论幼儿环保意识培养的有效途径

培养幼儿环保意识需要幼儿园、家长、社区形成教育合力,并从这三方面寻找有效途径。     

对排球运动意识和环境问题的探讨

影响排球运动发展的因素很多,本文仅对排球运动的意识和环境问题作以探讨和剖析,以供广大排球爱好者和从事排球工作的教师、教练员、运动员共同探讨,为推动我国排球事业的发展、提高,做出贡献.     

How to promote conservation behaviours: the combined role of environmental education and commitment

This study tested the influence of both environmental education (EE) and commitment interventions among teenagers for promoting energy and water conservation at home. Conservation behaviours were measured in two ways – directly and through questionnaires – prior to and after the interventions. Results indicate (1) EE participants may have saved more energy than non-participants and (2) those signing a public commitment saved more energy and water than those who did not. Results from the questionnaire measures demonstrated the importance of EE for promoting ecological self-identity and a personal norm for energy conservation. Based on these results the use of commitment interventions in EE initiatives for promoting conservation behaviours among teenagers is proposed.     

An analysis of legal issues relating to the least restrictive environment standards

The lack of clear language in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which is the federal law that governs the provision of special education and related services to children with disabilities in the USA, has led to inconsistencies in school districts' decisions regarding the least restrictive environment (LRE). This uncertainty in determining an appropriate LRE has become a significant obstacle to educating students with disabilities. Therefore, this paper examines a number of court cases that have challenged school districts to provide the LRE for students with disabilities and have handed down decisions that define specific standards that are useful for school teams to implement the mandate of the LRE. Through the synthesis of these cases, the author provides criteria for determining the LRE for students with disabilities that could enhance inclusive education for these students. Finally, the author suggests that legislators should reconsider the language of LRE, make it more specific regarding the determination of LRE, and apply the standards defined in these cases and others to state a clear formula for developing LRE that could be utilised in school districts throughout the country.     

Gender issues in the university research environment

Recruiting and retaining females within science, engineering and technology continues to challenge many European higher education institutions. This study looks at female self-perceptions relating to effective research work and career progression. Focus groups are used to examine the attitudes and experiences of females and a questionnaire is used to explore perceptions in four main skills areas: group work; communication; personal awareness; project planning and management. The study indicates consistent female concerns on issues pertaining to effective female role models, negative work-role stereotypes and the work–life balance of an academic career. For all four skills areas, the average confidence scores of the female participants fell below those of males, but these differences were only statistically significant for perceptions on group work and communication skills and prior to an intense skills development course. Based on these findings, a student workshop on gender issues has been developed, an outline of which is presented.     

Science education for environmental awareness: approaches to integrating cognitive and affective domains

Science education has an important part in developing understanding of concepts that underpin environmental issues, leading potentially to pro‐environmental behaviour. However, science is commonly perceived negatively, leading to inappropriate and negative models of science that do not connect to people’s experiences. The article argues that the cognitive and affective domains need to be explicitly integrated in a science education that informs environmental education, as a sense of relationship is essential for environmental care and responsibility leading to informed action. The features of such approaches to science education are discussed through analysis of the impact of modern and constructive postmodern science education models on environmental education, and possible strategies for making connections between cognitive and affective domains are proposed. The analysis incorporates the development of positive approaches to science and environmental issues through teacher modelling of biophilic behaviour, active learning through constructivist pedagogy, the politicisation of science education to address social and environmental issues, suitable experiences of natural environments and living organisms, and science curricula that emphasise conceptual integration to demonstrate complex environmental effects, including the environmental consequences of human behaviour.     

Using phenomenology to conduct environmental education research: Experience and issues

Recently the environmental movement has seen much success and progress under a newly-framed green paradigm. Yet, despite the proliferation of national attention to, and public interest in, the go-green mentality, environmental education still seems to be stuck within the old environmental paradigm. This critical essay shares lessons that environmental education can learn through incorporating a human benefits approach. Ultimately, this essay calls for a reflection on environmental education's presence within the budding sustainability movement and calls for the “humanization” of environmental education discourse and pedagogical practice.     

Effects of an art-based environmental education camp program on the environmental attitudes and awareness of diverse youth

ABSTRACT

This study used a combination of surveys and drawing-based metrics to evaluate whether integration of art-based activities into EE camp programing could enhance environmental orientations of diverse youth ages 6–12 (n?=?285) in Athens, GA, USA. Compared to a control group, art-based EE had a positive effect on children’s eco-awareness and environmental knowledge. However, effects of the art-based EE were comparable to those observed for a conventional EE summer camp. Interactions between the treatment and demographic variables (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity) were minimal, suggesting that both types of EE programing worked well for different groups of youth. Results highlight the potential value of art in EE research and practice.     

中小学生课外获得环境知识的不同渠道与其环境意识的关联程度

调查计算表明,中小学生课外主要从"环境保护宣传活动"和"广播电视"中获得环境知识的学生在环境意识的各个部分与综合表现明显高于其它渠道,可以认为,"环境保护宣传活动"和"广播电视"是课外提高中小学生环境意识的有效方式.     

政府环境责任问题若干认识

我国环境与发展的关系正在发生重大变化。日趋严重的环境问题向政府提出严峻挑战。一些地方政府在主体地位、政绩考核标准、约束机制和政策执行力等方面存在环境责任的缺失。作为环境保护的第一责任主体,政府要认真落实环境教育、环境规划、环境立法、环境执法监督和环境保护的领导、协调、指导等环境责任。     

How to create an action learning environment that makes self and social awareness business-like

Promoting open reflection and exploration on group dynamics is delicate work and is often considered ‘not very business-like’ in a business context. How to approach this work is a constant balance and struggle for action learning practitioners. In this account of practice, we present central elements in our action learning framework – Action Lab^® – where the design builds on Business Driven Action Learning. We share core ideas and assumptions behind our action learning approach, which is informed by a systems psychodynamic understanding of groups. This account of practice aims at sharing and discussing ideas and distinctive work modes for creating double awareness – i.e. how to maintain a balanced awareness of task and process and how to increase self and social awareness – in a performance-driven business contexts.     

Development of an instrument to measure technology studies teachers' attitudes to environmental and social issues

An important issue in the development and implementation of technology education curricula in Victoria is the extent to which environmental and societal issues related to technology are being addressed in the teaching of technology studies. This paper reports on the preliminary phases of a study which is intended to evaluate these aspects of technology education and describes the development of an instrument for use with practising year 11 and 12 technology studies teachers. The instrument sets out to measure teachers' attitudes towards (1) environmental and societal issues and (2) whether such issues should be taught within technology studies, as well as to investigate the extent to which such issues are actually taught in practice. In order to develop the initial version of the instrument, twenty practising technology studies teachers in Victoria were interviewed in order to ascertain their ideas about environmental and societal issues as well as to gather some initial data on the major questions.     

贵阳市生态旅游环境的构建与保育

本文提出贵阳市生态旅游将都市区、乡村通道和景区进行整体环境构建,建立以景区与都市区为核心的生态旅游环境系统的思路.在此基础上讨论贵阳市生态旅游环境的现状和存在的问题,并讨论了景区环境保护的几个主要方面.     

汽车轻量化是节能环保的有效措施

综述了汽车轻量化与节能环保的关系、轻量化的途径、轻量化的发展方向、轻量化面临的问题,强调了轻量化设计是实现汽车轻量化的主要途径之一,并对我省汽车轻量化提出建议.     

Examining the environmental awareness of children and adolescents in the Ranomafana region,madagascar

This paper examines children's and adolescents' environmental awareness in rural Madagascar. Two types of school survey among 8‐ to 21‐year‐old students and pupils in 18 schools were used for data collection. The objective of this comparative study was to examine the environmental awareness and knowledge of children and adolescents living under different ecological conditions. The role of education in forming environmental awareness is also considered. This research was carried out in villages nearby Ranomafana National Park located in forested areas as well as in more environmentally degraded villages further from the park. The results of the study show that children in rural areas of Madagascar are measurably aware of environmental issues and can relate them to human activities. The effect of education on environmental concern is significant, but when the effects of degradation can be felt and seen in daily life there is an increase in this awareness. Children's environmental concern and demand for action was stronger in deforested areas.     

加强高职院校学生的环境意识教育之必要性

环境意识是体现社会文明程度的一个重要标志,本文结合高职教育体系中环境意识教育的欠缺面,提出了对高职院校学生进行环境意识教育的必要性。     

高校经济学教学中的环境意识缺陷问题探讨

环境危机是人类经济活动的直接产物,缺乏环境意识的经济学及其高校教育对环境危机的产生负有不可推卸的责任.环境问题与传统主流经济学把经济系统独立于环境系统之外.忽视环境与经济之间的联系密切相关.主要表现为理性经济人假设的偏激化、无视环境的价值性、资源性和有限性,认为环境是没有竭尽的自由取用物,忽视人类的多种需要和环境的多种功能等等.一些经济学理论被曲解和滥用,当前的经济学教学充斥着经济学与环境相互分高的倾向,强调单纯谋求经济利益,也对环境问题的恶化和扩散起到了明显助长作用.     

Social,environmental, and developmental issues and creativity

Parents and teachers alike have been led to believe that the motivation that stems from wanting to earn a good grade or receive a gold star or do better than the person sitting at the next desk is a positive force. However, in the case of open-ended, creative tasks—tasks for which there is more than one possible solution—extrinsic constraints have frequently proven harmful. A social-psychological approach to the study of creativity is especially useful for answering the question of how best to foster creative behavior in the classroom. Rather than focus on the (largely innate or at least immalleable) differences between creative and uncreative persons, social psychologists concentrate on creative situations (i.e., the particular social and environmental conditions that can positively or negatively impact the creativity of most individuals). The present article explored this research tradition and proposed a theoretical explanation for the impact of motivation on creativity that is based upon children's conceptions of work and play.