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Gass, Susan; Mui, Amy; Manning, Paul; Cray, Heather; Gibson, Lara – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Biodiversity education is widely considered a necessary component of protecting global biodiversity by helping to change harmful attitudes and actions. BioBlitz events, rapid surveys of all living things in a defined area over a set period, are becoming a widely used practice for biodiversity education. The aim of this study was to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Outdoor Education
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Barron, Daniella; Khosa, Deep; Jones-Bitton, Andria – Journal of Experiential Education, 2017
Experiential learning is essential in medical and veterinary student education and can improve students' communication with clients during medical appointments. There is limited research in veterinary education investigating the effectiveness of experiential learning environments to provide an "integrative approach" to teaching. The…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Veterinary Medicine, Teaching Methods, Clinical Experience
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Sethna, Christabelle – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2010
An early-twentieth-century movement for social purity in England, Canada and the United States aimed to eradicate prostitution, the double standard of sexual morals and their dreaded corollary, the venereal diseases. Social purists suggested that "purity education" for children was the best pedagogical prophylaxis against such…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Foreign Countries, Animals, Moral Values
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Hardt, Oliver; Wang, Szu-Han; Nader, Karim – Learning & Memory, 2009
To this day, it remains unresolved whether experimental amnesia reflects failed memory storage or the inability to retrieve otherwise intact memory. Methodological as well as conceptual reasons prevented deciding between these two alternatives: The absence of recovery from amnesia is typically taken as supporting storage impairment…
Descriptors: Memory, Brain, Foreign Countries, Animals