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Loureiro, Jerônimo de Oliveira; Dal-Farra, Rossano André – Environmental Education Research, 2018
The increasing urbanization and alienation from nature reduce children's opportunities to interact with plants and challenge teachers to devise educational practices that contribute to learning botany. This study presents the results of activities developed in a Brazilian school through explorations, drawings, dried and pressed specimens, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Botany, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Bartoszeck, Amauri Betini; Cosmo, Claudete Rosa; da Silva, Bernadete Rocha; Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale – European Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Children from southern and northern Brazil have a basic knowledge of plants, which they observe during their everyday life. Children ages between 3 to 10 years old (kindergarten & primary school), but the majority of them in the age group of 4-5 (total 145) were asked to draw what they think is a plant (total sample = 332). Afterwards, a equal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plants (Botany), Young Children, Children
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Iared, Valéria Ghisloti; de Oliveira, Haydée Torres – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2012
To investigate if the units of the São Carlos Ecological Pole (São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil) are educating spaces that may contribute to the understanding of the complexity of environmental issues and stimulate a sense of belonging and social responsibility, we interviewed primary school teachers who had accompanied visits to these places and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ethics, Educational Practices, Social Responsibility