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Topal, Merve; Guven Yildirim, Ezgi; Onder, Ayse Nesibe – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of educational movies that are used in teaching the chapter of Mystery of Earth Crust / Earth and Universe on the environment-related knowledge levels and attitudes of students. Another purpose of the study is to find out about the views of students in the experiment. As a result of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Films, Video Technology, Environmental Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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op de Beeck, Nathalie – Children's Literature in Education, 2018
This essay explores how nineteenth-century nature study principles inform a twenty-first century New Nature Study movement, and gives examples of a trend toward nature writing in recent picture books. The pedagogical principles of nineteenth-century nature study, ascendant at the turn of the twentieth century and implicit in interwar children's…
Descriptors: Ecology, Natural Resources, Teaching Methods, Picture Books
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Bouma-Prediger, Steven – Christian Higher Education, 2018
Reconciliation is often understood as only having to do with our broken relationship with God. Yet we are alienated not only from God, but also from other people and the natural world. So we need help. Our brokenness extends to all things, thus we need to be put back into right relationships with all things. Such is the good news of Scripture: God…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Factors, Alienation, Biblical Literature
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Ahi, Berat; Balci, Sibel – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
The purpose of the study is to reveal the knowledge level of pre-school children aged four to five about the concepts of forest and deforestation. The study group of the research consists of 29 children having pre-school education. The data were collected using a standardized open-ended interview technique. Results of the study showed that…
Descriptors: Ecology, Knowledge Level, Preschool Children, Forestry
Aquino, Elsie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The conservation, preservation, and protection of the environment are responsibilities that must be globally shared by human beings to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED, 1987, p. 43). When citizens acquire…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Conservation (Environment), Justice
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Chumphong, Oothsuma; Embree, Steven Gregory – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The purpose of this paper was 1) to investigate the effects of CBI training on awareness and content knowledge to investigate the English knowledge of young people involved in mangrove forest conservation and ecotourism, and 2) to investigate the perception of young people on the importance of mangrove forest and natural resource conservation and…
Descriptors: Tourism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Affolderbach, Julia – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
The urgency of the current climate crisis emphasizes the need for university graduates equipped with relevant knowledge and skills to tackle environmental and social problems such as material consumption, environmental degradation and inequality at all spatial scales. Geographic and spatially sensitive concepts and approaches to sustainability and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Sustainability, Climate
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Norton, Laura Soledad; Sarrica, Mauro; Lombardi, Raffaele; Peruzzi, Gaia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The paper aims to reflect on the function(s) served by the network of Argentine universities for environmental management and social inclusion (UAGAIS), including sharing information, empowering its members and fostering political action. To these functions, the authors add that networks play a prominent role in promoting culturally and…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Networks
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Khan, Steven; LaFrance, Stéphanie; Tran, Hang Thi Thuy – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
We give an unconventional, mythopoetic response to the question of Why teach mathematics to all learners in school? In our work with pre-service teachers, we attempt to teach how to value the vulnerability of the multispecies world in a relational, anti-colonial way through passionate immersion, and to use mathematics education towards the ends of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Ethics, Climate
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Akhter, Tawhida – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Literature has been an imitator of life for generations on this earth, this literature has voiced the voiceless. Recent contemporary and postmodern literary theories have catered to burgeoning notions of logic that go beyond human survival on the planet. Science fiction is a genre of fiction that encompasses imaginative concepts like futuristic…
Descriptors: Novels, Futures (of Society), Science Fiction, COVID-19
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Eng, Nicholas; DiRusso, Carlina; Troy, Cassandra L. C.; Freeman, Jason T.; Liao, Meng Qi; Sun, Yuan – Environmental Education Research, 2021
As individuals become more aware and concerned about their own contribution to global climate change, empowering consumers to make informed decisions that are beneficial to the environment is of chief importance. This study tests how literacy interventions can be used to empower and increase people's ability to identify greenwashing as a defense…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Intervention
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Banos-González, Isabel; Esteve-Guirao, Patricia; Jaén, Mercedes – Environmental Education Research, 2021
We explore the socio-ecological effects of meat consumption by assessing the impact of a didactical intervention. We focused on meat consumers' profiles, their willingness to engage in pro-environmental actions and the allocation of responsibility for environmental issues. Using pretest-posttest-control methodology, a group of future…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Late Adolescents, Climate
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Malone, Melanie – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Critical Physical Geography (CPG) emerged as a discipline around 2014 and has since excited many human and physical geographers, as well researchers in political ecology, geomorphology, science and technology, and environmental science whose research, critiques, and methodologies have formed much of the basis of CPG. However, because of its recent…
Descriptors: Physical Geography, Geography Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Conservation (Environment)
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Nyberg, Eva; Brkovic, Irma; Sanders, Dawn – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
In the twenty years since the first theory of 'plant blindness' was published much discussion has ensued concerning this phenomenon. More recent research, not only demonstrates that humans appear to favour animals over plants but also indicates a preference for mammals with forward-facing eyes. For this paper, we analysed answers to an online…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Plants (Botany), Animals, Biology
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Feldman, Jonathan Michael – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
This paper investigates how one could envision a discursive mobilization process to transform protest movements into agents that help reconstruct the universities as agents supporting material mobilizations leading to ecological reconstruction. After reviewing universities' ecological footprints, the author shows how theories of mobilization and…
Descriptors: Universities, Conservation (Environment), Political Influences, Activism
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