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Fermín-González, Marlene; Echenique-Arginzones, Ada – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
The Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS) program is ever-increasingly being promoted in the field of early childhood education. This proposal is articulated with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and UNESCO's Education 2030 Agenda, which understands that children may learn and develop competencies on sustainability,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries
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Silva, Marta; Parra, Michel; Reyes-Arriagada, Ronnie; Brito, Jennifer – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Science camps for teachers have been held in Chile for several years and are recognized as important opportunities for continuing education, but they have been largely ignored as instances for impactful reflection on teacher self-assessment and identity. This article presents the analysis of teacher experiences at a science camp held in southern…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Collaboration
Noorani, Amjad, Ed.; Hussain, Nadeem, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2021
"Agents of Change" is a compilation of thought-provoking insights, opinions, personal stories, and suggested actions for change in the K-12 education system in Pakistan. It validates how good schooling can alleviate poverty and advance societal development through equitable opportunity for quality education. Clear and precise proposals…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty
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Jakobovich, Ronit; Shoval, Ella; Berry, Elliot M.; Shulruf, Boaz – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
This study aims to examine the effects of an intervention model, "Change Nutrition by Doing," in which children act as agents of change -- by 'doing' -- in taking responsibility for the contents of the lunch box they bring from home to consume at an early childhood centre. This quasi-randomised case-control trial consisted of 35 Israeli…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Intervention, Change Agents, Kindergarten
Birkeland, Åsta; Li, Minyi – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: Taking a particular example of an international partnership programme, this article aims to discuss kindergartens' participation in international partnership programmes as compelling vehicles for promoting "early childhood education for sustainability" (ECEfS). The partnership programme included Western Norway University of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Futures (of Society), Partnerships in Education, Kindergarten
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Liang, Jia; Mitchell, Tamra; Scott, Jay – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
Sixty-six school districts and more than 150 schools in the state of Kansas are participating in the Kansans Can Redesign Project. In this article, we present a case study of using Design Thinking as a systemic process to structure continuous school improvement. The collage of real-life scenarios presented in our case shows the integration of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Educational Improvement, Case Studies
Thomas, Barbara Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to discover and compare perceptions of three different groups of Indiana elementary educators concerning the importance of areas of the principal's literacy knowledge base, as well as responsibility for and use of this knowledge by principals to adequately support effective research-based literacy instruction. The…
Descriptors: State Standards, Change Agents, Specialists, Literacy