This dissertation explored the roles schools can play in the successful outcomes of large carnivore or keystone reintroduction projects. Schools are more than centers for knowledge acquisition--they connect their community and disseminate information quickly to a wide audience. This study took place in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, a…

Argues that, despite decades of increasing scientific evidence on the public awareness of the state of the environment, the secondary education curricula has failed to respond. Discusses a back-to-basics model of secondary education. (CCM)

Asian countries are charatericised by great variations in their human and economic development indices. Malaysia is no different, and before learning takes place, one has to deal with the diversity and complexity of audience and the range of environmental issues. This article aims to highlight the response of citizens towards the United Nations…

Investigated was the relationship of environmental education to ecological education, outdoor education, conservation education, environmentalized education, and general education. Goals selected from the literature were analyzed to obtain 60 goals representing each of the 6 areas. Using a Q-sort procedure, 65 selected individuals, representing…

This guide for teacher inservice training is focused on the concept of Ekistics--the study of man in his environment. The strategies presented are based on generic inservice culminating in a management planning model, purposefully generic to all inservice and intended to add support to the personnel who would be designing inservice. The steps to…

Summarizes research information reported on the topic of environmental studies at the college level, profiling historical and theoretical developments, discussing the problem of discipline-oriented versus interdisciplinary-oriented program development. Studies selected were chosen as representative and reflective of the variety of current…

The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary curriculum at the experimental high school on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel, is described. It is viewed as a worldwide model available to academic communities to study the impact of environment on survival of all living things. (MP)

This game simulates land use planning to meet continually changing national needs for timber, recreation, and other forest resources. The game condenses 75 years of the future of the hypothetical "Mystic Mountain National Forest" into four hours of playing time. (Author/RE)

These materials are the result of a summer curriculum development workshop during the summer of 1973. The participants purposely represented several subject disciplines and grade levels to give credence to the philosophy of environmental education as an interdisciplinary study that permeates all areas of the curriculum, kindergarten to grade…

Six environmental education simulation games are presented in this manual, developed by Project SESAME G (Susquehanna ESEA Synergetic Activities for Maximal-involvement via Education Games). The simulations are models of social situations which provide an opportunity for social interaction in the classroom, maximize student involvement, and change…

Due to the excitement and enthusiasm shown by teachers, students, and community members participating in a summer school program, the Novato Unified School District, California, has compiled this sourcebook to guide others in developing a similar program. In 1969 and 1970 the school district established a multi-graded conservation education summer…

In the speech the main point is made that the human ecosystem of the world is subject to scientific inquiry and as a consequence a new way is needed to view the planet earth. Three sets of facts have now been established concerning the earth and its inhabitants: 1) the earth and its life forms constitute a system; 2) the many sub-systems of life…

This generic model is intended to provide a rationale and conceptual basis for thinking about and understanding the institutionalization of environmental education. To achieve this purpose, the document: (1) broadly defines EE; (2) presents a systems view of formalized education; (3) presents a view of EE contextualized in the formal education…

Describes the computer-assisted environmental-educational game TERRA, which is designed to encourage lower-ability high school students to think at their own level about the future of their world. Based on "The Limits to Growth" (Meadows et al., 1972), the game comprises four programs: Terra Firma, Terradactyl, Inflation, and Doubles.…

Designed to provide assistance to natural resource managers in the preparation of conservation educator programs and materials, this manual describes specific procedures for developing programs that would have significant environmental impact. Five steps are identified and explained under separate chapter headings. Each chapter concludes with a…