Download or read book Environmental Education in Pre service Teacher Training Programs in Canadian Tertiary Institutions written by Emily Shu-Ying Lin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continually identified as one of the key agents of change, teachers play an important part in promoting and improving the capacity of individuals to address environmental and development issues and problems. The preparation of pre-service teachers is especially critical in achieving environmental and ethical awareness, as well as in developing the values, attitudes, skills and behaviours conducive to a sustainable future. However, despite being recognized as a major priority for research and action in many major international conferences on environmental education, environmental education research in pre-service programs has been given little attention in Canada. The only systematic national evaluation of environmental education at the teacher preparation level in Canada was conducted by John Towler (1980-81), nearly 20 years ago. Since Towler's (1980-81) survey, there have been few investigations examining the status of environmental education in Canadian pre-service teacher preparation programs. Towler surveyed pre-service teacher education programs across Canada and reported that many of the respondents at that time did not indicate a high level of commitment to implementing environmental education in teacher programs, despite the call for increased environmental education at all levels of education. This present study was an attempt to assess the status of environmental education at the teacher preparation level since Towler's study. A national survey using a modified version of Towler's questionnaire was distributed to all pre-service teacher training institutions across the Canadian provinces to determine the present level of environmental education which pre-service teachers receive in teacher preparation programs. In addition, two case studies examining the design, content, and methods of two pre-service teacher education courses with specialization in environmental education were conducted to understand and describe the nature of environmental education currently found in pre-service teaching programs. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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Download or read book Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education written by Douglas D. Karrow and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Roundtable 2016 brought together over seventy participants from across Canada, including educators, researchers, policy-makers, consultants, and community organizations. Over the course of three days, participants took part in keynote addresses, research colloquia, networking socials, and collaborative inquiry activities focused on Environmental Sustainability Education in Teacher Education (ESE-TE). Roundtable 2016 resulted in the publication of a National Action Plan containing action-oriented recommendations for enhancing ESE-TE, and a position statement titled “The Otonabee Declaration,” where delegates articulated their views regarding environmental degradation, the critical need for enhancing ESE-TE, and, the role educators, children, youth, educational institutions, policy makers, and Indigenous communities play in enhancing ESE-TE in Canada. This volume concludes with a discussion placing current Canadian ESE-TE theory and practice within an international context.
Download or read book Environmental Education in Canadian Teacher Education written by Simone Hélène Hanchet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education in Canadian Teacher Education written by Simone Héléne Hanchet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of complex global environmental challenges, the concept of teaching and learning for environmental sustainability was first articulated over thirty years ago in the Tbilisi Declaration that proposed that environmental education (EE) become a vital part of all pre-service and in-service teacher education. The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) reiterates the importance of reorienting teacher education toward sustainability. This study gauges whether, midway through the Decade- this objective is being met by Canadian pre-service teacher education programs. Building on the 1977-78 study by John Towler and a follow-up 1996 study conducted by Emily Lin on this topic, a questionnaire was distributed in 2009 to all pre-service teacher education institutions across Canada. The survey findings reveal that, for three decades, the number of Canadian pre-service teacher education institutions offering EE courses has remained low. The report outlines key obstacles to the integration of EE into pre-service teacher education programs in Canada and suggests policy solutions. It argues that reorienting teacher education toward sustainability should be a policy priority not only within teacher-education institutions, but at federal, provincial, and municipal levels of government and within school boards and individual schools.
Download or read book The Inclusion of Environmental Education in Science Teacher Education written by Alec Bodzin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how individual decisions affect the environment at local to global scales. Thus it is of fundamental importance to ensure that higher quality education about these ecological issues raises the environmental literacy of the general public. In order to achieve this, teachers need to be trained as well as classroom practice enhanced. This volume focuses on the integration of environmental education into science teacher education. The book begins by providing readers with foundational knowledge of environmental education as it applies to the discipline of science education. It relates the historical and philosophical underpinnings of EE, as well as current trends in the subject that relate to science teacher education. Later chapters examine the pedagogical practices of environmental education in the context of science teacher education. Case studies of environmental education teaching and learning strategies in science teacher education, and instructional practices in K-12 science classrooms, are included. This book shares knowledge and ideas about environmental education pedagogy and serves as a reliable guide for both science teacher educators and K-12 science educators who wish to insert environmental education into science teacher education. Coverage includes everything from the methods employed in summer camps to the use of podcasting as a pedagogical aid. Studies have shown that schools that do manage to incorporate EE into their teaching programs demonstrate significant growth in student achievement as well as improved student behavior. This text argues that the multidisciplinary nature of environmental education itself requires problem-solving, critical thinking and literacy skills that benefit students’ work right across the curriculum.
Download or read book The Imperative for Environmental Education in Teacher Training written by David Oakes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deepening Environmental Education in Pre service Education Resource written by Hilary Inwood and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education Curriculum for Pre service Teacher Training in Industrial Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching for a Sustainable World written by John Fien and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is a curriculum for preservice teachers that attempts to illustrate how environmental education and development education are related and to provide practical assistance for teacher educators who would like to include these important fields in their programs. The project provides a focus for discussion of environmental and development education issues in teacher education in Australia. The particular audience for this project is preservice teacher education. However, the workshop modules are adapted easily for the continuing or inservice professional development of teachers. The workshops provided in this program may be used in three major ways: (1) the materials may be used as the basis for a linked program of professional and curriculum development; (2) the workshop materials may be infused, with or without local adaptations, into a range of courses, subjects, or units in a teacher education course; and (3) the workshops may be used as a set for a core or elective course in development and environmental education. Three workshops were written to be introductory. These workshops provide an introduction to environmental education, an introduction to development education, and a way of seeing the linkages and similarities between environmental and development education. These three workshops may be considered as a hub while the remaining 15 workshops are spokes that address particular themes and specialties in environmental and development education. These other themes discuss futures, science, educational resources, sustainability, population, and waste management among others. (DK)
Download or read book Environmental Education written by Patricia R. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in Canada written by J. C. Rioux and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education written by UNESCO-UNEP International Environmental Education Programme (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-United Nations Environment Programme) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education in Action IV written by Mary Lynne Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education Curriculum for Pre service Teacher Training in Agricultural Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Education written by Unesco-UNEP International Environmental Education Programme and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
