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Vasilije Ivanovic – ProQuest LLC, 2024
We are becoming more and more aware of the marks our human existence is leaving on our global environment: the Anthropocene as discourse of that awareness is turning into a living and lived-in reality. I argue that such discourse cannot remain the purview of the natural and social sciences alone: culture must be recognized in its pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Fiction, Teaching Methods, Ecology
Valentine Ukachukwu Okwara – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
Understanding ecological concepts is crucial in tackling environmental issues like climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. These concepts also serve as a teaching framework, encouraging learners to effect positive change. This research was conducted with grade 9 learners from three schools in Bloemfontein, South Africa, randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Environmental Education, Climate
Yanchapaxi, María Fernanda; Liboiron, Max; Crocker, Katherine; Smiles, Deondre; Tuck, Eve – Curriculum Inquiry, 2022
The CLEAR lab is an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations. In this interview, María Fernanda Yanchapaxi and Eve Tuck speak with CLEAR lab founder, Max Liboiron, and co-investigators, Katherine Crocker and Deondre Smiles. Together, they explore Indigenous perspectives on climate…
Descriptors: Plastics, Pollution, Laboratories, Interdisciplinary Approach
Taylor, Lezly; Brand, Brenda – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2021
Luecha Ladachart, Manus Poothawee, and Ladapa Ladachart take a unique approach in their study entitled, "Toward a hypothetical place-based learning progression for haze pollution in the northern region of Thailand," whereby they frame acquiring disciplinary knowledge within a place-based learning progression in response to regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pollution, Place Based Education, Ecology
David Steele, Editor; Alison K. Mercier, Editor – Springer, 2025
This textbook provides K-12 science teachers and educators innovative uses of anchoring phenomenon-based teaching approaches from a justice-oriented lens (Morales-Doyle, 2017). It discusses topics such as the use of anchoring phenomenon-based pedagogies, qualities of productive anchoring phenomena and includes examples of unit plans that use…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Korfiatis, Konstantinos; Photiou, Maria; Petrou, Stella – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
This study investigates changes in children's environmental conceptions through their experience with the eco-animation "WALL-E." The study uses an analytical framework informed by Social Representations Theory, accompanied with a word association approach to collect data. A total of 84 children (35 nine-year olds and 49 twelve-year…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Animation, Children, Preadolescents
Yi, Xiaoming – Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
Drawing from contemporary Western theories of environmental esthetics and ancient Chinese esthetics of nature, the author proposes ecological education through esthetic engagement. Esthetic engagement removes the opposition between the esthetic subject and object and requires whole-body engagement with the natural environment. It provides an…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Ethics, Western Civilization, Asian Culture
Chang, David – Environmental Education Research, 2017
An efficacious response to the ecological crisis requires a thorough examination of our material entitlements and a willingness to reduce our ecological impact by diminishing current levels of consumption. Drawing on the example of air pollution in China, I present a case for the reduction of consumption and impact as a worthy outcome of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Place Based Education, Pollution, Foreign Countries
Karvánková, Petra; Popjaková, Dagmar; Mintálová, Tatiana – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2020
A case study entitled 'New Age Atlantis or Mysterious Seventh Continent' was developed as an exemplar model to show how the teaching methods and themes of Global Education (GE) can be used in geography lessons. The main intent of this article is to share an example of good practice about the use of this case study in geography lessons in Czechia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Global Education, Geography Instruction
Kabadayi, Abdulkadir; Altinsoy, Fatma – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2018
In the preschool period children develop rapidly in cognitive, social-emotional, physical, psycho-motor, language, and aesthetic areas. In this period, besides basic habits and skills, it is important for children to gain environmental awareness. Research shows that children are mostly affected by environmental problems. Yet, living in a clean and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Pollution, Conservation (Environment)
Kato, Moricmichi – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
We live in an age in which the destruction of the environment has become a major concern. However, until recently, environmental problems have not become a major issue for the philosophy of education. The reason for this is that for a very long time the philosophy of education was intimately related to the concept of nature as the foundation and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Postmodernism, Environmental Education
Benzer, Semra; Benzer, Recep; Birgül, Içten – Online Submission, 2018
A disproportionate increase in world population brings with its skewed urbanization and industrialization. This causes various environmental problems such as destruction of natural areas, environmental pollution, seasonal changes, global warming, ozone depletion. In addition, people's unconscious and unpredictable approach to the issue triggers…
Descriptors: Ecology, Preservice Teachers, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
Quintero Corzo, Josefina; Lopera Lopera, Catherine Julieth – International Education Studies, 2016
This piece of work gives account of a classroom research project done in a rural state institution in Colombia whose main purpose was to contextualize the foreign languages teaching and learning in line with the current curriculum regulations stated by the National Ministry of Education. Content-based instruction inside a rural English classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)

Viggiani, James C.; Viggiani, Linda J. – School Arts, 1972
A method of reclaiming" used glass bottles and jars by making them into useful objects. (RB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Ecology, Glass, Pollution

Bechtol, Bruce E.; Williams, Jerry R. – Journal of Geography, 1972
Various aspects of the litter problem can be manipulated in the classroom and in the field to effectively develop concepts of scientific method, information acquisition and recording, techniques of data analyses, means of classification and interpretation, and also to predict new problems and hypotheses. (Author)
Descriptors: Data, Data Collection, Ecology, Geography Instruction