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'Over to You': Considering the Purpose of Education through a Student-Centred Sustainability Project
Jackson, Kirsty – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
The school strikes for climate action that began with Greta Thunberg in 2018 and spread worldwide in 2019, left many young people to ponder 'what is the "point" of education if we have no future?' In this investigation of a student-centred project on sustainability conducted with Year 4 students in Brisbane, the "point" of…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Student Centered Learning, Student Projects, Sustainability
Morris, Michael C. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
Guidelines for sustainability linked to the government-approved National Curriculum for education in New Zealand emphasise values of empathy and respect for all life. These instruct educators to discuss different values around sustainability and conservation. I reviewed educational resources published or endorsed by government agencies to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Empathy, Sustainability
Birdsall, Sally; Kelly, Tim – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
Throughout the world, Aotearoa-New Zealand is recognised for its extraordinary biodiversity. However, many species that make up this distinctive biodiversity are under threat of extinction due to human impacts, such as the ill-considered introduction of particular animals. Many New Zealanders participate in the protection and restoration of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Biodiversity
Osgood, Jayne; Odegard, Nina – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
In this paper we explore what decentring the child in posthumanism does to our research practices, to our conceptualisations of and relationalities to the child. Crucially, we explore the imperative for other ways to encounter the child -- that pursue a decolonising and de/recentralising agenda. We pursue tentacular lines of enquiry through a…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Sensory Experience, Teaching Methods, Sustainability
Beasy, Kim – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Critical discourses of sustainability challenge modern rhetoric of economic growth and challenge current modes of social development. Yet sustainability discourses are shaped predominantly by the perspectives and interests of middle-class, tertiary-educated urban policy makers or environmentalists, and have insufficiently engaged people beyond…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Social Class
Ip-Soo-Ching, Jean Marie; Zyngier, Suzanne; Nayeem, Tahmid – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
The discipline of knowledge management (KM) considers knowledge as potentially the most valuable organisational asset that must be shared among staff and stakeholders and even communities in order to yield considerable returns and benefits. However, in a real-world context, managers in industries such as high technology, manufacturing and finance…
Descriptors: Tourism, Ecology, Environmental Education, Parks
Jurdi-Hage, Rozzet; Hage, H. Sam; Chow, Henry P.H. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
Informed by Stern and colleagues' value-belief-norm theory and their earlier empirical work, we examined levels and predictors of cognitive and behavioural environmental concern (EC) of university students in a Canadian postsecondary context. Data for this study were obtained through completion of self-administered questionnaires from a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Undergraduate Students
Germein, Susan; Neema Vaishnava – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
Theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of education and activism in the Anthropocene will be enriched by an embrace of non-hegemonic thinking. Lakshmi Ashram, a small girls' school in the Himalayan mountains of Uttarakhand, India, provides an object lesson in thinking differently: in an imbrication of education/research/activism. This article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Activism, Educational Philosophy
Nielsen, Thomas W.; Ma, Jennifer S. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
Using hermeneutic phenomenology to aid the reader 'experience' the data collected, this study reports on 18 college students, 4 staff members and the author's trip to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef. It is a story of the (re)discovery of the social and natural ecologies that bind us together, and of how explicit teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, Ecology, Sustainability
Prabawa-Sear, Kelsie; Dow, Vanessa – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
This research was commissioned by the (then) Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to provide recommendations on how to best support Western Australian (WA) secondary schools to engage in education for sustainability (EfS). The research aims were to identify barriers and benefits to being involved in EfS, the support systems required…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Barriers
Almeida, Sylvia C.; Moore, Deborah; Barnes, Melissa – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
This article presents findings from a study that evaluated the impact of an Australian sustainability initiative, with a view to unravelling the realities of teachers' implementation approaches. The paper outlines a study that reviews a government initiative in early years, primary and secondary educational settings that uses the Data Collection,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Gal, Adiv; Gan, Dafna – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
Using the perspectives, behaviours, and environmental values, beliefs, and norms of a school's staff, we investigated the features of a long-term environmental education program. This case study answers the following questions: How has the Lesser Kestrel environmental education program survived for almost two decades and become institutionalised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students
Izadpanahi, Parisa; Tucker, Richard – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
While there are many environmental education programs for children, few studies have used an appropriately developed scale for evaluating how such education might have on impact on children's environmental orientations. The research presented in this article adapted the NEP (New Ecological Paradigm) for Children scale to develop a new instrument…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Environment
Casinader, Niranjan; Kidman, Gillian – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
Common notions around the concept of sustainability tend to be framed within the values and principles that the world's natural environments need to be used and managed in such a way as to make them available for future generations. Consequently, pedagogical approaches in environmental education that follow this intellectual thread tend to adopt a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Geography, Inquiry
van Rooy, Wilhelmina – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Clean Up Australia Day is the country's largest community-based environmental annual event when participants work in teams to remove rubbish from their local environment. This article describes an interpretive study in which a sample of preservice primary teachers' (n = 30) responses to questions about their involvement in the event were evaluated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Environment, Community Programs