NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Elementary and Secondary…3
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 36 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Sangster, Sarah L.; Loy, Kara L.; Mills, Sheryl D.; Lawson, Karen L. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
In 2014, the Undergraduate Research Initiative at the University of Saskatchewan implemented a pilot project to organize, support, and promote curriculum-based research experience as an integral aspect of participating first-year courses. The framework for the course-based initiative was the research arc; usually in groups, students in these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Research, Pilot Projects, College Faculty
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wiese, Nila M.; Sherman, Daniel J. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2011
This article describes and evaluates an interdisciplinary, experiential service-learning project that combined environmental studies and marketing courses at a liberal arts college over a 2-year period. The inherent tensions between these two disciplines regarding issues of environmental protection and conservation make this project's contribution…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Environmental Education, Pilot Projects, Service Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Eilam, Efrat; Trop, Tamar – Journal of Environmental Education, 2011
This article addresses issues regarding implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) within formal education systems. In particular, it seeks to identify the basic essential components of ESD pedagogy. The authors present a theoretical pedagogical framework based on accumulated theory and experience in the field. The framework…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Richter-Egger, Dana L.; Hagen, James P.; Laquer, Frederic C.; Grandgenett, Neal F.; Shuster, Robert D. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
The integration of student research into a general chemistry laboratory and an environmental geology course has been evaluated for its effectiveness to improve (i) student attitudes about science and chemistry, (ii) student understanding of the nature of experimental science and the scientific method, and (iii) student perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills, Science Laboratories
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bormann, Inka; Michelsen, Gerd – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article introduces a tri-national research and development project which aims to develop indicators for the cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary educational task "education for sustainable development" (ESD). These indicators are meant to help monitor the implementation of ESD efforts in schools and institutions of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Sustainable Development, Research Projects
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ogbuigwe, Akpezi – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2008
Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities Partnership (MESA) is a programme which grew out of the coming together, in 2004, of a number of African universities met with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNESCO and several African regional environment and education projects to assess the status of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hoare, Anthony; Cornell, Sarah; Bertram, Christopher; Gallagher, Karen; Heslop, Sally; Lieven, Nicholas; MacLeod, Christine; Morgan, John; Pickering, Andrew; Wells, Suzi; Willmore, Christine – Environmental Education Research, 2008
A team-taught interdisciplinary undergraduate unit in Sustainable Development has been developed and run over the past two years at the University of Bristol. This has been a unique initiative for this university to take. As in most other research-intensive higher education institutions, teaching generally follows rather traditional disciplinary…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Corcoran, Peter Blaze; Tchen, Richard – 1999
This paper reports on an ongoing process of identifying and meeting the professional needs of faculty in higher education environmental programs in the United States. It includes the self-reported strengths and weaknesses of environmental studies programs and the analysis of them by Kormondy, Corcoran, and Tchen (1997). It contains a descriptive…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Empowerment, Environmental Education, Faculty Development
Wiltz, L. Kate – 2001
This document contains the proceedings of the Teton Summit Conference for Program Evaluation in Nonformal Environmental Education. The Summit was co-hosted by the Teton Science School (TSS) and The Ohio State University with the goal of improving efficacy of evaluation in environmental education. Contents include: (1) What Is Evaluation? (2) For…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Metcalfe, Arnold – Bulletin of Environmental Education, 1982
Highlights project activities of the environmental education team at the park service in Warrington (England). Activities include visits to local schools and continuation of research and production of teacher resource materials. (JN)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
Slack, Georgia – American Education, 1974
A Florida Environmental Education Program wants students to know that ecological concerns are as close to home as the kitchen sink. (Editor)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Environmental Education, Field Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Thomas, Ian G. – Environmentalist, 1992
The term "environmental integrator" describes specialists with breadth in the field whose training involves the integration of knowledge with the teaching of problem solving. Questionnaire results of graduates and interviews of employers indicated that the Master of Environmental Science program at Monash University was effective in…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interviews
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3