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Tas, Maarten; Fleming, Margaret; Dawson, Richard – School Science Review, 2019
This article describes how a homework task on climate change is being developed as part of a larger project on sustainability issues -- Urban Science. The ultimate aim of this European project is to improve the teaching of scientific enquiry so that students develop the competences to actively contribute to creating sustainable cities, to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Climate, Change
Drewes, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to investigate science teacher identity development as climate change educators. In applying the theoretical construct of identity as narrative to investigate the climate change related instructional experiences, I posed the overarching question: How do teachers' lived experiences shape their science teacher identity…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Climate, Change, Environmental Education
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Bryce, Tom G. K.; Day, Stephen P. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
This article looks critically at the complexity of the debate among climate scientists; the controversies in the science of global temperature measurement; and at the role played by "consensus." It highlights the conflicting perspectives figuring in the mass media concerned with climate change, arguing that science teachers should be…
Descriptors: Climate, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Measurement
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Boakye, Cecilia – SAGE Open, 2015
The study found out the role that some selected science curricula of the pre-tertiary level of education in Ghana played with respect to climate change education. Content analysis was used to analyze four science curricula of the pre-tertiary levels of education in Ghana, namely, the curriculum for primary, Grades 1 to 3 (age = 6-9 years);…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, High School Students, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Brown, Brack – Teaching Political Science, 1984
Change is a subject of ever-growing importance for public administration. Discussed are six major perspectives recommended as categories to be combined in various ways to construct graduate courses on change. Also presented are sample exercises for use with doctoral and master's students undertaking the study of change. (RM)
Descriptors: Change, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
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Wall, Dianne; Horák, Tania – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
The aim of this report is to present the findings of the second phase in a longitudinal study of the impact of changes in the TOEFL® test on teaching and learning in test preparation classrooms. The focus of this phase was to monitor six teachers from five countries in Central and Eastern Europe as they received news about changes in the TOEFL and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Greer, W. Dwaine; And Others – 1993
This report documents the experiments by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts to research and develop content and teaching practices in school visual arts programs. An 18-month Rand Corporation study, begun in 1982, investigated discipline based art education (DBAE) visual arts programs in 7 cross country school districts. The study's two…
Descriptors: Art Education, Attitude Change, Change, Course Content