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Vincenza Ferrara; Flor Álvarez-Taboada; Gert-Jan Burgers; Eduardo Corbelle-Rico; Miguel Cordero; Eduardo Dias; Anneli Ekblom; Stefanos Georganos; Jeff Howarth; Maurice de Kleijn; Tommaso La Mantia; Niels van Manen; Giovanna Sala; Rafael da Silveira Bueno; Philip Verhagen; Anders Wästfelt – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
Current environmental crises call for an integrated knowledge of landscapes and their ecosystems in a broader sense. This article presents a pedagogical framework for cross-disciplinary landscape research at postgraduate level. The framework is grounded in the use of geospatial epistemic discomfort as a creative force to develop and enhance…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Ecology
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Everth, Thomas – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The climate emergency mandates a refocusing of society and education on the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. Emerging from decades of social constructionism that openly promoted climate science denial, social and educational theorising now engages with new materialist philosophies and the agency of matter. Physicist Karen…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Quantum Mechanics, Mechanics (Physics)
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Ngare, Innocent Osoro; Otieno, Dorcas Beryl; Ogutu, Emma Atieno; Omwami, Duncan Ondieki; Marang'a, Amos Atima; Otieno, Edwin Odhiambo; Gikonyo, Salome Wairimu; Opiyo, Lamech Owino – Educational Research and Reviews, 2022
Higher education institutions play a pivotal role in instilling green economy and sustainable development principles in students. There are complex environmental challenges, and breaking through this complexity necessitates the incorporation of green economy learning to assist students in understanding these complex connections. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Role, Conservation (Environment)
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Haak, David C.; Salom, Scott; Barney, Jacob N.; Schenk, Todd; Lakoba, Vasiliy T.; Brooks, Rachel K.; Fletcher, Rebecca A.; Foley, Jeremiah R.; Heminger, Ariel; Maynard, Lauren D.; McElmurray, Philip; Seo, Hye-Jeong; Sharma, Gourav – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Many graduate training programs in global change recognize the importance of policy and appreciate the complex, multi-stakeholder nature of policymaking in practice. However, few engage directly with diverse stakeholders, an important goal in transformational education, through traditional curricula. We present the results following analysis of a…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Graduate Study, Climate, Global Approach
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Bursztyn, Marcel; Maury, María Beatriz; Litre, Gabriela – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016
This article analyzes the process of institutionalizing interdisciplinary graduate programs in Brazil, which has over more than four decades of experience implementing masters and doctoral problem-oriented programs designed to operate outside the disciplinary structure of universities. Brazil has a high degree of centrality and government…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Case Studies, Governance
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Catherine Mobley; Cindy Lee; John C. Morse; Jeffery Allen; Christine Murphy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: The paper aims to report on the experiences moderating an interdisciplinary graduate-level sustainability seminar. Initiated in Fall 2002, the seminar has explored diverse sustainability topics and reached approximately 150 faculty and students. The paper describes how the course shaped participants' perceptions of sustainability and…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study, Seminars
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Barrett, M. J. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
Many environmental educators and philosophers have identified anthropocentrism and the socially constructed separation between humans and "the more-than-human world" (Abram, 1996) as primary root causes of current ecological devastation. This separation is embedded in Western schooling content and structures and is often unintentionally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Epistemology, Environmental Education, Educational Philosophy
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Biswas, Wahidul K. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how industrial ecology can facilitate the achievement of sustainable development through its incorporation into an engineering curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: A model has been developed for assessing sustainability learning outcomes due to the incorporation of the concept of industrial ecology…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Maturity (Individuals), Environmental Education, Ecology
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Moslemi, Jennifer M.; Capps, Krista A.; Johnson, Mark S.; Maul, Jude; McIntyre, Peter B.; Melvin, April M.; Vadas, Timothy M.; Vallano, Dena M.; Watkins, James M.; Weiss, Marissa – BioScience, 2009
Environmental problems are generally complex and blind to disciplinary boundaries. Efforts to devise long-term solutions require collaborative research that integrates knowledge across historically disparate fields, yet the traditional model for training new scientists emphasizes personal independence and disciplinary focus. Growing awareness of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Problem Solving, Higher Education, Environmental Influences
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Knudson, Kandace M.; Gutstein, Joyce; Evans, Emily R. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2011
Graduate students education is falling short of what the twenty-first century demands from its next generation of leaders; indeed, many educational leaders and scholars have called for graduate education to include richer, more relevant experiences (Stanton & Wagner, 2006; Stewart, 2010; Walker, Jones, Bueschel, & Hutchings, 2008). At the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Problem Solving
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August, P. V.; Swift, J. M.; Kellogg, D. Q.; Page, G.; Nelson, P.; Opaluch, J.; Cobb, J. S.; Foster, C.; Gold, A. J. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2010
Although there is considerable activity in developing assessment protocols for undergraduate learning, there are few established models for assessment of student progress in multidisciplinary doctoral-level graduate education. To resolve this impediment in tracking graduate student development, we created a simple assessment tool based on the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Student Evaluation, Ecology, Student Development
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Zurayk, Rami; El-Fadel, Mutasem; Nuwayhid, Iman – International Review of Education, 2010
The American University of Beirut's Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Sciences Program was launched in 1997 as a means of addressing salient issues on the environment and development in Lebanon and the Arab World using an interdisciplinary approach. The programme adopts a student-centred learning approach and aims to develop critical and systems…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills
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Tabucanon, Mario T. – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2008
The United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) has launched an initiative to build academic alliances among leading universities in the Asia-Pacific area to promote the sustainability paradigm in postgraduate education and research. The initiative, still in its formative stages, is called ProSPER.Net, which stands for…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hay, P. R.; And Others – Environmental Education and Information, 1986
Describes the transdisciplinary approach taken by the University of Tasmania's Center for Environmental Studies. Reviews the center's options for postgraduate degrees. Specifically explains the center's major course orientation, "Human in Environment," and outlines the difficulties in this type of approach. (ML)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
Linney, Grant – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
Over the past year, Andrea Foster reviewed a wide array of current and international research into the multiple, powerful and lasting outcomes produced through utilizing outdoor and experiential education (OEE) as a key learning methodology. As co-authors, Foster and Linney produced an 80-page document that reports the findings according to the…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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