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Accioly, Inny; Alcântara, Benedito; Monteiro, Aldineia Fernandes; Monteiro, Aldenice – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
The research seeks to collaborate to advance the debate on the intertwining between Ancestry, History, and Environmental Education. It analyzes the pedagogical experience developed by the authors in the project "Young Environmental Guardians from Riverside Communities", which takes place in the Brazilian Amazon. The project's purpose is…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries, American Indians, History
Adams, Erin C.; Varga, Bretton A. – Geography Teacher, 2023
Minerals and metals are part of everyday existence, including in the air people breathe. They are either in, or have a hand in creating, nearly all of consumer products. As essential as they are, minerals and metals are too often unseen, unappreciated, and unnoticed. In the teaching of preservice primary and secondary teachers as well as high…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Inquiry, Mining, Metallurgy
Hann, Deborah G.; Hagelman, Ronald R. – Journal of Geography, 2021
A rich pool of geographic and environmental ideas are embedded children's literature. This paper illuminates the geographic and environmental education themes present in second to eighth grade Common Core fiction, especially for leveraging this content for geographic and environmental education and in support of topically integrated learning…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Geography, Geography Instruction, Environmental Education
Mahat, Hanifah; Norkhaidi, Saiyidatina Balkhis; Saleh, Yazid; Hashim, Mohmadisa; Nayan, Nasir; Said, Zahid Mat; Matnoor, Marlianah; Hamid, Nur – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
In this study, we aimed to determine the extent to which secondary school students practise environmental ethics. To this end, we used a questionnaire-based survey to accomplish the purpose of the study. The study's variables included knowledge, value, care, and responsibility in environmental ethics. We selected a sample of 180 students using…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Conservation (Environment), Consciousness Raising, Ethics
Yazici, Öznur – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
Freshwater, which is present on land, is covered in Hydrography issues within the field of Geography. Hydrography course helps students to understand and interpret the mechanism, importance, distribution, relationship with other earth systems and living life. The importance of freshwater resources, which have been affected by climate changes or…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Biodiversity, Conservation (Environment), Natural Resources
Nurbanu Sapanova; Stephen Cessna; Lisa M. DeChano-Cook; Dzhumadil Childibaev; Nuri Balta – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
This study aims to investigate Kazakhstani high school students' environmental knowledge, attitude toward the environment, environmental awareness, and environmental concern, and to present the effect of various extracurricular activities on high school students' knowledge, attitude, awareness, and concern. We surveyed 124 students at various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Knowledge Level, Conservation (Environment)
Sue Rodway-Dyer; Stewart Barr – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to discover the impacts of taught environmental sustainability-focused geography postgraduate programmes on student attitudes, behaviours and practices in relation to environmental awareness within two research-intensive universities in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: A case study involved online…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Geography
Carrera, Carlos Carbonell; Perez, Jose Luis Saorin; Cantero, Jorge de la Torre – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
In the field of geographical and environmental education, maps and geo-referenced information are frequently used, in which the earth's surfaces are represented in a two-dimensional (2D) way. Students have difficulty interpreting the relief representation and switching between 2D and 3D scenarios. Digital terrain modelling is added to the…
Descriptors: Usability, Visualization, Teaching Methods, Maps
Yeseraw, Abebe; Melesse, Tadesse; Kelkay, Asrat Dagnew – Cogent Education, 2023
This study investigated the inclusion of indigenous knowledge (IK) in the Amhara Region's new primary and middle school textbooks in a trial. For this purpose, book reviews of the three purposely selected primary and middle school textbooks were made. Besides, data were collected from 372 teachers and interviews were also made with 28 sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Hsiao-Ping Hsu – Geography Teacher, 2024
According to the author, this innovative lesson plan incorporates virtual reality (VR) technology to foster environmental awareness and care in late primary-age students. Drawing on the place-based education approach and social constructivism in the lesson design, students participate in collaborative project-based learning. The students' task…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students, Lesson Plans
Henderson, Joseph A.; Zarger, Rebecca K. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Drawing a causal line between educational practice and ecological impact is a difficult intellectual task given the complexity of variables at work between educational event and ecological effect. This is further complicated by the anthropological fact that diverse peoples interact with nature in myriad ways. Our environmental interactions are…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Environmental Influences, Environmental Education, Anthropology
Paunescu, Florina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2016
This paper presents my experience in bilingual teaching, an integrated programme for geography and English language learning for upper secondary students. General geographical aspects are connected to the geography of Great Britain and that of the USA, with an attitude of raising students' awareness on environmental issues. The topics are a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography, Geography Instruction, Bilingual Education
Casinader, Niranjan; Kidman, Gillian – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
Common notions around the concept of sustainability tend to be framed within the values and principles that the world's natural environments need to be used and managed in such a way as to make them available for future generations. Consequently, pedagogical approaches in environmental education that follow this intellectual thread tend to adopt a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Geography, Inquiry
Rey-Goyeneche, Jennifer A.; Alexander, Patrick – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
By analysing an academic exhibition on the Amazon region made by Year 5 children from an Oxford-based primary school, this qualitative study explores the ways that children perceive a representation of a natural environment geographically distant from their home context. The phenomenographic analysis of written and visual documentary sources…
Descriptors: Environment, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Exhibits
Amin, S.; Sumarmi; Bachri, S.; Susilo, S.; Mkumbachi, R. L.; Ghozi, A. – Online Submission, 2022
Students need to possess sensitivity to the environment in order to behave positively when they notice a problem and find the right solution. This study intends to investigate whether the PBHL model affects the environmental sensitivity of Social Science Education students on environmental issues and conservation materials. The quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education