Download or read book A Study of Seven Environmental Factors Affecting Negro High School Students in Bladen County North Carolina with Suggestions for Meeting Their Implied Social Needs written by Robert Davis Tynes and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Study of Environmental Factors as Possible Determinants of Political Awareness in Adolescent Negro High School Students written by Ruth P. Rubinstein and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ecological Knowledge and Verbal Environmental Commitment of African American Middle School Students in a Suburban Texas School written by Desiree Heyns and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's kindergarteners will be retiring in the year 2075. We have no idea what the world will look in five years, much less 60 years, and the idea of a changing world can be daunting (Kellner, 2000). At the same time, today's youth will be assuming leadership roles with the responsibility of environmental stewardship and the task of implementing actions for a sustainable world. The future is uncertain, however, preparing our children for a life focused on balancing the environment while sustaining a growing human population is a critical concern. These issues will require our youth to effectively deal with challenges in the social, economic and political arenas on local, national and global levels (Smith & Sobel, 2010). To address the many uncertainties, and relinquish unanticipated or unintended consequences, students today will need more than superficial knowledge or awareness of disconnected environmental issues (ELC, 2008). Our vision of global sustainability will involve a true understanding of the balance between human needs and our natural resources. To carry out these tasks and manage the quality of the environment, our children must be an environmentally literate citizenry who can identify, solve, and prevent environmental issues collectively. However, there is great concern that an informed public with the necessary skills to address environmental issues at their root will not be prepared for the task (Hollweg et al., 2011). Science education reform proponents explicitly put forward the idea that all students, regardless of culture, gender, race, or socioeconomic status, are capable of understanding and doing science (Barnett et al., 2006). However, very little research has been published on the subject of African American middle school students and environmental literacy. The lack of empirical information about young people's environmental views will require further examination. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of ecological knowledge and verbal commitment among a group of sixth, seventh and eighth grade African American students in a suburban Texas middle school. The Middle School Environmental Literacy Survey (MSELS) was used to collect data (Hungerford et al., 2005). All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). The mean scores of the sample population were compared to data collected by the developers of the instrument using an ethnically diverse population in a national setting (McBeth, Hungerford, Marcinkowski, Volk, & Cifranick, 2011). Additionally, two secondary analyses were conducted. First, an independent samples t-test was conducted to determine if gender affected the scores. Second, a one-way between-groups analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted to explore the impact of grade differences on both components of environmental literacy. For the ecological knowledge component, the survey results indicate the seventh grade mean score (M=13.18) from this research outscored the seventh grade mean (M=11.89) from the national scores by 1.29 points, a difference of 7 percent, indicating the suburban seventh grade students in Texas have more ecological knowledge than the national average. The national mean data indicate the sixth and eighth grade students outscored the students from this sample by 1.49 and 1.18 points respectfully. For verbal commitment, the national data outscored the study sample by less than one point across all three grades in their willingness to commit to pro-environmental behavior. However, the 12-item measure overall mean scores from sixth, seventh and eighth grades (M=42.98) from this study outscored the eighth grade (M=42.89) national data. When composite scores were calculated on high, moderate and low levels of environmental literacy, Knowledge domain data indicates the seventh grade students have a high level of ecological knowledge (46.51 out of 60), but the sixth (35.01 out of 60) and eighth (38.82 out of 60) grades fall into the upper moderate levels of the domain. When sixth, seventh, and eighth grade scores were combined, the composite score from this sample scored just under a high level of knowledge (39.84 out of 60). For the Environmental Affect domain (one-half the total points), the composite score for sixth grade (22.19) was highest, followed by the eighth (21.05), then seventh (20.87) grade students. When compared to the national composite scores for this domain (McBeth et al., 2011), all three grades, sixth (22.63), seventh (21.67), and eighth (21.41) were slightly higher than this sample. The analysis of gender returned different results. Gender did not appear to play a role in either component of environmental literacy. The results from a one way analysis of variance on How You Think About the Environment (verbal commitment) indicate more variance exists within groups than between groups (F = 2.95, df = 2, p> .05). The data indicate no statistically significant difference among the mean scores of the three groups from the population sample. In calculating the effect size, Eta squared = .02, which is considered small.
Download or read book History of Edgecombe County North Carolina written by Joseph Kelly Turner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Significance of Urban Pests written by Xavier Bonnefoy and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century witnessed important changes in ecology, climate and human behaviour that favoured the development of urban pests. Most alarmingly, urban planners now face the dramatic expansion of urban sprawl, in which city suburbs are growing into the natural habitats of ticks, rodents and other pests. Also, many city managers now erroneously assume that pest-borne diseases are relics of the past. All these changes make timely a new analysis of the direct and indirect effects of present-day urban pests on health. Such an analysis should lead to the development of strategies to manage them and reduce the risk of exposure. To this end, WHO invited international experts in various fields - pests, pest-related diseases and pest management - to provide evidence on which to base policies. These experts identified the public health risk posed by various pests and appropriate measures to prevent and control them. This book presents their conclusions and formulates policy options for all levels of decision-making to manage pests and pest-related diseases in the future. [Ed.]
Download or read book Time Before History written by H. Trawick Ward and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the state's prehistory and archaeological discoveries
Download or read book Blacks in the Marine Corps written by Henry I. Shaw, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this monograph was published almost 30 years ago, then History and Museums Director Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons wrote: "Today's generation of Marines serve in a fully integrated Corps where blacks constitute almost one-fifth of our strength. Black officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates are omnipresent, their service so normal a part of Marine life that it escapes special notice. The fact that this was not always so and that as little as 34 years ago (in 1941) there were no black Marines deserves explanation." This statement holds true for this edition of Blacks in the Marine Corps, which has already gone through several previous reprintings. What has occurred since the first edition of Blacks in the Marine Corps has been considerable scholarship and additional writing on the subject that deserve mention to a new generation of readers, both in and outside the Corps. First and foremost is Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.'s Integration of the Armed Forces 1940-1965 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1981) that documents the Armed Forces efforts as part of the Defense Studies Series. The volume is an excellent history of a social topic often difficult for Service historical offices to deal with.
Download or read book The History of Education in North Carolina written by Charles Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Democracy Betrayed written by David S. Cecelski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of the campaign was the Wilmington "race riot" of 1898, which claimed the lives of many black residents and rolled back decades of progress for African Americans in the state. Published on the centennial of the Wilmington race riot, Democracy Betrayed draws together the best new scholarship on the events of 1898 and their aftermath. Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy. The contributors are David S. Cecelski, William H. Chafe, Laura F. Edwards, Raymond Gavins, Glenda E. Gilmore, John Haley, Michael Honey, Stephen Kantrowitz, H. Leon Prather Sr., Timothy B. Tyson, LeeAnn Whites, and Richard Yarborough.
Download or read book Nearby History written by David E. Kyvig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Second Edition of Nearby History, the authors have updated all chapters, introduced information about internet sources and uses of newer technologies, as well as updated the appendices.
Download or read book How Race Is Lived in America written by Correspondents of The New York Times and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays which attempt to capture the raw emotions and candid words which often surround race relations in the United States.
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