Reported is a study that designed a set of materials representing a spectrum of possible opinions on an environmental issue and tested the materials with ninth-grade students. Materials were obtained regarding strip mining. Judges ranked the materials on a five point scale from strongly supporting to strongly opposing strip mining. Materials on…

The purpose of this study was to establish baseline data relating to the environmental knowledge and beliefs of fifth-year secondary students in England. The instrument developed for the survey consisted of three questionnaires, each containing a total of 45 cognitive and affective items. All items were pilot tested in nine English secondary…

The study investigates a strategy for integration of a comprehensive urban environmental education program into an existing school curriculum. It reviews data on the development of environmental education, programs now in operation, and data on the subject community of Irvington, New Jersey. A product of the investigation was the development of a…

Considered is the problem of a need for experiential design awareness to enable people to deal more meaningfully with the environment. A survey of 165 institutions of higher education revealed that only 58 were offering undergraduate courses even remotely related to experiential design awareness and only 4% required the courses on a compulsory…

This thesis seeks to analyze the materials produced by the Project for an Energy Enriched Curriculum (PEEC). Specifically evaluated are the completeness and degree of bias characterizing the materials as an entity. In support of this end, examined are the nature and extent to which the materials treat future energy alternatives and the extent to…