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Beer, David Löw; Holz, Verena – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2021
Within socio-economic transformation processes, the task of education is often reduced to short-term economic factors, that is, a suitable qualification profile of the local population. Transformative education should, however, be based on the broader claim that education contributes to successful transformation processes in the sense of…
Descriptors: Social Change, Transformative Learning, Environmental Education, Geographic Regions
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Nogales-Delgado, Sergio; Encinar Martín, José María – Education Sciences, 2019
Universities play an important role in society. On the other hand, more and more governments and international organizations are concerned about the environment. Thus, both in their educational programs and research, as well as in the case of public exhibitions, universities are increasingly including subjects related to the environment and its…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Fuels, Science Laboratories
Wallace, Dan – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2018
In the New England region, where temperatures range from below 0 to over 100 degrees, heating and cooling can present a major opportunity to improve sustainability statistics of a campus. Overt changes such as improving windows come to mind, but recent advancements in boiler technology and strategies for working with the heat of the sun and the…
Descriptors: College Environment, Heat, Climate Control, Equipment
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Nartey, Esther; Hanson, Ruby – Science Education International, 2021
The purpose of the study was to determine the perceptions that senior high school (SHS) chemistry students, and teachers have about organic chemistry as well as to compare organic chemistry topics that are difficult for students and teachers. Simple random sampling (lottery) and purposive sampling methods were used to select a sample of 100 SHS…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Elective Courses
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Adaeze, Chuku Princess – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
The Factories Act of 2004, the Employee Compensation Act of 2010, the Minerals Oil Safety Regulation of 1999 and the Harmful Waste Act of 2004 are pieces of legislation that included provisions for the safety, health and welfare of Nigerian workers beyond the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, and the Labour Act of 2004. This…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Wastes, Hazardous Materials, Fuels
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Azeem, Kiran; Nadeem, Wajiha; Zia, Afsa; Shehzad, Shiza; Anwar, Zara – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The goal of this study is to determine the impact of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) crisis on Student's Academic Life of Karachi Pakistan. This research helps in observing the behavior of students and their educational progress includes depression and anxiety, rate of absenteeism and undesirable results in exams threatens due to CNG crisis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fuels, Statistical Inference, Statistics
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Solli, Anne; Hillman, Thomas; Mäkitalo, Åsa – Research in Science Education, 2019
In this article, we argue that students' unfolding discourse on socio-scientific issues (SSI) can be fruitfully analyzed by using dialogical theories of language and communication (Bakhtin 1986; Linell 2009). While research in science education often reports on how individual reasoning changes when bringing SSI into the classroom, we argue for the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Thinking Skills, Discourse Analysis
Rovis, Sadegh Shattaly Nazhed; Sayadi, Saeed; Pourkiani, Masoud; Abbasi, Farzaneh Beikzadeh – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
Today, it is necessary to learn to manage and administer organizations based on values, which is also influenced by the culture and atmosphere of the organization. No comprehensive research has been done on organizational culture and personnel values. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical framework based on the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Organizational Culture, Guidelines, Employee Attitudes
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Scalabrino, Chiara; Navarrete Salvador, Antonio; Oliva Martínez, José María – Environmental Education Research, 2022
The evolution to a just, Low Carbon and Circular Economy could be accelerated if additional education and training professionals embraced the practical implications of terms such as Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) or for Sustainability (ES). Therefore, this study identified the numerous elements of Environmental and Sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Transformative Learning, Sustainable Development
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Grantham, Susan; Vieira, Edward T., Jr. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate ExxonMobil's social responsibility/social responsiveness (SR) communication to determine the company's social responsibility messaging in terms of the Social Responsibility themes of the Triple bottom Line Model (profit, people, planet) and to evaluate if the messaging changed in response to external…
Descriptors: Corporations, Social Responsibility, Organizational Communication, Administrators
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Kahl, David H., Jr. – Communication Teacher, 2018
Courses: Professional Speaking, Business and Professional Communication, Environmental Communication, or any course covering topics related to neoliberalism and the environment. Objectives: In this single-class activity, students will first examine the possible environmental effects of fracking near the Bakken Oil Formation in North Dakota.…
Descriptors: Fuels, Industry, Neoliberalism, Communications
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Sempier, Stephen H.; Swann, D. LaDon; Graham, Larissa; Hale, Christine; Maung-Douglass, Emily S.; Wilson, Monica; Bethel, Matthew; Plotkin, Pamela T.; Main, Martin B. – Journal of Extension, 2018
In response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed to answer oil spill-related scientific questions. However, peer-reviewed scientific discoveries were not reaching people whose livelihoods depended on a healthy Gulf of Mexico. GoMRI and the four Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant programs partnered to…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Private Financial Support, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Water Pollution
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Thomas, Denise – School Science Review, 2017
Derivation of an energy source from the movement of the tides is the reason for considering a lagoon to trap seawater in Swansea Bay. But while the professional engineers are investigating the possibility of that development, this student group has undertaken a study of the viability of developing biological sources of energy in this restricted…
Descriptors: Energy, Water, Natural Resources, Secondary School Students
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Shvets, Valeriy F.; Kozlovskiy, Roman A.; Luganskiy, Artur I.; Gorbunov, Andrey V.; Suchkov, Yuriy P.; Ushin, Nikolay S.; Cherepanov, Alexandr A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article analyses problems of processing black oil fuel and addresses the possibility of increasing the depth of oil refining by a new processing scheme. The study examines various methods of increasing the depth of oil refining reveals their inadequacies and highlights a need to introduce a new method of processing atmospheric and vacuum…
Descriptors: Fuels, Chemistry, Cost Effectiveness, Technology
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Wiyarsi, Antuni; Pratomo, Heru; Priyambodo, Erfan – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2020
The study aims to investigate the effect of context-based learning (CBL) on vocational high school students' chemical literacy of petroleum topics. Through quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest design, 30 students from the automotive engineering program were assigned as the experimental group, while 31 students from the same school…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Auto Mechanics, Comparative Analysis
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