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Culture and Environment
The focus for this book is the Culture/Environment nexus. Volume one consists of studies submitted by researchers from all corners of the globe. Volume two consists of case studies submitted by a diversity practitioners. The intent was to augment and highlight diversity in our descriptions of environmental education research and practice
Eco -Thinking
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Interpersonal Relationships in Education: From Theory to Practice
This book brings together recent research on interpersonal relationships in education from a variety of perspectives including research from Europe, North America and Australia. The work clearly demonstrates that positive teacher-student relationships can contribute to student learning in classrooms of various types. Productive learning environments are characterized by supportive and warm interactions throughout the class: teacher-student and student-student. Similarly, at the school level, teacher learning thrives when there are positive and mentoring interrelationships among professional colleagues. Work on this book began with a series of formative presentations at the second Internation...
The Ecology of Home
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examining some complementary and competing principles among the disciplines, the book uncovers some commonalities between science, economics and religion, that support a holistic view of ecology or ecological education. The format for the discussion comprises a number of selected academic chapters on each of the topics above as well as a number of other creative media which include drawings figures, prose, poetry and photography which creatively draws connections among the diverse and interdisciplinary concepts and theories presented. In addition, the content of this book has attempted minimize academic jargon to make the ideas more accessible to an audience of academics, teachers and a wider general audience.
Local and Global Connectivity
This book includes selected papers presented at the 10th World Environmental Education Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand. The works include a globally diverse range of authors and perspectives on environmental and sustainability topics. All submissions went through a second round of peer review. On the one hand, local knowledge (based on direct relationship with places, experience, heritage inherited from generation to generation) offers contextualized solutions, sense of belonging, emotional involvement, participation opportunities and concrete action. On the other hand, humans are linked by a common destiny, they are now connected by thousand powerful channels of communication and are mut...
Thirty Years of Learning Environments
This book describes important landmarks in the study of learning environments. First conceptualized as ‘classroom climate’, the field expanded considerably from its roots in science education. Promising areas for future research now include a range of diverse contexts and applications.
Education Is Not Rocket Science
The dominance of computer labs in our schools is the result of a long struggle among teachers and technicians for control of precious computer resources. As technicians gain power and influence, this is expressed in the 'row on row of machines' installed in literally thousands of computer labs in schools around the world. While labs are in some ways, ideal for learning about technology or computer programming, they somehow seem ill equipped to assist teachers with a lesson on language arts, geography or for helping students conduct a scientific experiment. As a result, the huge investment in computers seems like so much wasted potential: labs are not influencing teaching in the ways we had h...
Diversity in Environmental Education Research
In this book, Wolff-Michael Roth takes a 38-minute conversation in one science classroom as an occasion for analyzing learning and development from a perspective by and large inspired by the works of Mikhail Bakhtin but also influenced by Lev Vygotsky and 20th century European phenomenology and American pragmatism.
The Ecology of Me
The Ecology of Me is a narrative project focusing on my notion of 'aesthetic functioning' as it relates to identity, culture and environmental issues and the possible intersection of these factors. Its structure takes the form of an autobiographical narrative closely linked to ecological identity and its development in educators over time. Using personal examples from my own life, I critically examine a number of poems or narrative texts written over the span of my educational development and ensuing academic career. Centered on these texts, I also adopt critical literary analytical techniques to describe the context and backdrop for each of these forms of writing. The volume consists of a series of poems coupled with photographic compositions and related narrative texts that further describe the cultural and political context for each work as well as my personal circumstances during the time of writing. Together, these form a working 'environmental autobiography' of sorts while also modeling the process of developing and maintaining one's own 'aesthetic functioning' in an increasing complex and technological world.
Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned
The University of Victoria Pacific Centre for Scientific and Technological Literacy is one of five Centres for Research into Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTAL) funded for 5 years (2005–2010) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC). Pacific CRYSTAL intended to promote scientific, mathematical, and technological literacy for responsible citizenship through research partnerships with university and educational communities. Pacific CRYSTAL’s functional structure consisted of 3 research and development nodes connected to a leadership and administrative node, which was charged with facilitating the activities of 19 projects and 42 principal investiga...
