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Yudu Zeng; Bjørg Oddrun Hallås; Ove Olsen Saele – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Educational praxis incorporating intercultural wisdom, transdisciplinary cooperation, and nature-culture dialogues can arguably contribute to the UN's education for sustainable development (ESD) and ameliorate current social-ecological challenges. This article elucidates how 14 Norwegian pupils aged 11-13 reflect on their experiences and feelings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Outdoor Education, Sustainable Development
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William J. Sumrall – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2025
When educators started incorporating the letter A into the STEM acronym to form STEAM some science educators had reservations. Seen from a western, rationalistic way of knowing (Colucci-Gray et al. 2017, 23) the STEM community had detractors regarding the idea of integrating art into science. Hence, scientific language is often thought of as being…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, STEM Education, Art Activities, Art Education
Galloway, Stephanie P. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Public education has evolved throughout the years, whereas traditional school settings focused on students sitting quietly in the classroom waiting for instructions from their teachers who orchestrated the lessons and procedures for running the classroom. Although student voice always existed, it was often overlooked. For the most part, emphasis…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Empowerment, School Culture, Change Agents
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Marien Alet Graham – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2023
There is growing global concern concerning South African learners' mathematics achievement, with research identifying many factors contributing to poor mathematics achievement, with class size being one of them. When classrooms are overcrowded, this may lead to a stressful environment which can negatively impact the quality of teaching and…
Descriptors: Crowding, Class Size, Ecological Factors, Foreign Countries
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Nurwaqidah, Siti; Suciati, S.; Ramli, Murni – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2020
The student's environmental literacy (EL) is vital to improving students' awareness of environmental issues. This study was intended to display the role of eco-school program (Adiwiyata) and non-adiwiyata schools towards EL of junior high school students by analyzing EL of students in Ponorogo. The research was conducted in March-October. The…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Knowledge Level, Conservation (Environment), Ecological Factors
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Jimenez, Jeremy; Moorhead, Laura; Wilensky, Tova – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
This article analyzes students' perspectives on sustainable development, environmental justice, and concomitant environmental education programs at two international schools in Singapore. Data include surveys of over 250 students and 19 focus-group interviews with 300 students. In addition to having a detailed and nuanced understanding of the…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Social Justice, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
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Idrissi, Hajar – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
This research paper aims to examine the effects of extracurricular activities in building knowledge, skills and attitudes that attempt to develop ecological citizenship as a subset of global citizenship among middle school students. I focus on one extracurricular programme entitled 'The Friends of Nature' that was provided in a Moroccan private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Behavior Change, Extracurricular Activities
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Velki, Tena – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Using the ecological approach, the goal of this study was to determine the predictors of physical and verbal peer aggressive behavior. The participants were 880 school students from the fifth to eighth grade (48% boys and 52% girls) and the same number of parents (19% fathers and 61% mothers) as well as 107 teachers. The main analysis was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Behavior
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Paiva, João C.; Morais, Carla; Moreira, Luciano – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
This paper proposes an ecological framework "Activities with Parents on the Computer" (APC) to bridge home and school contexts by involving parents and students in digital media based assignments. An exploratory case-study was conducted based on ten parent-child dyads that engaged in an APC at home. Attitudes were assessed through a…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Home Study, Computer Uses in Education, Parent Child Relationship
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Zeyer, Albert; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2009
Environment and environmental protection are on the forefront of political concerns globally. But how are the media and political discourses concerning these issues mirrored in the public more generally and in the discourses of school science students more specifically? In this study, we analyze the discourse mobilized in whole-class conversations…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries, Ecological Factors