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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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Howard, Patrick – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
This article provides an overview of the context, methodology, and theoretical framework of a research project conducted with coastal Newfoundland children living in communities deeply affected by the collapse of the marine ecosystem. Through a participatory engagement with bioregional poetry, the author investigates how children grow in their…
Descriptors: Ecology, Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Poetry
Pleasants, Kathleen – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2006
"The Lorax," written by children's author Dr. Seuss in 1971, has been used extensively by educators with participants of all ages in outdoor and environmental education. This paper results from a critical reflection upon my own practice of employing "The Lorax" as a teaching resource with senior secondary and tertiary students in Australia. The…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Critical Reading, Foreign Countries, Educational Resources
Payne, Phillip – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
This study of a young learner's scientific and artistic "sensibilities" in and about a beach place adds to the evidence base about learning in environmental education while contributing to discussions about "emerging genres" of enquiry. The study pays strong attention to the learner's quest for "coherence" in "coming to know" about the two "ways…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Researchers, Phenomenology
Rickinson, Mark; Sanders, Dawn – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
In a recent review of school grounds research, Dyment (2004a) highlights a lack of studies on the "process" of school grounds improvement, particularly in the secondary school context. This paper seeks to respond to this gap in the literature by reporting emerging findings from a three-year action research study of six English secondary schools…
Descriptors: Action Research, Student Participation, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Puk, Tom; Behm, Dustin – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
In 2000, the Ontario Ministry of Education removed "Environmental Science" from the secondary school curriculum as single-focus, stand-alone courses. Instead, the Ministry chose to integrate or "infuse" ecological concepts in other science and geography courses. In this study, surveys were sent out to science and geography teachers across the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
Daskolia, Maria; Flogaitis, Evgenia – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
This study primarily aimed to suggest a theoretically and empirically valid definition for the construct of teachers' competence in environmental education. The study was designed and developed in two phases. We first attempted to formulate a hypothetical model of teachers' competence in environmental education, based on a specification of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Role