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Ilkka Ratinen; Jubeen Sharbaf Kashani; Lassi Linnanen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Current environmental risks, such as climate change and nature loss, force us to look for solutions in every sector of society. A successful sustainability transition requires the manipulation of deep systemic leverage points. Hence, a deep leverage point framework based on sustainability competencies is needed to conceptualise sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Competency Based Education, Climate, Natural Resources
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Tasha Riley; Brittany A. McCormack; Troy Meston – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
Arts integration in core learning domains has long been acknowledged as an engaging and effective pedagogical approach. Creative activities encourage students to take risks, make mistakes, and consider alternative perspectives, promoting curiosity and developing problem-solving capacity. Arts integration is valuable in classrooms also for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Minority Group Students, Art Education
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Yuthana Autsadee; Thammawan Phanphichit – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: To explore the benefits and challenges of WBL in MET in Thailand. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative approach was used, involving interviews and surveys with participants from MET. Findings: WBL offers practical experience, improved employability, networking opportunities, and real-world problem-solving skills, industry knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Marine Education, Work Based Learning
OECD Publishing, 2019
Problems associated with the environment loom large over the future well-being of young generations. A previous issue of PISA in Focus (PISA in Focus 87) shows that in 2015 many 15-year-old students believed that the future -- their future -- was going to be worse, environmentally, than the present. In particular, only a minority of students…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Elliott, Sue – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
As the impact of humans on the Earth and on its ecological systems that sustain people become more visible--in terms of climate change, resource depletion, and species extinctions--so, too, it is becoming clearer that living sustainably is essential, not optional. To live sustainably requires a mind shift for many people. Education for…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Young Children, Climate, Sustainable Development
Malaspina, Mark; And Others – 1992
This report profiles 69 initiatives and programs from across the country that are effectively reducing smog, air toxics, and chemicals that destroy the ozone layer. Problem solving strategies range from community pressure forcing reduction of industrial emissions, to municipal governments promoting transportation alternatives, to adoption of tough…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Curriculum Development
Grossbach, Wilmar; Shaffer, William – 1974
One hundred and eighty school personnel held a workshop with representatives of the petroleum, natural gas, and electrical power industries. The objectives of the workshop were (1) to provide participants with a common body of knowledge and a common understanding of the energy crisis and its implications for the public schools, (2) to delineate…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Depleted Resources, Ecological Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Koster, Francis – 1977
The paper presents a review of literature on warnings of social crises and applies the literature to selected crises predicted in America's future. It is intended for use by futurists and policy makers as they devise ways to help society cope with crises. Warnings are interpreted as combining statement of a problem with proposal of a course of…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Data Analysis, Decision Making
Knight, C. Gregory; Wilcox, R. Paul – 1976
Emphasizing a problem-solving perspective, the document investigates the world food scene. Simply defined, the world food problem is the apparent inability of the world's people to feed themselves adequately and consistently. Intended for use by college level geography instructors as they develop courses on human uses of the environment, the…
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Eating Habits