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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Kelley, Rebecca L. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
This article reports on the novel design, and successful outcome, of an environmental education course designed for both practicing teachers and nonformal educators. Challenges in developing the course included the following: (1) the variable education and resource needs of course enrollees, (2) the lack of consistent science and environmental…
Descriptors: Models, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
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Moseley, Christine; Huss, Jeanine; Utley, Juliana – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine change in environmental education teaching efficacy beliefs of K-12 teachers who participated in two weeks of an intensive summer earth systems science institute using the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) curriculum as the conceptual framework. Thirty-eight teachers…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
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Maloof, Joan – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2006
Experiential education has been promoted by John Dewey and Paulo Freire since the first half of the twentieth century. Freire called the type of teaching where students are passive "banking education." In this first person account I describe my shift from teaching environmental issues in the traditional style to teaching in an experiential style.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Student Evaluation