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ERIC Number: EJ1181073
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-2255-7547
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Sustainability Education in Elementary Classrooms: Reported Practices of Alumni from a Pre-Service Teacher Course
Merritt, Eileen G.; Archambault, Leanna; Hale, Annie E.
Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, v9 n1 p18-35 Jun 2018
The article reflects results from a web-based survey of early career teachers who had taken a required, hybrid course focused on sustainability science. Many alumni reported early efforts to integrate sustainability topics and ways of thinking into their K-8 classrooms. Teachers reported modeling of classroom behaviors that promoted sustainability more than implementing sustainability into the curriculum. Read-aloud books and videos were used frequently, suggesting the need for available high-quality children's books and videos on sustainability topics. Supports that were most helpful to teachers included school-wide initiatives, curricular and instructional resources, like-minded colleagues and supportive administrators. Lack of time and alignment with curricula were barriers that hindered some teachers' progress, suggesting the importance of systemic curricular reform that brings awareness to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Arizona
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