Download or read book Networking environmental education networks written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Networks and Practice Change in Environmental Education written by Yue Li and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional development programs create communities of practice for environmental educators to exchange ideas and practice with each other through face-to-face and online activities. It is particularly important to understand how educators form networks through such communities, and how these networks impact their environmental education practice. Using multiple conceptual lenses -- including communities of practice, network formation, practice theory, professional development, and environmental education -- I examined the relationship between professional networks and practice change in environmental education. The professional development programs that are the focus of this study, including a state consortium that brought together environmental education and youth development professionals, an online learning community that explored urban environmental education, and a fellowship program focused on climate change education, are part of the North American environmental education professional development training program, EECapacity. First, I explore environmental educators' communities of practice from a social network perspective by addressing the question: What were the characteristics of networks and the processes by which professional networks emerged in three environmental education professional development communities? I conducted surveys and social network analysis to examine educators' networks before and after the professional development programs. The results showed that educators had more network ties among each other after the programs than before the programs across all three groups. Also participating in face-to-face meetings and online interactions increased the likelihood of educators' forming professional networks. Next, I applied practice theory to explore the research question: How did environmental educators change their practice through participating in professional development communities? I conducted surveys and interviews to investigate educators' practice change as measured by elements of practice including goals, audiences, settings, activities, resources and ideas. The results showed that environmental educators incorporated new resources and ideas into their practice across all three programs. However, changes in the other practice elements varied among programs, which I attribute to different program goals and professional development interventions. To explore the relationship between network properties, including in-degree, out-degree, closeness and betweenness centrality and tie strength, and practice change, I conducted correlation analysis. The results showed that in-degree centrality had a positive relationship with practice change in the state consortium and the online learning community, and other network measures only showed significant relationships with practice change in the state consortium. Finally, to better understand the process of change in networks and practice, I also conducted interviews in the state consortium and online learning community, and analyzed educators' mid-term and final reports in the fellowship program, which showed how the fellowship program and networking opportunities impacted their practices. This dissertation explores dimensions of the communities of practice.
Download or read book Civic Ecology written by Marianne E. Krasny and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offer stories of ... emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and studying it as a growing international phenomenon.--Back cover.
Download or read book EE Link written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education written by Ramírez-Verdugo, M. Dolores and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of the discipline or country, creating quality education is multifaceted. At the center of any schooling practice are the educators, their schools, and the teacher education programs that license them. As the schools and faculties of education strive to provide the best practices to pre-service or in-service teachers, it becomes more critical to increase the quality of teacher education via various means to keep up with the demands of schooling in the 21st century. Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education provides an overview of how innovation and research experience can enhance teacher education programs with a focus on competencies, skills, and strategies future teachers will need to cope with while teaching students’ learning with diversity and facing linguistic, social, and environmental challenges. The book particularly investigates the potentiality of educational technology, innovative techniques, and digital storytelling to enhance education and bilingualism in intercultural contexts and multilingual settings. Covering topics that include performance assessment, teacher training, and professional development, and including many practical and diverse examples, this book is intended for TESOL, second or foreign language learning, and CUL programs and teacher-training institutions, as well as teachers, researchers, academicians, and students in interdisciplinary areas that include science, history, geography, language learning, bilingualism, intercultural competencies, classroom interaction, gamification, and educational technology.
Download or read book Developing an Environmental Education Liaison Network in the Fond Du Lac School District to Enhance the Infusion of Environmental Education written by Margie R. Winter and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing on H R 3684 the National Environmental Education Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Environmental Education Review written by Alex Russ and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.
Download or read book Sustainability and Environmental Networking written by Eastern Africa Environmental Network. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communications and Networking in Education written by Deryn M. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most schools the dominant supporting technology has been either the stand-alone personal computer or a modest local network. The situation is changing rapidly as a rising number of schools provide access to the Internet for their staff and pupils, opening avenues for communication and networking hitherto not possible. This book reflects on this change. It aims to further the vision of how these new technologies could improve and transform aspects of education. Yet in parallel it asks serious questions about the realities of an interface between the social, cultural and pedagogical contexts of education and the actual affordances that these new information and communication technologies offer. The chapters in this book provide a heady mix of foresight and practical reporting, of planning for the future but at the same time respecting the problems education already has with current technologies. The richness of the points presented here stems in part from the range of experience of the international authors - from academics and administrators, to teachers and curriculum designers. This mix ensures that the central questions on communications and networking in education are considered not simply from a variety of personal perspectives, but also from different cultural and environmental experiences. And yet interest also lies in the commonality of reporting and discussion based on activity in the field. All the contributions draw heavily on research and experience in devising and running projects and experimental activities in a range of schools and teacher-training institutions and environments. The opinions expressed are thus grounded in knowledge gained from work embedded in the reality of today's educational settings. This must be the only sound base upon which to consider the issues of the future. This book is essential reading for all professionals involved in all aspects of information and communication technologies in education. Teachers, lecturers, researchers, students and administrators will find it invaluable.
Download or read book National Environmental Education Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Networks and Networking in Environmental Education Programs written by Michael Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Networking written by Justin Lupele and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study draws on relational philosophy, ontology and learning theory to investigate the role of networking in professional and institutional development in a SADC environmental education course development network. The study provides new direction for adult professional development programmes in Africa. The study reveals that there a number of necessary (internal) and contingent (external) factors that enable or constrain networking, professional development and institutionalisation of environmental education courses. The findings of the study informed the United Nations environment and sustainability education programme for higher education in Africa.
Download or read book Caring for Creation written by Paul Douglas and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith-Based Solutions to Caring for the Earth Climate change is a confusing and polarizing issue. It may also prove to be the most daunting challenge of this century because children, the elderly, and the poor will be the first to feel its effects. The issue is all over the news, but what is seldom heard is a conservative, evangelical perspective. Connecting the dots between science and faith, this book explores the climate debate and how Christians can take the lead in caring for God's creation. The authors answer top questions such as "What's really happening?" and "Who can we trust?" and discuss stewarding the earth in light of evangelical values. "Acting on climate change is not about political agendas," they say. "It's about our kids. It's about being a disciple of Jesus Christ." Capping off this empowering book are practical, simple ideas for improving our environment and helping our families and those around us.
Download or read book Impact Networks written by David Ehrlichman and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide shows how to facilitate collaboration among diverse individuals and organizations to navigate complexity and create change in our interconnected world. The social and environmental challenges we face today are not only complex, they are also systemic and structural and have no obvious solutions. They require diverse combinations of people, organizations, and sectors to coordinate actions and work together even when the way forward is unclear. Even so, collaborative efforts often fail because they attempt to navigate complexity with traditional strategic plans, created by hierarchies that ignore the way people naturally connect. By embracing a living-systems approach to organizing, impact networks bring people together to build relationships across boundaries; leverage the existing work, skills, and motivations of the group; and make progress amid unpredictable and ever-changing conditions. As a powerful and flexible organizing system that can span regions, organizations, and silos of all kinds, impact networks underlie some of the most impressive and large-scale efforts to create change across the globe. David Ehrlichman draws on his experience as a network builder; interviews with dozens of network leaders; and insights from the fields of network science, community building, and systems thinking to provide a clear process for creating and developing impact networks. Given the increasing complexity of our society and the issues we face, our ability to form, grow, and work through networks has never been more essential.
Download or read book Environment Politics and Activism written by Somnath Batabyal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony and through social networking sites. Further, it shows how the media creates and influences relevant discourses, builds campaigns and awareness, and adopts and discards issues. With a range of perspectives on issues of environmental justice and equity, the volume scrutinizes how the media discourse on environment shapes our politics, and the role of international politics, finance, youth, newspapers, magazines and 24-hour television. Bringing together academics, activists and media persons, this highly topical book will serve as significant reading for researchers and scholars of development studies and media studies, as well as policymakers, NGOs and environmental campaigners.
Download or read book Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP written by Jean-Philippe Vasseur and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet explains why the Internet Protocol (IP) has become the protocol of choice for smart object networks. IP has successfully demonstrated the ability to interconnect billions of digital systems on the global Internet and in private IP networks. Once smart objects can be easily interconnected, a whole new class of smart object systems can begin to evolve. The book discusses how IP-based smart object networks are being designed and deployed. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 demonstrates why the IP architecture is well suited to smart object networks, in contrast to non-IP based sensor network or other proprietary systems that interconnect to IP networks (e.g. the public Internet of private IP networks) via hard-to-manage and expensive multi-protocol translation gateways that scale poorly. Part 2 examines protocols and algorithms, including smart objects and the low power link layers technologies used in these networks. Part 3 describes the following smart object network applications: smart grid, industrial automation, smart cities and urban networks, home automation, building automation, structural health monitoring, and container tracking. Shows in detail how connecting smart objects impacts our lives with practical implementation examples and case studies Provides an in depth understanding of the technological and architectural aspects underlying smart objects technology Offers an in-depth examination of relevant IP protocols to build large scale smart object networks in support of a myriad of new services
