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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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Effeney, Gerard; Davis, Julie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This study investigated the relationships between knowledge and efficacy for teaching sustainability in a sample of 266 pre-service primary teachers at a large, metropolitan university in Australia. A survey gathered information about the participant's attitudes and self-efficacy for education for sustainability, along with their perceived…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Sustainability, Preservice Teachers
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Brownlee, Joanne M.; Farrell, Ann; Davis, Julie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Over the last decade, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has pursued educational reform in elementary teacher education. Because elementary teachers and teacher education are central to the reform agenda, there is a need to gain empirical evidence about how PNG teacher trainers' understandings about learning and teaching impact on their practice. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Community Leaders, Elementary Education
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Brownlee, Joanne; Scholes, Laura; Farrell, Ann; Davis, Julie; Cook, Donna – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Leadership in elementary education is currently recognized as a political imperative in Papua New Guinea (PNG), as the nation develops strategies towards equitable access to schooling. One recent initiative aimed at building educational leadership was an intensive Australian Leadership Award Fellowship (ALAF) program funded by AusAID, involving a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Elementary Education, Focus Groups, Leadership Training
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Gambino, Agatha; Davis, Julie; Rowntree, Noeleen – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2009
Field experiences for young children are an ideal medium for environmental education/education for sustainability because of opportunities for direct experience in nature, integrated learning, and high community involvement. This research documented the development--in 4-5 year old Prep children--of knowledge, attitudes and actions/advocacy in…
Descriptors: Animals, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Outdoor Education
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Davis, Julie; Ferreira, Jo-Anne – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2006
We are living in an era of market-driven, globalised economies characterised by reduced public investments in what, until now, have been considered public goods and services. In Australia and elsewhere, education, and higher education in particular, has seen steady declines in government funding. This has prompted universities to become much more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Research Administration
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Davis, Julie – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The early childhood education field has been slow to take up the challenge of sustainability. However, Brisbane's Campus Kindergarten is one early education centre that is making serious efforts in this regard. In 1997, Campus Kindergarten initiated its "Sustainable Planet Project" involving a variety of curriculum and pedagogical activities that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Sustainable Development, Child Care Centers