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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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Dreyfus, Amos; Wals, Arjen E. J.; van Weelie, Daan – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 1999
Claims that environmental education in a postmodern world will have to be sensitive to the ill-defined nature of emerging key concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Environmental Education, Modernization, Postmodernism
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; van der Leij, Tore – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 1997
Discusses different world views on the roles of both science and education in society, questions some of the arguments put forward by proponents of national standards for environmental education in the United States, and argues for an alternative form of quality assessment in environmental education which is process-based instead of product- or…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; van der Leij, Tore – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 1997
Presents a rejoinder to critiques of the article "Alternatives to National Standards in Environmental Education: Process-Based Quality." Discusses polarization of schools of thought in environmental education, suggested misunderstanding of behaviorism, and the compatibility of behavioristic and nonbehavioristic approaches to environmental…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education