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Direct linkWesselink, Renate; Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2011
This qualitative study explores the meanings and possible merits of introducing competence profiles for enhancing professional development in the environmental education sector in the Netherlands. It presents the three most important environmental education jobs and their underlying competencies alongside their core professional challenges, as…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Professional Development
Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Bawden, Richard; Blackmore, Chris; Tidball, Keith G.; Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
In this paper, we address the challenge of translating the concept of resilience into effective educational strategies. Three different cognitive dimensions ("ontological," "epistemological" and "axiological") that underpin assumptions held about the nature of nature, the nature of knowing and the nature of human nature are identified. Four case…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
This contribution provides an "outside" commentary on several of the articles provided in this special issue on environmental education and education in the context of sustainability in Denmark and Sweden. Although there is no uniform position or shared single outlook expressed in the articles in this special issue, there are some re-current…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Democracy, Sustainable Development, Cultural Pluralism
Dillon, Justin; Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2006
In this article, the authors caution against blurring methods, methodologies and ideologies in research. They do this by drawing on two earlier articles in "Environmental Education Research" that focused on this issue as well but from quite different vantage points: Hart's (2000) paper in which he problematizes the generating of generic guidelines…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Ideology
Peer reviewedLijmbach, Susanne; Margadant-Van Arcken, Marjan; Van Koppen, C. S. A. (Kris); Wals, Arjen E. J. – Environmental Education Research, 2002
Describes a multidisciplinary action research project to develop a theoretical framework and four exemplary teaching modules for elementary and secondary school that promote a pluralistic view on nature. Presents the theoretical framework that was developed during the project. Describes the teaching modules and delineates one of the modules.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedWals, Arjen E. J.; Alblas, Art H. – Environmental Education Research, 1997
Describes a case study with four teachers from a secondary agricultural school using an action research model to examine their teaching practice and materials with the intent of developing an environmental dimension to their teaching. Presents the research and development process, the main outcomes, and implications for environmental education.…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Reflective Teaching, Secondary Education
