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Contribution of an Intergenerational Sustainability Leadership Project to the Development of Students' Environmental Literacy
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Klein, Sara; Watted, Shefa; Zion, Michal – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This study focuses on the impact of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project on the development of students' environmental literacy. The project involved high-school students and older adults in the community who learned and worked together on environmental issues developing original initiatives over a period of three years. The…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, School Community Programs, High School Students, Adolescents
'It's My Responsibility': Perspectives on Environmental Justice and Education for Sustainability among International School Students in Singapore
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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
Sample Issue for the Teaching of Socio-Scientific Issues: The Endangered Northern Bald Ibis
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Uzel, Nurcan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
The prominence of socioscientific issues (SSI), that combine society with science, in education has grown in recent years. The northern bald ibis is important for science and society since it is an endangered species, it only inhabits one region in Turkey and has a limited population worldwide. This study aims to ascertain the impact of the…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Wildlife, Geographic Regions, Place of Residence
Toward a Lived Science Curriculum in Intersecting Figured Worlds: An Exploration of Individual Meanings in Science Education
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Price, Jeremy F.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
As knowledge of and familiarity with science becomes an increasingly important aspect of contemporary life and citizenship, efforts have been made to make the science curriculum a “lived” curriculum (Hurd, 2000), one that reaches out to the lives, communities, and experiences of students. In this research around a high school urban ecology…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Theories, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum
Encouraging Ecological Behaviors among Students by Using the Ecological Footprint as an Educational Tool: A Quasi-Experimental Design in a Public High School in the City of Haifa
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Gottlieb, Dan; Vigoda-Gadot, Eran; Haim, Abraham – Environmental Education Research, 2013
The aim of the current study is to explore whether the ecological footprint is an appropriate tool for encouraging ecological behaviors in students. In the quasi-experimental research that we conducted, four classes from one of the public high schools in the city of Haifa ("N"?=?130) participated in an environmental education (EE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecological Factors, Conservation (Environment), Student Behavior
A Learning Progression for Water in Socio-Ecological Systems
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Gunckel, Kristin L.; Covitt, Beth A.; Salinas, Ivan; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
Providing model-based accounts (explanations and predictions) of water and substances in water moving through environmental systems is an important practice for environmental science literacy and necessary for citizens confronting global and local water quantity and quality issues. In this article we present a learning progression for water in…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Environmental Education, Thinking Skills, Science Education