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Jessica A. Cordaro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Currently, STEM education and Education for Sustainability (EfS) are viewed as disconnected educational approaches in Pennsylvania classrooms. While both offer promising outcomes and have overlapping goals, research shows that separately they both face challenges to implementation. This study aims to strengthen both approaches by exploring the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Sustainability, Teacher Competencies, Systems Approach
Goode, Gretchen S.; MacGillivray, Laurie – Childhood Education, 2023
Mapping provides an entry point for improving teacher and student understandings of inquiry and systems thinking. The authors recognize their potential for structuring inquiry learning, developing culturally responsive and sustaining classrooms, and engaging teachers and students in deep discussions about the complexity of life. In this article,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Inquiry, Systems Approach, Active Learning
Shin, Namsoo; Bowers, Jonathan; Roderick, Steve; McIntyre, Cynthia; Stephens, A. Lynn; Eidin, Emil; Krajcik, Joseph; Damelin, Daniel – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
We face complex global issues such as climate change that challenge our ability as humans to manage them. Models have been used as a pivotal science and engineering tool to investigate, represent, explain, and predict phenomena or solve problems that involve multi-faceted systems across many fields. To fully explain complex phenomena or solve…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Computation, Models
Halil Tu¨may – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Chemistry is a systems science that deals with complex-dynamic systems and systems thinking is an essential aspect of chemical practices. Thus, a systems thinking approach is needed in chemistry education for meaningful learning of the subject matter. Despite this necessity, systems thinking has not received sufficient attention in chemistry…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Benjamin Emihovich – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Serious games, board games, and well-designed commercial video games represent emerging technologies that have been utilized by instructors to help students develop systems thinking skills. In this paper, the author proposes an innovative pedagogical framework that can support educators using digital game-based learning in higher education. By…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Thinking Skills, Systems Approach
Anis Shofatun; Elly Herniani; Dinny Mardiani – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
Climate change in coastal areas is a complex problem that involves value systems and requires various scientific disciplines. Integration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) approach is needed in learning so that it can train students to think holistically, structured and systematically. This research was carried out with…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, STEM Education, Lesson Plans, Worksheets
Allison Byrd; Kristin Gibson; Catherine Sanders; Rachel Corry; Kevan Lamm; Alexa Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2023
University agricultural educators are challenged to employ innovative approaches to prepare undergraduates in agriculture and natural resources to address complex global problems while understanding interconnected systems. Undergraduates, current members of Generation Z (Gen Z), prefer environmental sustainability and innovation, but solutions for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Age Groups, Agricultural Education, Conservation (Environment)
York, Sarah; Orgill, MaryKay – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Recently, there have been calls to integrate systems thinking approaches into chemistry education in order to strengthen students' conceptual understanding, build their problem-solving capabilities, and prepare them to make informed, ethical decisions about globally relevant issues, such as sustainability. Unfortunately, implementation of systems…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teaching Methods, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Caitlin Renea Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of biology is becoming increasingly fragmented, and this fragmentation spills over into the ways our students think and learn about biology. Biology education policy documents stress the importance of teaching biology in an integrated manner and call for the biology education research community to establish a unifying paradigm for the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Education
Talley, Emily K.; Hull, R. Bruce – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to offer a case study for teaching specific systems thinking competencies that promote leadership for systems change. It uses leadership as a novel way to identify and organize systems thinking competencies that are important for successful multistakeholder collaboration. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative and…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods, Climate
Shu-Chiu Liu – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Higher education plays an important role in preparing future citizens and leaders with the capacity to address systemic issues behind complex problems such as climate change. There have however been few attempts to assess systems-related competencies in the context of complex problems. This study adapted an existing scenario-based assessment tool…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Correlation, Systems Approach, Climate
Iina Hyyppä; Tapio Rasa; Antti Laherto – Frontline Learning Research, 2024
In an era of worsening environmental crises, students may not perceive themselves as able to impact and change the inevitably upcoming futures. Accordingly, a common goal of educational systems has been to develop students' agency beliefs and sensemaking in a complex world. Simultaneously, students are facing unprecedented levels of future…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Systems Approach, Thinking Skills, Futures (of Society)
Goode, Gretchen S.; MacGillivray, Laurie – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
The prevalence of systems thinking pedagogy is growing in classrooms because of its inclusion in the Next Generation Science Standards and its potential as a tool for addressing complex, global problems. While most of the research on systems thinking targets the ways students develop system thinking skills, this qualitative study explores…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Faculty Development, Science Education, Standards
Rinehart, Ronald W.; Olsen, Benjamin D.; Freese, Lisa; Kuhn, Mason – Science and Children, 2021
Space exploration is intrinsically interesting to young learners. Children gaze at the stars and marvel at what it might be like to live "out there!" With the July 2020 launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission, and its landing in 2021, there is no better time to capitalize on engineering and science in the news. This mission is…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Space Sciences, Space Exploration, Engineering
Cameron Guthrie – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
Business schools have a responsibility for educating global citizens capable of understanding and addressing the major societal challenges of the 21st century. However, working on complex societal problems within business school curricula remains a challenge. This teaching brief presents a learning project that helps instructors introduce…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Business Schools, Experiential Learning, News Media