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Evaluating the Theory and Outcomes of the Teen Advocates for Sustainability Corps (TASC) Summit
- New York University (NY)
The attached research was written as my thesis for a Master of Arts in Environmental Conservation Education, from New York University. It analyzes an environmental advocacy program I developed for ...
- Posted Jan. 5, 2018
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Towards a Theory-Based Framework for Assessing the Mainstreaming of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Teacher Education Institutions in Botswana
This article presents the development of a theory-based framework for exploring the ways in which different teacher education institutions in Botswana have worked towards the infusion of education for sustainable ...
- Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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"Roll Up Your Sleeves and Get At It!" Climate Change Education in Teacher Education
- Lakehead University (ON)
We present findings from research on a nine-week elective course, Climate Change Pedagogy, taught for the first time in the Bachelor of Education program at Lakehead University in Winter 2014 ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2017
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Sustainability: Formative Assessments Across the Curriculum
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
Formative Assessments are the cog in the wheel of the educational assessment cycle. These assessments drive daily instruction, before, during and after instruction, informing the teacher of student understanding and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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The Mindful Praxis of Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
This longitudinal inquiry involving 250 teacher candidates per year for five years, explores methods that motivate teacher candidates to create and integrate mindful sustainability curriculum in practice. Elementary and secondary ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Learning Our Way Toward Resilience
- Island Press (DC)
- Post Carbon Institute (OR)
This is an excerpt of Chapter 14 from The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval. Resilience education is about building our individual and community capacities to ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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Earthday at Universidad de Monterrey
- Universidad de Monterrey
- Posted May 26, 2017
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The Roles of Policy, Conceptualizations, and Pedagogical Methods in Teaching about Sustainable Consumption in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This study sought to understand how sustainable consumption (SC) is taught within Canadian post-secondary education (PSE) institutions. More specifically, this study investigated how faculty define and conceptualize SC, both personally ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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High Performance Education Fails in Sustainability? - A Reflection on Finnish Primary Teacher Education
- Åbo Akademi University (Varsinais-Suomi)
- University of Helsinki
Sustainability is internationally often emphasized as an essential aim of higher education, but more as a principle than on the practical level. This is also obvious in the academic education ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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High School Outreach
- DePauw University (IN)
DePauw Sustainability Leadership Program members presented on Sustainable Agriculture to 600+ local high school students as part of the high school’s Earth Day celebration.
- Posted April 28, 2017
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Strategies Toward the Inclusion of Environmental Education in Educator Preparation Programs: Results from a National Survey
- Trinity University (TX)
- University of Texas at San Antonio (TX)
A national study was conducted to investigate the inclusion of environmental education (EE) into educator preparation programs across the United States. Responses from teacher educators in institutions of higher education ...
- Posted April 27, 2017
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In what ways are teacher candidates being prepared to teach about the environment? A case study from Wisconsin
There is an urgent need for primary and secondary students to develop awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and an environmental ethic necessary to undertake environmental issues and problems. The need to adequately ...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education: A synthesis of the literature
- Queensland University of Technology
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This study investigated how teacher education academics embed sustainability education in learning and teaching, using a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles. A taxonomy of four distinctive approaches was ...
- Posted April 24, 2017
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For function or transformation? A critical discourse analysis of education under the Sustainable Development Goals
- Clark University (MA)
We conduct a critical discourse analysis of the extent to which Sustainable Development Goal 4, “to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all and promote lifelong learning,” promotes a ...
- Posted April 12, 2017
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Educational Sustainability
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
The Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Sustainability program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ensures students will develop knowledge and skills in relation to education about sustainability and ...
- Posted April 3, 2017
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Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Remaking Education for the Future
- Lakehead University (ON)
This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a ...
- Posted March 28, 2017
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“I’m Just Going to Buy That!”: Confronting Consumerism in Teacher Education
- Nipissing University (ON)
As educators at a faculty of education, the authors found that teacher candidates (TCs) invariably purchased new materials whenever they had an assignment requiring some form of construction activity. They ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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Education for sustainable development in Vietnam: lessons learned from teacher education
- Kyoto University
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to identify challenges in education for sustainable development (ESD) implementation in teacher education institutions (TEIs) in Vietnam and propose some appropriate solutions to ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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Using Greener Labs in High School and General Chemistry Courses
- Union University (TN)
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant and important topics in green chemistry education.
Presented by: Dr. Sally Henrie Professor of Chemistry ...
- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Selected Green Chemistry Metrics for Educators
- University of Toronto (ON)
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Green Chemistry Education Webinar Series: A new webinar series for chemistry faculty and students highlighting relevant topics in green chemistry education.
Presented by: Professor Andy Dicks Department of Chemistry University ...
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Applied Sustainability Education with a Systems Science Emphasis at a STEM University
- Florida Institute of Technology (FL)
In the southeastern U.S., the Sustainability Studies bachelors program at F.I.T. is one of the first of its type among STEM universities. A preliminary case study is ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2016
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Graduate Certificate of Education for Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This qualification develops skills and knowledge in sustainability and enables students to communicate these skills in educational settings. This course is relevant to teachers, trainers, school leaders, administrators, and others ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Education in Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
The Sustainability major in the Master of Education program develops enables students to communicate and innovate sustainability education programs in formal and informal education. This program is relevant to teachers ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Sustainability 2020
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Ten years ago, students in an honors seminar investigated ways to reduce Green Mountain College’s ecological footprint. The class identified the biggest source of carbon emissions–the college’s ...
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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A collaborative programme in sustainability and social responsibility
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to collect methodological strategies used in the training of future teachers to develop competences in sustainability and social responsibility (SSR). The proposal in ...
- Posted Sept. 12, 2016
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Learning sustainability leadership: An action research study of a graduate leadership course
- Portland State University (OR)
This study used action research methodology to examine the development of sustainability leadership in a graduate leadership course. The research investigated the impact of this leadership course, which was designed ...
- Posted Aug. 8, 2016
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A comparative review of policy and practice for education for sustainable development/education for global citizenship (ESD/GC) in teacher education across the four nations of the UK
The early 21st century has seen a period of extreme turbulence in education at all levels in the UK. Although education policy was administrated on a territorial basis before 1999 ...
- Posted July 21, 2016
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Pre-Service Teachers and Climate Change: A Stalemate?
- James Cook University (Queensland)
Findings from the second phase of a study of pre-service teachers’ attitudes to environmental education and knowledge of climate change are reported in this paper. A sample of 87 pre-service ...
- Posted June 20, 2016
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Eco-Schools Leadership Initiative (ESLI)
- College of William & Mary (VA)
I co-founded Eco-Schools Leadership Initiative (ESLI) (eslileaders.org) which is an after-school program where high school and college students teach elementary school students about the environment. There are six high ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Fully Online MA in Sustainable Design Program
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN)
MCAD’s online Master of Arts in Sustainable Design (MASD) program was developed for busy working professionals and offers small classes, peer-to-peer interaction and engagement with renowned faculty. The program ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Developing and Validating the Just Sustainability Inventory
- University of Georgia (GA)
Assessment and evaluation of programs are core components of ethical professional practice for student affairs administrators in higher education. This paper reports on the author’s dissertation research designing and ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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For the Planet Leadership Series: Building Sustainability Leadership in Higher Education
- University of North Texas (TX)
The “For the Planet Leadership Series” is a five-week professional development course planned, researched, and taught by Senior Alyssa Wolverton at the University of North Texas. Her goal was to ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Examining the Literature: A Bibliometric Study of ESD Journal Articles in the Education Resources Information Center Database
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Using the tool of bibliometry, this study examines journal articles related to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in academic journals from 1990 to 2005. It offers a statistical description of ...
- Posted May 6, 2016
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A bibliometric study on “Education for sustainability”
- University of São Paulo
The scientific production on “education for sustainability” has been growing in recent years what demonstrates the attention this subject has gathered. To better understand and characterize this trend, a bibliometric ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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Starting the pluralistic tradition of teaching? Effects of education for sustainable development (ESD) on pre-service teachers’ views on teaching about sustainable development
There is currently a well-established belief among politicians, scholars and university representatives that educational systems can produce positive attitudes towards sustainable development (SD) among citizens. This article investigates whether Education ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Understanding the connections between double bind thinking and the ecological crises: implications for educational reform
This paper examines several reasons most professors of education are unable to recognise that the ecological crises require more than technologies that have a smaller ecological footprint. First, there is ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Successes and snags of a sustainability course in higher education
- University of Arizona (AZ)
By means of an action-research methodological approach, this paper analyses the accomplishments and challenges of a university-wide course that offers sustainability theory and practice to help students adopt pro-sustainability behaviours ...
- Posted April 25, 2016
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Educating for sustainability: environmental pledges as part of tertiary pedagogical practice in science teacher education
Educating for sustainability has been a key principle underpinning the primary/middle undergraduate teacher education programme at an Australian University for the past decade. Educating for sustainability seeks to provide ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Learning for Sustainability (PgDip)
- University of Edinburgh
The Postgraduate Diploma builds on the Postgraduate Certificate’s three core courses: Introduction to Learning for Sustainability, Ecosystems for Educators and Outdoor Learning. A further four Postgraduate Diploma specific courses ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Learning for Sustainability (PgCert)
- University of Edinburgh
The Postgraduate Certificate is made up of three core courses: Introduction to Learning for Sustainability, Ecosystems for Educators, and Outdoor Learning. The overall aim of the programme is to introduce ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Learning for Sustainability (MSc)
- University of Edinburgh
This MSc is an opportunity to study the ways schooling, community and higher education respond to issues such as climate change, resource depletion, inequality and well-being, and ecological and economic ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Otago (Otago)
This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability ...
- Posted April 14, 2016
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Teaching and Learning Sustainable Chemistry K-16: From Classroom Application and Analysis to Assessment and Refinement
- Colorado State University (CO)
This presentation explores aspects of 'sustainable chemistry.' The research assesses the challenges of 'teaching sustainable chemistry' in K-16 classrooms through an experimental course, CHEM/EDUC580 at Colorado State University with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Engaging K-12 educators in Sustainability Science: Case study on urban sustainability systems at Arizona State University
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Universities often include education & outreach as part of their broader impacts. However, research endeavors of faculty are typically presented through one-way forms of dissemination (i.e., presentations, articles, and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Sustainability, Community and Service from Middle-School through Higher Education
- Saint John's University (MN)
In a collaboration between the St. John's University School of Education, the Office of Sustainability, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grow NYC, Queens Botanic Gardens and the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Integration of Sustainability Education into Pre-service Teacher Preparation
- Western Washington University (WA)
In Washington state, beginning Fall, 2009, all new teacher candidates will need to provide student-based and teacher-based evidence demonstrating they are able to prepare effective citizens for an environmentally sustainable ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
This presentation outlines an innovative approach to training graduate students to be effective teachers of sustainability in academic, K-12, community, and professional environments. Because most of our graduate students will ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Ecocritical Praxis: Re-establishing the "Principle of Relevance"
- The University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
The term "ecocriticism" was coined by William Reuckert, who proposed, in 1976, that literary criticism shift its locus to "a principle of relevance": he suggested that critics "experiment with the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research was established in 2004 with the generous support of Lowell and Jan Steinbrenner to change the way the world thinks and acts ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Sustainability Education
- Dickinson College (PA)
The Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) creates, enhances and connects opportunities for learning about sustainability in and out of the classroom. Working with a variety of partners, CSE supports activities ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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