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Partoune, Christine; Grodos, Anne-Catherine; Bernard, Hervé; Meunier, Gilles – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Belgian primary schools very rarely adopt an outdoor learning approach. Yet most geography and science teacher trainers involved in pre-service teacher training see the environment around schools as a resource on which to develop learning in all disciplines, and a place to develop environmental and eco-citizenship education. Training teachers to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Environmental Education, Outdoor Education
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Park, Byung-Yeol; Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca; Campbell, Todd; Cooke, Hannah; Arnold, Chester; Volin, John C.; Chrysochoou, Maria; Diplock, Peter C. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide instructional guidance for students' engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals of this research were to: (1) understand how an epistemic community (the people designing and leading courses and programs) viewed the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Ruiz-Mallén, Isabel; Satorras, Mar; March, Hug; Baró, Francesc – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Grassroots initiatives towards climate resilience in cities are likely to embed environmental education practices with potential transformative impact among young people. Through interviews and document review, we examine two initiatives involving different non-formal educational actions in Barcelona: a civic ecology practice based on the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Environmental Education, Personal Autonomy, Urban Areas
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Kricsfalusy, Vladimir; George, Colleen; Reed, Maureen G. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Improving student competencies to address sustainability challenges has been a subject of significant debate in higher education. Problem- and project-based learning have been widely celebrated as course models that support the development of sustainability competencies. This paper describes a course developed for a professional Master's program…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Environmental Education
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Portman, Michelle E.; Teff-Seker, Yael – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Despite the potential environmental impact of urban planning, there is little research on Environmental Education (EE) in the context of urban planning curricula. This study follows graduate planning students' learning experience during group projects assigned as part of a planning course at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology. These…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Environmental Education, Service Learning
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Schneller, Andrew Jon – Environmental Education Research, 2008
This article reports on a longitudinal study of a two-semester middle school environmental learning course that departs from traditional Mexican expository pedagogies through the incorporation of experiential and service learning approaches. In the short term, course participants acquired a heightened awareness of environmental issues, augmented…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education