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Green, Monica; Rayner, Michelle – Education 3-13, 2022
Despite teacher interest in wanting to engage students in learning beyond the classroom, many don't have the skills or confidence to do so. Drawing from an earlier study that examined outdoor, environmental and sustainability pedagogies across three Australian primary (elementary) schools, this paper presents and examines two teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness
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Ma, Hongming; Green, Monica – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
Despite being increasingly popular within broader educational discourse, place-responsive pedagogy is less apparent in science teacher education. This paper investigates the perspectives of pre-service teachers in a science education course informed by place-responsive pedagogy in a Bachelor of Education (primary) program at an Australian regional…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Outdoor Education, Science Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Power, Kerith; Green, Monica – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Australian curricula name "sustainability" as a key priority area with implications for preparing pre-service teachers. In the research that generated this paper, we asked: How can framing teaching through space and place inform pre-service teachers' pedagogical thinking and practice? In new third year Bachelor of Education (primary)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Sustainability
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Green, Monica – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2012
The "ecologisation" of Australian primary schools brings new opportunities for curriculum expansion and renewal for sustainability education. My contribution to the broader discussion of place, geography, sustainability and literacy stems from an interest in how children are brought into contact with sustainability discourses via sensory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Literacy, Environmental Education
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Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2012
The project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of research about place and sustainability education for the Anthropocene, the new geological age of human-induced planetary changes (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen, & Crutzen, 2010). The study investigated the location, nature and type of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Educational Innovation, Environmental Education
Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The development of sustainability literate teachers has been identified as a key challenge for the implementation of education for sustainability in Australian schools (Skamp, 2010) and elsewhere (Nolet, 2009). This paper reports on the first year of a participatory action research project that investigates the learning of school teachers, teacher…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research