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Powell, Robert B.; Stern, Marc J.; Frensley, Brandon Troy – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Which approaches are associated with better student learning outcomes in environmental education (EE)? We observed a sample of 299 day-long EE field trip programs occurring across the U.S.A. for youth in grades 5-8 (ages 9 to 14). We tracked the extent of use and quality of implementation of 66 programmatic, educator, and setting characteristics…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Rødnes, Kari Anne; Dolonen, Jan Arild – Environmental Education Research, 2023
This qualitative study investigates how young students expressed, explored and expanded their ideas of how they could contribute to sustainable development. We analyse a trajectory in a Norwegian 8th grade class, focusing on the students' emerging understanding through microblogging and talk in individual, group and whole class activities. The…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Electronic Publishing, Grade 8, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Hofverberg, Hanna; Maivorsdotter, Ninitha – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Creative remake assignments using garments and textile refuse are common educational projects to promote environmental and sustainability actions. However, very little empirical research has been carried out on the learning processes of remake projects. In this article, the aim is to examine how students learn with garments and textile refuse when…
Descriptors: Recycling, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Clothing
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Marques, Rita Ruivo; Malafaia, Carla; Faria, Joaquim L.; Menezes, Isabel – Environmental Education Research, 2020
The WaterCircle (WC) project was implemented in a school, with young adolescents, to address environmental problems. Framed in a participatory research (PR) approach, this school-and-community based intervention includes the use of online tools through which environmental problems in the community are discussed within and by a group of students.…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Citizen Participation, Conservation (Environment), Early Adolescents
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Lin, Shyh-ming – Environmental Education Research, 2016
This study applied environmental behavioural theories to develop a personal carbon footprint management system and used persuasive technology to implement it. The system serves as an educational system to improve the determinants of students' low-carbon behaviours, to promote low-carbon concepts and to facilitate their carbon management. To assess…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Natural Resources
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Tuncer, Gaye; Ertepinar, Hamide; Tekkaya, Ceren; Sungur, Semra – Environmental Education Research, 2005
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of school type (private and public) and gender on sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth grade students' attitudes toward the environment. A total of 1497 students (n = 765 girls; n = 715 boys; and n = 17 gender not provided) attending public (n = 603) and private schools (n = 892) located in Ankara…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Questionnaires, Early Adolescents