Building Sustainability Through Environmental Education

Author : Wilson, Lynn A.,Stevenson, Carolyn N.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522577287

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Building Sustainability Through Environmental Education by Wilson, Lynn A.,Stevenson, Carolyn N. Pdf

Global climate change will alter the environmental forces of today and increasingly affect weather patterns, rises in temperature, and government policies for decades to come. To provide future generations with the knowledge and resources needed to develop solutions for these ongoing issues, current shortcomings in environmental education need to be addressed. Building Sustainability Through Environmental Education is a collection of innovative research on methods and applications for creating comprehensive environmental education programs that support sustainability practices and instruct students on a variety of topics including water resource management, disaster risks and mitigation, and issues surrounding climate change. Targeting an audience of educators, conservationists, instructional designers, administrators, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students, this publications provides practical applications and examples of integrating best environmental sustainability practices into education.

Author : Schroth, Stephen T.,Daniels, Janese
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799827122

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Building STEM Skills Through Environmental Education by Schroth, Stephen T.,Daniels, Janese Pdf

Environmental studies provide an ideal opportunity for children of any age to build critical and creative thinking skills while also building skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Exploring issues related to sustainability and environmental concerns permits learners to identify problems, develop research questions, gather and analyze data, develop possible solutions, and disseminate this information to others. Despite the advantages of green education and its ability to improve student achievement, there is a gap in understanding the interplay between curriculum and instruction and how this affects teaching and learning. Building STEM Skills Through Environmental Education is an essential publication that addresses gaps in the understanding of green education and offers educators meaningful and comprehensive examples of environmental and sustainability education in the Pre-K through secondary grade levels. The book offers a unique combination of foundational understanding of green education and chapters that illustrate the principles and impact of green education across grade levels, content areas, assessment systems, instructional strategies, technology, and other related topics. It is ideally designed for educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, advocates, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : John Chi-Kin Lee,Rob Efird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401788663

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Schooling for Sustainable Development Across the Pacific by John Chi-Kin Lee,Rob Efird Pdf

Environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) are asserting their growing role in curricula around the world, yet how deeply embedded are they in the learning systems of the Pacific nations? Building on an earlier analysis in China and Taiwan, this volume expands its purview to examine the quality and extent of environmental and sustainable development education in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including China itself, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia. As well as offering detailed national analyses provided by Asian-Pacific academics and professionals, this work includes examples in the US and Canada and an introduction that assesses the contrasting challenges and positive commonalities among diverse education systems. The chapters reflect leading-edge practice, innovation, and depth of experience and at the same time as detailing locally relevant and culturally appropriate strategies they also provide clear models and strategies for expanding the application and influence of education for sustainable development elsewhere. In doing so, they mirror the global nature of environmental issues as well as the local nature of the solutions.

Author : Alex Russ,Marianne E. Krasny
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781501712784

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Urban Environmental Education Review by Alex Russ,Marianne E. Krasny Pdf

Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.

Author : KHRITISH SWARGIARY
Publisher : LAP
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Environmental Education and Sustainability: A Path to a Greener Future by KHRITISH SWARGIARY Pdf

This book aspires to be a comprehensive resource for educators, policymakers, environmental enthusiasts, and anyone interested in fostering a greener and more sustainable world through education. It aims to inspire, educate, and empower individuals and institutions to take action, collaborate, and pave the way towards a more environmentally sustainable future.

Author : Clara Vasconcelos,Cristina S. C. Calheiros
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Bioremediation
ISBN : 9783030918439

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Enhancing Environmental Education Through Nature-based Solutions by Clara Vasconcelos,Cristina S. C. Calheiros Pdf

This Book presents innovative and state of the art studies developed in Environmental Education in different countries to highlight this theme and promote its implementation all over the world. It will give a scientific perspective of Nature-based solutions to promote environmental education in all citizens and a more educational perspective as to how this approach can be implemented at schools and universities. Not less important is that includes science communication as a key factor for training and disseminating about the environment. The invited authors are recognized experts with excellent work developed in Environmental Education. This contributed volume presents innovative and creative work in the area giving a step forward in the implementation of Environmental Education, namely as a target of 2020 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. The invitation of authors from many different countries allows the creation of a network and subsequently the book will bring concrete ideas as to how to develop operational capacities to bring added values to Environmental Education at an international level.

Author : Wilson, Lynn
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466687653

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Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education by Wilson, Lynn Pdf

Addressing global climate change is a monumental battle that can only be fought by the leaders of tomorrow, but future leaders are molded through education and shaped by the leaders of today. While the pivotal role of education in spreading awareness of climate change is one universally espoused, equally universal is the recognition that current education efforts are falling woefully short. Promoting Climate Change Awareness through Environmental Education stems the rising tide of shortcomings in environmental education by plugging a known gap in current research and opening a dialogue for the future. Targeting an audience of young scholars, academics, researchers, and policymakers, this volume provides a much needed dam of empirical evidence regarding the role of youth education in addressing one of the greatest challenges of our age. This timely publication focuses on topics such as building resilience to climate change, green learning spaces, gender issues and concerns for developing countries, and the impact of young adults on the future of environmental sustainability.

Author : Annette Gough,John Chi-Kin Lee,Eric Po Keung Tsang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030468200

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Green Schools Globally by Annette Gough,John Chi-Kin Lee,Eric Po Keung Tsang Pdf

This book brings together stories of the green schools movement ((Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) in several countries around the world, with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable development in each of the countries. In particular, each story will explain the history of the movement per country, its current status, achievements, obstacles and broader impact. There have been a number of evaluations of these school movements at a national or more local level, and numerous articles and chapters have been published on aspects of these schools’ activities, but to date these have not been brought together in a single volume that focuses attention on the impact of the movement on education for sustainable development in each country. This is the purpose of this volume. The green schools movement focuses on a whole school approach which aims to include everyone (students, teachers and the local community), to improve school environments, including resource usage and the environmental footprint of the school, to motivate students to take on environmental problems and seek resolutions particularly at a local level but also thinking globally, and to improve students' attitudes and behaviours as part of developing a sustainable mind set.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Gouvernement du Canada
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 0662666674

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A Framework for Environmental Learning and Sustainability in Canada by Canada Pdf

Author : Erika Pénzesné Kónya,Martin Haigh,Josef Křeček
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030663841

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Environmental Sustainability Education for a Changing World by Erika Pénzesné Kónya,Martin Haigh,Josef Křeček Pdf

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this – one mind at a time. This book advances a future-oriented vision of the development of environmental sustainability education in settings outside the high-school. It provides practical guidance for teacher practitioners and policy makers in community-oriented environmental sustainability education. It promotes a modern holistic approach to sustainability learning in and by the community through participative engagement with sustainability issues. Its special foci include working with volunteers and citizen scientists, through museums or through re-purposing Higher Education. Its approach emphasises the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and cooperation with environmental management professionals. This book’s cosponsors include the International Association for Headwater Control and FAO – European Forestry Commission’s Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, as well as the International Environmental Education Conferences, Eger, Hungary and the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Subcommittee on Future Studies. Community education has long been a goal for environmental management, whose practitioners realise that interventions, such as biodiversity conservation, are only truly sustainable when supported by the local land-user and stakeholder communities; this depends upon these stakeholders’ understanding why intervention is necessary.

Author : Rodrigo Lozano,Maria Barreiro-Gen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030649654

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Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches by Rodrigo Lozano,Maria Barreiro-Gen Pdf

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences. The book brings together practice-based original research on the connection between developing sustainability competences and the pedagogical approaches used, utilizing a framework aimed at helping educators in creating and updating their courses to provide a more complete, holistic, and systemic sustainability education to future leaders, decision makers, educators, and change agents. Compared to previous works addressing SD in education, which often mostly cover tools for improving the sustainability of campus operations, this approach uses assessment tools to uniquely focus on how courses and programmes (i.e. curricula) incorporate SD. Through the case studies, readers will learn about how the 3 major groups of pedagogical approaches have been used: (1) Universal, meaning broadly applicable pedagogies that have been used in many disciplines and contexts; (2) Community and social justice, which are pedagogies developed specifically for use in addressing social justice and community-building; and (3) Environmental education, which are pedagogies emerging from environmental sciences and environmental education practices.

Author : Jane Singer,Tracey Gannon,Fumiko Noguchi,Yoko Mochizuki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317504443

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Educating for Sustainability in Japan by Jane Singer,Tracey Gannon,Fumiko Noguchi,Yoko Mochizuki Pdf

Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally relevant and emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving. This book explains how ESD approaches work in the Japanese context; their effects on different stakeholders; and their ultimate potential contribution to society in Japan. It considers ESD in both formal and informal education sectors, recognizing that even when classroom learning takes place it must be place-based and predicated on a specific community context. The book explores not only ‘Why ESD’, but why and how ESD in Japan has gained importance in the past decade and more recently in the wake of the triple disaster of March 2011. It considers how ESD can help Japan recover and adapt to disasters and take initiative in building more resilient and sustainable communities. This volume asks the questions: What are some examples of positive contributions by ESD to sustainability in Japan? What is the role of ESD in Japan in activating people to demand and work towards change? How can schools, universities and non-governmental organizations link with communities to strengthen civic awareness and community action? After an introduction that elucidates the roots and recent promotion of ESD in Japan, part one of this volume looks at the formal education sector in Japan, while part two examines community-based education and sustainability initiatives. The latter revisits the Tohoku region five years on from the events of March 2011, to explore recovery and revitalization efforts by schools, NGOs and residents. This is an invaluable book for postgraduate students, researchers, teachers and policy makers working on ESD.

Author : Charles Saylan,Daniel Blumstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520948723

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The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) by Charles Saylan,Daniel Blumstein Pdf

At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education—along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators alike, Saylan and Blumstein boldly argue that education today has failed to reach its potential in fighting climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. In this forward-looking book, they assess the current political climate, including the No Child Left Behind Act, a disaster for environmental education, and discuss how education can stimulate action—including decreasing consumption and demand, developing sustainable food and energy sources, and addressing poverty. Their multidisciplinary perspective encompasses such approaches as school gardens, using school buildings as teaching tools, and the greening of schoolyards. Arguing for a paradigm shift in the way we view education as a whole, The Failure of Environmental Education demonstrates how our education system can create new levels of awareness and work toward a sustainable future.

Author : Rosalyn McKeown,Victor Nolet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400742734

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Schooling for Sustainable Development in Canada and the United States by Rosalyn McKeown,Victor Nolet Pdf

Education for sustainable development (ESD) presents an intriguing challenge in developed countries. The very notion of sustainable development may appear to be at cross-purposes with the social and political aims of large industrial economies. Yet, arguably, the residents of wealthy countries may be most in need of new ways of thinking and behaving on an increasingly more fragile and crowded planet. This book presents a collection of essays that capture the depth and diversity of education for sustainable development (ESD) work in formal education in Canada and the United States. Many of the authors are pioneers in the field of ESD, not only in their own countries but internationally. In this book, they share their expertise, lessons learned, and insights into the ongoing success of their work. The essays reflect leading edge practice, innovation, and depth of experience and provide clear models and strategies for expanding the application and influence of ESD in wealthy countries. The ESD programs described in the book are relevant and culturally appropriate for the specific locally contexts in which they are found but also in the larger context of ESD writ large as a planetary endeavour.

Author : Julie Newman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781452266237

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Green Education by Julie Newman Pdf

Green Education: An A-to-Z Guide explores the environmental movement's proliferation in the field of education, from elementary school classroom efforts to the university curriculum to building sustainable campuses. Focusing on the critical role of education in building a sustainable future, approximately 150 signed entries, written by scholars and experts in a variety of disciplines, examine school and college courses in green education, the structures of educational institutions, the challenges of reducing their ecological footprint, administrative policies, green campus organizations, and student and faculty participation. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research.