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Jones, Mat; Ruge, Dorte; Jones, Verity – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Schools are recognized as important locales for education and action to change food-related environmental and health behaviours. Research shows the potential for a whole school systems approach to integrate educational activities, food in school, and wider food-related interactions. However, little attention has been given to how theory is put…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Food, Health Behavior, Environmental Education
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Huda, Shamsi Ara; Eiten, Ehatasham Ul Hoque – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a paradigm shift from face-to-face to online teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses through widely recognized virtual platforms. The suddenness of the movement did not give enough time for the tertiary-level EFL teachers in Bangladesh to be prepared. In consequence, the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Impellizeri, Whitney; Lee, Vera J. – Education and Urban Society, 2022
Place-based initiatives, such as the federal Promise Neighborhoods grant, attempt to coordinate interventions, supports, and services with a myriad of organizations to targeted communities. Although Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), inclusive of academic medical institutions, are among the most overall researched anchor institution,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Place Based Education, Higher Education, School Community Relationship
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Helliwell, Tracy; Ng, Oi-Lam – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
We report on an action research study conducted by two mathematics teacher educators in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. The project consisted of three phases, the first two taking place in our respective teacher education courses and a final phase in which prospective mathematics teachers from both locations engaged in dialogue through a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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William J. Rowley – International Dialogues on Education, 2022
This paper is a follow-up to determine the accuracy of the predictions stated in a previously published article titled "Higher Education in the Midst of a Pandemic: A Dean's Perspective" (Rowley, 2020). Those predictions were more like educated guesses since the paper was written in 2020, the year the pandemic was beginning to spread…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Tang, Kuok Ho Daniel – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of a sustainable development course on the beliefs, attitudes and intentions of a cohort of engineering students in a university in Miri, Malaysia, towards sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: Questionnaire survey was conducted among the cohort of students encompassing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Student Attitudes
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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Sandri, Orana; Holdsworth, Sarah; Thomas, Ian – Environmental Education Research, 2018
The development of university wide graduate attributes has become an important mechanism for setting generic learning outcomes across higher education institutions. Many universities around the world have developed sets of graduate attributes that they aim to develop through degree programs. Sustainability related attributes have been included in…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education
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Brion, Corinne; Cordeiro, Paula A. – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2018
The international community has pledged to provide a quality education for all by 2030. School leaders play a key role in improving student learning outcomes yet oftentimes educational leaders do not have opportunities to attend professional development events. The purpose of this study was to examine a Training of Trainers Model (TOT) used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training, Trainers, Models
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Glover, Andrew; Strengers, Yolande; Lewis, Tania – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: Air travel is becoming increasingly recognized as a source of greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. This is particularly relevant for the university sector, which relies heavily on staff air travel for domestic and international mobility. Design/methodology/approach: Using a qualitative content and textual analysis of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Air Transportation, Foreign Countries, Climate
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Fonseca, Paula; Moura, Pedro; Jorge, Humberto; de Almeida, Aníbal – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design a renovation plan for a university campus building (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) with the aim to achieve nearly zero energy performance, ensuring a low specific demand (lower than 44 kWh/m[superscript 2]) and a high level of on-site renewable generation (equivalent to more than…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Energy Conservation, Engineering Education, Audits (Verification)
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Stokes, Alison; Harmer, Nichola – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
Active, student-centered pedagogies such as project-based learning (PjBL) can offer significant potential for engaging undergraduates with complex sustainability issues. Driven by institution-wide curriculum changes and informed by educational theories and evidence from previous studies, a trial PjBL activity was designed and delivered on three…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction
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Pluska, Lisa – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2018
This cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the impact of a behavior support program implemented in elementary school on students' high school behaviors. The research question driving the study was whether high school students who had received instruction in the Students Taking Appropriate Responsibility (STAR) program for four years…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Outcomes of Treatment, Prior Learning, Elementary School Students
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Belinaso, Leandro; Estevinho, Lúcia; Brasil Ramos, Mariana – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This article discusses recent Brazilian research on the relationship between environmental education and cultural studies. Television narratives about the environment and/or sustainability in our everyday lives are used to pose some initial questions about this relation. First, culture is discussed briefly showing how it potentially relates to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Programming (Broadcast), Futures (of Society), Sustainability
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Biao, Idowu – World Journal of Education, 2018
This article posits that schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa has so far failed to yield the results expected of it on two grounds. First, the population of persons accessing both basic education and other levels of education is negligible in comparison with those who ought to access them (1 out of every 4 primary school age children; less than half of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Poverty, Economic Development
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