmental education to formal basic education curriculum in the Educational District I, Schools…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Abdul Gafoor, K.; Jouhar Munavvir, T. – Online Submission, 2012
In a time of unprecedented, serious and ongoing threat of separation of education from nature, critical pedagogy is expected to play a constructive role in bringing education nearer to students' lives, environment and culture. This paper examines the extent to which students who have completed primary education by following the Kerala state school…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Familiarity, Knowledge Level, Ecology
Mifsud, Mark C. – Online Submission, 2012
There is a considerable body of literature on research on environmental knowledge, attitude and action. A lot of research has occurred on the primary and secondary school populations and the general population. However, much less emphasis has been placed on studies that concern post-compulsory education students in the range from 16 to 18 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Knowledge Level, Attitudes
Pilo, Miranda; Gavio, Brigitte; Scaldarella, Elda; Di Carlo, Caterina; Martorano, Daniela – Online Submission, 2011
"Discover Diversities" is a wide thematic developed within the SEMEP (South-Eastern Mediterranean Environmental Project) project, supported by UNESCO (United Nation Education, Science and Culture Organization). SEMEP is essentially a project for science education, focusing on Mediterranean environment. As the Mediterranean has been the…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Investigations, Educational Change, Cultural Background
Horsthemke, Kai – Online Submission, 2009
The world (Africa in particular) is in a progressive state of environmental crisis, caused by global warming, loss of biodiversity, human overpopulation, pollution, massive deforestation and desertification, urbanization and many other environmental problems and risk factors. For several commentators and theorists, part of the solution resides in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Biodiversity
Nuangchalerm, Prasart – Online Submission, 2008
This study aims to explore the ways to reinforce science learning through local culture by using Delphi technique. Twenty four participants in various fields of study were selected. The result of study provides a framework for reinforcement of science learning through local culture on the theme life and environment. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Reinforcement, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Stepath, Carl M. – Online Submission, 2009
Our future leaders' environmental understanding improves their resource management skills and decision-making capacity. Community awareness and "hands-on" involvement preserves bio-diversity and addresses human impacts. This report discusses the importance of environmental education, and effective learning programs. Quality education in…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development
Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs
Yorek, Nurettin; Aydin, Halil; Ugulu, Ilker; Dogan, Yunus – Online Submission, 2008
In this study, pupils' constructions of some concepts related to biodiversity like classifying living things, variation in living things and ecosystem elements, and the concept of life were investigated in the light of constructivist theory of learning. For this purpose, a biological diversity conceptual understanding test formed by a series of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Styles, Student Attitudes, Ecology