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Download full textHarrington, Charles; Lindy, Ingrid – 1998
This study used reflexive photography to examine the perceptions of college freshmen at the University of Southern Indiana. A random sample of 10 first-time, full-time, degree-seeking freshmen completed an initial interview and background questionnaire and were given a 27-exposure disposable camera to take pictures that would illustrate their…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Environment, College Freshmen, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedNICHD Early Child Care Research Network – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1996
Assessed settings and caregiver-infant interaction in five types of nonmaternal child care: day care centers; child care homes; in-home sitters; grandparents; and fathers. Found that small group sizes, low child-adult ratios, caregivers' nonauthoritarian child-rearing beliefs, and safe, clean, and stimulating physical environments were associated…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing
Khalid, Tahsin – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2001
Identifies and describes misconceptions held by preservice elementary teachers about the greenhouse effect, atmospheric ozone, and acid precipitation. (Contains 28 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedSchool Libraries in Canada, 2002
Includes 22 articles that address the use of Canadian statistics in the classroom. Highlights include the Statistics Canada Web site; other Web resources; original sources; critical thinking; debating with talented and gifted students; teaching marketing; environmental resources; data management; social issues and values; math instruction; reading…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Critical Thinking, Debate, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAquino, Teresa L.; Levine, Elissa R. – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Describes the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program which helps school library media specialists and science and math teachers bring earth science, math, information literacy, information technology, and student inquiry into the classroom. Discusses use of the Internet to create a global network to study the…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Research, Global Approach, Information Literacy
Peer reviewedWiseman, Gillian – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1994
Examines visions of libraries in 23 science fiction novels aimed at young adult readers. Aspects of librarianship explored include physical environment or building; reference and user services; networking and data transfer; librarians; electronic publishing and material format; and copyright, user fees, and freedom of access to information.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescent Literature, Computer Networks, Copyrights
Chan, Tak Cheung; Ledbetter, David B. – School Business Affairs, 1998
Uses space problems of a 15-year-old South Carolina middle school to illustrate the importance of a proper facility-design process. Planning principles such as change of space function, flexibility, accommodation of technology, structural quality, adequate supervision, and proper maintenance should be revisited. Time is a good test of design and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning, Flexible Facilities, House Plan
Peer reviewedVoice of Youth Advocates, 2001
Describes the transformation of the school library in Lindbergh Middle School, North Long Breach CA that serves a predominantly lower income, multicultural area whose students are struggling readers. Highlights include painting, new furniture, and other physical changes; collection development and circulation increases; hours of operation;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Facilities Improvement, Library Circulation
Peer reviewedGreen, Gaye Leigh – Art Education, 1996
Provides an introduction and overview of installation art. Installation art challenges the accepted notion of passive viewing and comments on concepts concerning art and the environment by creating spatial environments using natural materials. Describes several student installation art projects and the issues raised by this approach. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
Direct linkUnderhill-Sem, Yvonne – Convergence, 2006
In this article, the author starts by introducing three women from the Pacific whose lives illustrate the main points she addresses. She then discusses why place and gender matter in issues concerning the environment. Lastly, she touches on the implications of gender on environmental education.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Justice, Gender Issues, Feminism
Cook, Traci; Blachman, Dara; Dye, Jane; Macartney, Suzanne; Lukacs, Susan; Howie, LaJeana; Kena, Grace; Sonnenberg, William; Axelrad, Daniel; Steffen, Barry; Truman, Jennifer; Cotto, Jessica; Jekielek, Susan; Mueggenborg, Mary; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Denton, Stephanie; Avenevoli, Shelli; Singleton, James; Knighton, Cindi; Han, Beth; O'Connell, Kellie; Guenther, Patricia; Hiza, Hazel; Kuczynski, Kevin; Koegel, Kristin; Radel, Laura – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011" is a compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from the most…
Descriptors: Adoption, Social Indicators, Social Environment, Physical Environment
Stine, Sharon – 1997
The purpose of this book is to help designers and teachers think about the quality of outside school environments as learning places. The first chapter defines the players' roles as: (1) the designer, a maker of school form; (2) the teacher, the maintainer of the environment; and (3) the child, who is a major force in the use of the space. These…
Descriptors: Architecture, Case Studies, Children, Design
Henrico County Public Schools, Glen Allen, VA. Virginia Vocational Curriculum and Resource Center. – 1996
This publication contains a worker task list and supplementary information for occupations in the agriculture and natural resources cluster of occupations. The task list were generated through the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process and/or by analysis by a panel of experts. Tasks are listed in 10 categories: (1) performing investigative…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Competence, Competency Based Education, Employee Attitudes
PDF pending restorationEarthworks Group, Berkeley, CA. – 1990
This book explains how specific objects in a child's environment are connected to the rest of the world; how using them affects the planet; and how the individual can develop positive habits through projects that are environmentally sound. The book is written for children. The material includes experiments, facts, and activities divided into eight…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Conservation (Environment)
Fulton, Rodney D. – 1989
A study surveyed 139 individuals to determine if differences in the way they approached the physical attributes of various learning environments could be attributed to either gender or age. Participants were Montana State University graduate students in education; adult basic education students in Bozeman, Montana; adult basic education faculty…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
