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Jaelyn deMaría; Karen Roybal – Communication Education, 2024
Place-based education is pedagogy rooted in local landscapes, community experts, and embodied communication. This essay explores the authors' initial findings from a two-year pilot project that connects students from the University of New Mexico and students from Colorado College in a multisite field experience connected to the Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, College Students, Field Experience Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Maura C. Flannery – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Herbaria, collections of preserved plant specimens, have existed for 500 years as repositories of information about plants. Many of these collections are now being digitized, making them available to a much broader audience including students and teachers. Specimens can be used in a variety of different contexts in teaching biology, including from…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Science History, Biology, Science Instruction
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Beasley, Kimberley; Hesterman, Sandra; Lee-Hammond, Libby – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
Environmental education across the early years has become increasingly important in Australia since the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum. These documents promote a connection to nature for young children as well as environmental responsibility. In Western Australia, large areas of natural…
Descriptors: Botany, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
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Marleine Gélineau; Constance Russell; Lisa Korteweg – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
"Invasive" species are generally viewed with contempt. Yet many Indigenous peoples have more nuanced approaches to newcomer species informed by kinship relations, and some ecologists suggest that ecosystems have always been dynamic and these species occasionally play beneficial roles in their new homes. A critical and decolonial…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Decolonization, Canada Natives, Land Settlement
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Kate Haq; Monica Miles; Ann Ditto – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This program evaluation outlines the process, challenges, and outcomes of decolonizing middle school curriculum through an interdisciplinary approach. A diverse team of educators conducted a curriculum audit and restructuring initiative in a Western New York independent school. Faced with data analysis challenges, the team devised an Environmental…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Environmental Education, Social Justice, Decolonization
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Erin Sperling; Hilary Inwood; Laura Sims; Paul Elliott – Canadian Journal of Education, 2025
As teacher education can help communities transition to sustainable, just ways of being, this study reports on the development of, and research on, a national E-course for preservice teachers focused on Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE). This collaborative initiative brought together academics, community educators, and K-12 teachers…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Justice, Preservice Teacher Education
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Monika Stelzl; Lynnee M. R. Pevie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In this collaborative professor-student contribution, an experiential nature-based university psychology course is described and discussed. Existing scholarship on experiential environmental education informed the course, with the overall aim of educating the "whole student". Experiential environmental education has been identified as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education
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Li, Wei-Ting; Shein, Paichi Pat – Environmental Education Research, 2023
The life experiences of Indigenous students are often overlooked in school learning, thereby causing dissonance in learning. To address this issue, this study incorporated local and traditional ecological knowledges of community in this year-long course of 'place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development', using place-based design…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Teacher Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Kinch, Rosemary A.; Bobilya, Andrew J.; Daniel, Brad; Duncan, Sara – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2022
Indigenous storytelling is a transaction between narrators and audiences that can be expressed through Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). TEK narratives, such as those of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), can demonstrate ecological literacy by empowering audiences to co-create their engagement with the local environment of that…
Descriptors: American Indians, Story Telling, Indigenous Knowledge, Audience Awareness
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Aikens, Kathleen; McKenzie, Marcia – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The aim of this study was to better understand how Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) policy has been developed and mobilized across subnational contexts in a federated system. We undertook a comparative analysis of sustainability-specific policy and curricula documents from all Canadian provinces and territories. We identified three…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Education, Educational Policy, Sustainability
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Julie Ernst; Claire Underwood; Thelma Nayquonabe – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2024
Responding to a growing call for culturally sustaining pedagogy, this article describes a Community of Practice (CoP) project in Minnesota. Guided by two Indigenous mentors, a cohort of 15 Indigenous and Non-Indigenous educators engaged in collective inquiry regarding how Indigenous histories, worldviews, and learning approaches can become part of…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Personnel, Early Childhood Education
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Sharma, Namrata – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
Several recent scholarly works have challenged the Western dominated paradigm underlying the UNESCO-led agenda of global citizenship education. This includes the heavy influence of Enlightenment liberalism. Further discussions must also be centered on integrating non-Western perspectives so that the practice of global citizenship has a more…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Western Civilization
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Robertson, Patrick; VanWynsberghe, Robert; Ford, Bruce – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
With the recent and dramatic changes to our K-12 curriculum in British Columbia (B.C.), there is an essential need for pre-service teacher education to lead the transformation of practice in our schools and communities. Education with sustainability as a core foundation is also gaining traction in B.C. and around the world. At the University of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lal, Aparna; Walsh, Erin I.; Wetherell, Alice; Slimings, Claudia – Environmental Education Research, 2022
The importance of a safe climate for human health is recognised by healthcare professionals, who need to be equipped to deliver environmentally sustainable healthcare and promote the health of natural systems on which we depend. The inclusion of climate-health in Australian and New Zealand accredited master-level public health training and medical…
Descriptors: Climate, Public Health, Medical Education, Barriers
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Mueller, Michael P.; Bentley, Michael L. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2009
Curriculum reform in environmental and science education now taking place in Ghana focuses on the community and ecosystems as the context of education. In Ghana, students conduct science investigations that include games, word searches, crossword puzzles, case studies, role play, debates, projects, and ecological profiles. This curriculum reflects…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Play, Environmental Education, Ceremonies
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