Calls for developing holistic environmental undergraduate programs that promote sustainability, recognize species equality, and achieve a balance between opposing values of Western society. Current undergraduate environmental education programs at Canadian universities overemphasize resource conservation, promote the dominant scientific worldview,…

Challenges misconceptions suggesting that outdoor and adventure experiences lead participants to advocate protection of natural areas, to value aesthetic experiences, to appreciate and understand the environment more deeply, to develop a spiritual relationship with the natural world, and to fight for environmental causes. (LP)

Describes a year-long environmental education program for elementary and secondary students based on telling a personal story that reflects the current environmental situation and developing a personal environmental action plan to improve the situation. Suggests related individual learning activities, group learning activities, and field trips.…

Provides ideas about how to add variety, flavor, texture, and nutrition to outdoor meals by dehydrating food and using it on camping trips. The goal is to prepare nutritious and appealing meals without spending a lot of money on commercially dehydrated or freeze-dried foods. Includes instructions for rehydrating foods. (LP)

Discusses the importance of sustainable living and action and touches on the role of the church in environmental education and action at the community level. (LZ)

An investigation of the application of an Environmental Impact Assessment system in a culture distanced from historic democratic processes. (LZ)

Studied invariance of ratio through an investigation of 16 sixth graders' understanding of taste constancy. Results showed an absence of taste constancy among the children and that they based their judgment of the relative strength of the taste of two samples from the same mixture on extraneous variables. (21 references) (Author/MKR)

Examined the evolving knowledge and beliefs of a preservice secondary mathematics teacher in a mathematics education course that emphasized mathematical and pedagogical connections and applications of the function concept. Although her understanding of function changed substantially, her anticipated approach to teaching did not. (29 references)…

Annotated listing of research summaries, articles, and dissertations in mathematics education reported in 1993. Grade or age levels are indicated for each citation. Articles and dissertations are indexed by mathematics education topic. Includes a list of the journals searched. (427 citations) (MKR)

This paper attempts to analyze current research on kindergartens, to assess kindergartens' contribution to public school education, and to provide Mississippi legislators and educators with a basis for making decisions concerning a state supported kindergarten program. A chart summarizing legislation relating to kindergarten in the 50 states…

This paper focuses on the change in the growth rate in schools by looking at some of the available data and rearranging it in ways that explain the flattened growth rate. The analysis begins with an overview of the market--past, present, and future. From there, future prospects for the school business are estimated. Declining enrollments, a tight…

This paper summarizes the results of a participant observation study conducted on two public alternative high schools in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. Phase I of the study consists of a literature-generated delineation of larger societal factors which create student unrest and give impetus to the development of alternative schools.…

The bulletin presents data taken in the fall of 1973 for the National Center for Educational Statistics' National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. The study surveyed approximately 22,000 high school seniors in 1,200 schools in the spring of 1972. Sixty-two percent of vocational-technical, 24 percent of general education, and 12…

Some 286 items relating to counseling and information services for adult learners in North America are cited, and abstracts are given for 144 of them considered most significant. Trends and issues revealed by the literature are discussed in an introductory section. Citations with and without abstracts are listed together under the following…

This report is intended to provide school authorities with information useful in arranging courses of study and in providing proper conditions, to assist teachers in choosing instructional materials and in handling them according to the best teaching methods available, and to lay a foundation for articulating the movement for improved teaching of…