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Dalia Abdelwahed Mohamed; Asma Margeni Hussien Ali – Open Education Studies, 2024
The study aims to assess the effectiveness of a pop-up story-based program in fostering environmental awareness and sustainability among first-grade elementary students. Using a quasi-experimental design, the study included experimental and control groups, each consisting of 56 students, randomly assigned to two groups: 28 in the experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Conservation (Environment)
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Sharma, Meenakshi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: The learning environment is not a vacuum, but rather is rich in social contexts with innumerable points, interests, and beliefs. This takes one of the concepts of "social learning" which is not just a natural occurring phenomenon but also a way of organizing learning and communities of learners. Social Learning (SL) tends to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Conservation (Environment), Sustainability, Socialization
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Fermín-González, Marlene; Echenique-Arginzones, Ada – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
The Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS) program is ever-increasingly being promoted in the field of early childhood education. This proposal is articulated with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and UNESCO's Education 2030 Agenda, which understands that children may learn and develop competencies on sustainability,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries
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Desirée Falzon; Elisabeth Conrad; Liberato Camilleri – Environmental Education Research, 2025
The current evidence base for outdoor and nature-based education in a context of education for sustainability is limited and unrepresentative of the realities of small, urban schools, which tend to be characterised by small outdoor spaces devoid of nature. To address this research gap, we carried out two studies in Malta, as an example of a…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Teaching Methods, Small Schools, Urban Schools
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Larsen, Thomas; Gerike, Matthew; Harrington, John, Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2022
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth's system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Geography Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kim, JeongWon; Pang, JeongSuk – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The purpose of the study was to explore how contents related to sustainable development were presented in Japanese, Korean, and Singaporean elementary mathematics textbooks. For this purpose, the contents in the textbooks were analyzed at both macro and micro levels through a mixed method research. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Myrstad, Anne; Hackett, Abigail; Bartnaes, Pernille – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children's movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow, as seasons, temperature, light, wind and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Kindergarten, Weather
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Gan, Dafna; Alkaher, Iris; Segal, Tamar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Engaging students in environmental citizenship to promote education for sustainability (EfS) as an explicit goal of academic courses is not common, notwithstanding wide consensus on its importance. Collaborative learning has rarely been investigated using action research methods in the context of environmental citizenship in higher…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Sustainability
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Waite, Kim – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2021
In our interconnected world, what does it mean to teach global environmental issues to young children? Using theoretical foundations from the social justice learning community and child-directed, inquiry-based learning best practices, this practitioner reflection details a seven-week, student-centered, interdisciplinary learning experience…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Justice, Inquiry, Student Centered Learning
Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Marandon, André Steenbuch – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This article aims to describe and discuss what local weather landscapes mean to children and how weather implies exploring bodily sensations and capabilities. It does so by following the work of a community artist, working as a kindergarten teacher, over 1 year. Design/Approach/Methods: Through a narrative inquiry approach, which also…
Descriptors: Climate, Kindergarten, Artists, Preschool Teachers
Vohra, Divya; Rowan, Patricia; Hotchkiss, John; Lim, Kenneth; Lansdale, Aimee; O'Neil, So – Mathematica, 2021
In the 2020-2021 school year, many schools and districts around the country implemented routine COVID-19 testing to proactively detect cases among teachers, students, and staff and stop the spread of the virus. Such testing made it possible for many communities to gain the needed support from teachers and parents to reopen schools and resume…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Districts, Educational Environment
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D'Souza, Carol; Brahme, Milind; Babu, M. Suresh – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
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Kuzich, Sonja; Taylor, Elisabeth; Taylor, Peter Charles – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
Schools willing to implement education for sustainability (EfS) commonly find themselves confronted with curricula, school grounds and buildings and teaching practices that do not lend themselves easily to best practice EfS. In this article, we present what we learned about some of the challenges confronted daily by the staff of a purpose-built…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Best Practices, Primary Education
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Hindman, Annemarie H.; Wasik, Barbara A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The current study examined whether Head Start children who experienced a high-quality preschool intervention, "Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy" ("ExCELL"), as three-year-olds began the subsequent pre-kindergarten (or four-year-old) year with stronger language and literacy skills than same-age peers who…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Coaching (Performance)
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