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Environmental Education (Minor)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
The undergraduate minor in Environmental Education is offered to students interested in building environmental literacy among pre-K through adult audiences. Environmental literacy includes environmental awareness and knowledge, pro-environmental attitudes and ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Northern State University (SD)
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Teacher education is pivotal to advancing pedagogies, practices, and content knowledge that promote sustainability literacy in formal education settings. To explore preservice teachers’ (PST) readiness to implement transformative sustainability learning ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Some Reflections on the Role of the Eco-Schools Program in the Promotion of Sustainable HEIs: A Case Study in Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Currently, the Eco-Schools program plays a key role in the application of the concepts of environmental education and management in the daily life of schools. This program is considered the ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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When students write comedy scripts: humor as an experiential learning method in environmental education
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
Humor has received increasing attention in environmental educational research in recent years as it can have a variety of positive effects on learning atmosphere, outcomes, and student-educator relationships. In most ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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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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Which “sustainable university” are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature
- Uppsala University
The remarkably growing body of academic literature on the university in relation to sustainability pivots around the idea that the university has an important role to play regarding this issue ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education
- Beijing Normal University
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe
In this short article, we pose six key questions that we argue as essential to critically problem-pose in achieving teaching for justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education (HE). We ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Light Green – A Case Study of Sustainability Decoupling in Hospitality Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
Despite an increased commitment to sustainability, some argue that the hospitality industry and its supporting academic field remain “light green” as actual sustainability initiatives are shallow and decoupled from stated ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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What’s In a Name? The Signifiers and Empty Signifiers of Environmental Sustainability Education: Implications for Teacher Education
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- Brock University (ON)
The purpose of this article is to examine how signifiers and empty signifiers may contribute to the mainstreaming of environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. We argue that the ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Exploring Effective Pedagogies in Environmental and Sustainability Education for Teachers: A Story of New Zealand Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Experiences
- University of Auckland
Although teachers have been identified as key change agents in the shift towards a flourishing planet for all, research into effective pedagogies for embedding environmental and sustainability education (ESE) into ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Alignment among environmental programs in higher education: What Food-Energy-Water Nexus concepts are covered in introductory courses?
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- Rider University (NJ)
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Northern Colorado (CO)
- Whitman College (WA)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Environmental behavior of university students
- University of Malaga (Malaga)
- ESIC University
Purpose: This study aims to build a model for the analysis of the environmental behavior of university students.
Design/methodology/approach: A partial least square method was adopted, and a ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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The importance of the Sustainable Development Goals to students of environmental and sustainability studies—a global survey in 41 countries
- Goethe University Frankfurt
To fight the global problems of humanity, the United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve these goals, it is necessary that future decision-makers and stakeholders in ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- University of Maine (ME)
High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide instructional guidance for students’ engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals of this research ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Environmental and Informal Science Education
- Florida Institute of Technology (FL)
The master of science in environmental and informal science education develops and enhances knowledge of subject matter and educational theory, research and practice in environmental education or informal science education ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Education Minor
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
Students must meet with a college advisor or declare a minor and review the course requirements. A grade of C or higher is required for all courses in the minor ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Online Education Certification Program
- Yale University (CT)
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) offers an online education certificate program. As part of the School’s strategic goals, through the use of new technology, F&ES ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Outdoor & Environmental Education Minor
- Central Michigan University (MI)
This minor provides students with essential skills necessary to inspire future stewards, education people of all ages and from all backgrounds in both formal and informal settings. This skill set ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Program of Education for Sustainable Development (Interdisciplinary Program of Education, College of Education)
- National Tsing Hua University
“Program of Education for Sustainable Development” is the first interdisciplinary program in Taiwan to focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Education’s innovative and interdisciplinary framework. The wide range ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Developing leadership qualities in environmental sustainability through university co-curricular activities
- University of Calgary (AB)
This study aims to provide insight into the question of whether graduate students who deliver environmental education workshops/residencies to elementary school children will develop environmental sustainability leadership qualities in ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Environmental sustainability in higher education: Mapping the field
- University of Magdalena
- University of Barcelona
A considerable amount of literature has been published on environmental sustainability in the context of higher education. However, no previous studies have investigated how environmental sustainability has evolved in the ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes
- Universitat de València
This article examines the effect of different educational approaches to environmental education (EE) in the environmental attitudes of 507 preservice teachers. In one experimental group EE was addressed in a ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Collaborative reflection on environmental practices: a vehicle for environmental education in teacher education
- Lahore College for Women University
- University of Education Lahore (Punjab)
- Beaconhouse National University
Environmental education and sustainability education have emerged as a key focus in teacher education in the past few decades. Researchers have investigated the impact of different pedagogies on pre-service teachers ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Campus sustainability in an entrepreneurial framework
- Iona College (NY)
The authors test their environmental entrepreneurship framework using a Trash-to-Treasure experiential learning activity. The authors observed student entrepreneurs coordinate entrepreneurial efforts in a real-life context and collaborate with stakeholders across ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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From environmental education to education for sustainable development in higher education: a systematic review
- Universidad de Salamanca
In education concerning environmental issues, there are two predominant currents in the world, environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is the formal commitment and therefore promoted ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Planning to overcome perceived barriers: environmental and sustainability education, inclusion, and accessibility
- Université de Saint-Boniface (MB)
Integrating environmental and sustainability education (ESE) approaches into faculty of education classrooms that are inclusive of learners with a broad range of diverse needs can seem daunting. Our purpose is ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Climate change concern among youth: Examining the role of civics and institutional trust across 22 countries
- Columbia University (NY)
Although scholars have long documented perceptions of climate change and the public’s evolving response to the perceived risk it poses, only more recently have these analyses begun to examine ...
- 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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Turtle Island (North America) Indigenous Higher Education Institutions and Environmental Sustainability Education
- University of Waterloo (ON)
This article explores the environmental and sustainability programs of Indigenous Higher Education Institutions (IHEIs) in North America. There are 38 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States and 26 ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont
- University of Vermont (VT)
Project Green Schools was delighted to host A Discussion About Environmental Justice in Vermont in partnership with Vermont House Speaker, Conor Kennedy, Shelburne Farms, VT FEED, Hunger Free Vermont, VEEP ...
- Posted May 9, 2022
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Education Through Service-Learning
- Husson University (ME)
- Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)
- Maine Campus Compact (ME)
In 2017, in partnership with Campus Compact offices throughout Southern New England, Maine Campus Compact (MCC) awarded subgrants to 14 interdisciplinary faculty teams across four states (CT, MA, ME, NH ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Central Sustainability
- Central Michigan University (MI)
Prior to 2020, Central Michigan University (CMU) lacked an Office of Sustainability, or any structures which ensured the pursuit of sustainability initiatives on campus and in the community. Two student ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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How Teaching Affects Student Attitudes towards the Environment and Sustainability in Higher Education: An Instructors’ Perspective
- The American College of Greece (Aghia Paraskevi)
In the rapidly changing, 21st century globalized world, with increasing environmental pressures and challenges, education for the environment and sustainability is a priority at all levels; from kindergarten to higher ...
- 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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Leveraging sport as a venue and vehicle for transformative sustainability learning
- State University of New York at Cortland (NY)
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Given greater awareness of environmental issues and the acceleration of climate change, universities are increasingly requiring undergraduate students to complete coursework in environmental issues. Research has shown that environmental courses ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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‘Business as Usual’: Critical Management Studies and the Case of Environmental Sustainability Education
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- University of South Australia
The inclusion of sustainability and ethics teachings in management education for many seems a positive step forward for creating more environmentally just and ethically sound managers. However, the type of ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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The Cruel Optimism of Transformative Environmental Education
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The article is a reflection on the author's experience teaching a Master's seminar in Philosophical Debates in Environmental Education. It frames the attachment to transformative environmental education as ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress
- University of Cambridge
- University of Sydney (NSW)
Research is increasingly identifying the issues of ecological distress, eco-anxiety and climate grief. These painful experiences arise from heightened ecological knowledge and concern, which are commonly considered to be de ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Locating a Course on Environmental Justice in Theories of Environmental Education and Global Citizenship
- University College London (London)
Environmental education is an increasingly important concern for policymakers and universities, as it is critical to the success of the broader agenda represented by the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Achieving ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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The Challenge of Global Environmental Change: Attitudinal Trends in Teachers-In-Training
- University of Vigo
- University of A Coruña (a Coruña)
The aim of our research was to study attitudinal trends in Spanish trainee teachers regarding Global Environmental Change (GEC), in order to identify elements that should be enhanced in their ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Democracy and the (missing) politics in environmental education
- Oberlin College (OH)
Our work as educators does not match the scope, scale, and urgency of the challenges we presently face and that our descendants will confront through the centuries of the “long ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Teaching environmental sustainability and responsibility in the Anthropocene: Overview of Tourism Studies in Spain
- Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia)
Tourism studies are showing an increasing interest in the analysis of environmental sustainability and responsibility in the Anthropocene epoch. In the Higher Education (HE) Tourism studies, new concepts and skills ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Reflections on integrating the political into environmental education through problem-based learning and political ecology
- University of Exeter (Devon)
This paper reflects on an undergraduate module at the University of Exeter (2018–2019) trialing a problem-based learning approach to the political ecologies of land. It found that this approach ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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From “education for sustainable development” to “education for the end of the world as we know it”
- University of British Columbia (BC)
In this article, we address the limitations of sustainable development as an orienting educational horizon of hope and change, given that mainstream development presumes the possibility of perpetual growth and ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Integrated Pathway in Outdoor Education
- Earlham College (IN)
The Outdoor Education Integrated Pathway is designed to prepare students for a leadership role in the Outdoor Education industry, and/or in programs with remote or extended fieldwork components. Through ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Environmental Education and Science Communication - Academic Graduate Certificate
- University of Idaho (ID)
The MOSS Graduate Certificate is designed for motivated Ph.D. or M.S. students who wish to diversify their skill set and broaden the impact of their graduate work by ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Land-Based Indigenous Education (MED)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This Master of Education course-based graduate program of study offers courses with a land-based focus. This focus includes intensive land-based field institutes where students take graduate level courses framed within ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Environmental Education and Interpretation (BS)
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Environmental Education teaches people of all ages about the natural environment, so that they can make informed decisions on how to care for it. Interpretation is a communications process that ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Environmental Studies, Preparation for Teaching (BA)
- San Jose State University (CA)
This major, offered by the Department of Environmental Studies, is designed for students interested in teaching in elementary school or middle school. Students who wish to pursue a high school ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Earth Science (BA)
- San Jose State University (CA)
The B.A. in Earth Science provides a broad background in the Earth Sciences. It is a path for students planning on teaching science in middle schools and high schools ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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