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Walshe, Nicola – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Education for sustainable development (ESD) persists as an important concept within international policy and yet, despite considerable debate, there remains a lack of consensus as to a pedagogy for ESD in schools. This paper presents findings from a study investigating how an interdisciplinary approach to ESD in England developed one class of 16-…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Poetry, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Harmer, Nichola; Stokes, Alison – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
Project-based learning (PjBL) is argued to foster a more democratic approach to education, particularly through increasing students' autonomy over their learning. This article presents the findings of research into students' views relating to autonomy over topic choice and group constitution during a series of trial interdisciplinary PjBL…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Attitudes, Personal Autonomy, Active Learning
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Hill, Jennifer; Walkington, Helen – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
Graduate attributes are a framework of skills, attitudes, values and knowledge that graduates should develop by the end of their degree programmes. Adopting a largely qualitative approach and using semi-structured interviews, this paper outlines students' experiences at a national undergraduate research conference over three years and evidences…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Research
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Sönmez, Ömer Faruk – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
This study was conducted to reveal the perceptions of history, geography and social studies teachers giving the social studies lesson at primary schools in Turkey and Afghanistan towards the social studies lesson. The working group of the study involves history, geography and social studies teachers rendering service in Tokat and Kayseri provinces…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Teachers, Geography Instruction