ERIC Number: ED544521
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1324-9320
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Place and Sustainability Literacy in Schools and Teacher Education
Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica
Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), Paper presented at the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference (AARE-APERA 2012) World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Dec 2-6, 2012)
The development of sustainability literate teachers has been identified as a key challenge for the implementation of education for sustainability in Australian schools (Skamp, 2010) and elsewhere (Nolet, 2009). This paper reports on the first year of a participatory action research project that investigates the learning of school teachers, teacher educators, school children and teacher education students, in relation to the integration of place-based sustainability education across the curriculum of a low SES primary school. The methods of data collection included digital visual and audio recorded observations and reflections by teacher educators; reflective observations, focus groups, and interviews with teachers and principals; and the collection of student artefacts from school and teacher education students. A number of different conceptual and theoretical lenses are brought to the analysis of this data including "thinking through country"; sustainability literacies and new technologies; and contemporary theories of space, place and body. In this baseline paper, the overall findings are summarised under the categories of the participating groups: teacher, teacher educator, school student, teacher education student, and the school/place/community nexus. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research, Research Projects, Elementary School Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Place Based Education, Observation, Reflection, Focus Groups, Semi Structured Interviews, Teacher Education Curriculum, Instructional Development, Faculty Development
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Grade 4; Elementary Education; Grade 3
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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