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Incorporating collaborative learning in teacher education to foster self-efficacy to implement environmental citizenship: an action research
- Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (Tel Aviv District)
Purpose: Engaging students in environmental citizenship to promote education for sustainability (EfS) as an explicit goal of academic courses is not common, notwithstanding wide consensus on its importance. Collaborative learning ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Freire’s hope in radically changing times: a dialogue for curriculum integration from science education to face the climate crisis
- Universidad de Chile (Region Metropolitana)
- Escuela Básica Playas Negras in Coronel
This article advances a dialogue for understanding curriculum integration as a form of radical pedagogy, starting from science education in times of climate crisis. The paper weaves Paulo Freire’s ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Students as co-researchers: Using participatory action research to address college food insecurity
- University of San Francisco (CA)
Studies indicate that college students experience high rates of food insecurity. Growing awareness of food insecurity on college campuses has resulted in efforts by many institutions to address the prob ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Building University Capabilities to Respond to Climate Change Through Participatory Action Research: Towards a Comparative Analytical Framework
- University of The South Pacific (Central Division)
- University College London (London)
- University of Passo Fundo
- Kenyatta University
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (England)
This paper aims to explore how the principles of participatory action research (PAR) articulate with questions of climate justice. Drawing on three qualitative case studies in Brazil, Fiji and Kenya ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Action research for education for sustainable development: the case of the university in-service course ‘education for sustainable development – innovations in school and teacher education (BINE)’
- University of Klagenfurt
- University of Education Upper Austria
The goal of the university professional development course BINE is to encourage participants to address education for sustainable development (ESD) in a reflective way. The main aims are for the ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Growing action research on environmental learning in schools: a school-university partnership
- University of Toronto (ON)
A team of teacher-researchers in a large urban school board is working in partnership with researchers from a leading Canadian university to use action research to broaden and deepen environmental ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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5 Year Report NC Collaboratory 2016-2021
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
In 2016 the NC General Assembly authorized the creation of the NC Policy Collaboratory headquartered at UNC Chapel Hill. In the five years since, the Collaboratory has funded more than ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2022
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Another Just Transition: Community-Engaged Research and Learning for Environmental Justice
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
To contribute to a just transition to a regenerative economy and an equitable society, academia can accelerate its own shift toward conducting more community-engaged research (CER) for environmental justice (EJ ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Redefining action competence: The case of sustainable development
- University of Antwerp
- Karlstad University
The concept of Action Competence (AC) has been interpreted in different ways in various domains of the educational sciences. Given the rising scholarly attention to AC, these diverse interpretations are ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
- Monash University (VIC)
Within the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE), the interaction between ESE research and ESE policy has received limited attention. Beyond ESE, however, the research-policy relationship has become an ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
- Utrecht University
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The growing ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Transgressing Boundaries between Community Learning and Higher Education: Levers and Barriers
- Wageningen University
- Corporación Nuh Jay
- Aldeafeliz ecoaldea (Cundinamarca)
- Alianzas para la Abundancia
- Fundación Mentes en Transición
In times of global systemic dysfunction, there is an increasing need to bridge higher education with community-based learning environments so as to generate locally relevant responses towards sustainability challenges. This ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Nurturing environmental citizenship by mapping the field of action
- Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (Tel Aviv District)
- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (ADSSC)
Purpose Students' simplistic observations and uninspired solutions for social-ecological dilemmas were the motivation for this study. The purpose of this paper is to foster systemic thinking in students and study ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Weaving Change
- OCAD University (ON)
The purpose of undertaking this research project was to evaluate the likelihood of success of a Coalition of Graduate Programs in tackling issues of Sustainability. 63 Graduate Programs in Canada ...
- Posted April 17, 2020
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Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability is the hub of Arizona State University’s sustainability initiatives. The ASU Wrigley Institute advances research, education and business practices for an ...
- Posted May 22, 2019
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A critical realist inquiry in conducting interdisciplinary research: an analysis of LUCID examples
- Lund University
In recent years, a strong natural science hegemony has predominantly framed our understanding of sustainability challenges and, as a result, the production of solution strategies. In countering this, some academic ...
- Posted Nov. 13, 2018
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Prefiguring Sustainability through Participatory Action Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Reflections and Recommendations for Student Development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Colorado State University (CO)
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
PAR-based UREs are undergraduate research experiences (UREs)—built into university-community partnerships—that apply principles of participatory action research (PAR) towards addressing community-defined challenges. In this paper, we advance PAR-based UREs ...
- Posted Nov. 13, 2018
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Becoming a Social Organism: Action Research Turns Environmental Research Into a Sustainable Act
- Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
"What is the impact of my work on the environment?", asks designer and educator Victor Papanek in the first chapter of his revolutionary 1995 book, The Green Imperative. Papanek's ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Campus Action Research Advances Sustainable Development Goals
- George Mason University (VA)
- Universidad de Monterrey
Across North American college campuses, learners seek to enhance our sustainability competency through acting locally to advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainability Action Research (SAR) provides a ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Integrating Participatory Action Research Into Internships and Outreach - Univ of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is Chicago's only public research university with 30,000 students, 15 colleges, a hospital and a health sciences system. This session introduces ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Dimensions of professional competences for interventions towards sustainability
- Open University of the Netherlands
- University of Derby
- The Open University
This paper investigates sustainability competences through the eyes of professional practitioners in the field of sustainability and presents empirical data that have been created using an action research approach. The ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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The I3E model for embedding education for sustainability within higher education institutions
- University of Southampton
This paper presents an evidence-based model (the I3E model) for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) within a higher education institution. This model emerged from a doctoral research that examined organizational ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 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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Incorporating education for sustainability into management education: how can we do this?
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
The area of sustainability has begun to receive increasing attention in management education. New ways of including the topic of sustainability in higher education are being discussed. Nonetheless, the question ...
- 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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sustainability and the arts of democracy, innovating engaged learning
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
this four person panel showcases an innovative engaged learning project. attached to graduate and undergraduate courses with parallel content, the project brings first year students, graduate students, faculty, and community ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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