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Online Professional Development for Environmental Educators: Strategies to Foster Critical Thinking and Social Interactions
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DuBois, Bryce; Krasny, Marianne E.; Russ, Alex – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer opportunities for professional development of environmental educators globally, yet we lack understanding of participants™ cognitive and social learning processes and of how instructors can enhance these processes. Based on the Community of Inquiry framework, we used a survey and coded participant…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Philosophy, Education, and the Explosion of Knowledge.
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Van der Steen, Wim J.; Sloep, Peter B. – Interchange, 1993
The paper examines how teachers and students should deal with steadily increasing amounts of knowledge in the life sciences, explaining that students must learn to be generalists to some extent. It is important for students to know theories and rules as well as how to apply them. (SM)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Integration of STS into Science Education.
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Aikenhead, Glen – Theory into Practice, 1992
Outlines features and characteristics of science-technology-society (STS) science textbooks needed to implement an STS curriculum, noting STS science requires a fundamentally different approach to teaching science. The article refers to an STS science textbook currently being implemented in the tenth grade. (SM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Holistic Approach