Action Competence and Environmental Education

A sharper profile of environmental education is needed to improve the quality of future environmental education. This involves an understanding of the conceptions related to ‘environmental issues’. It is argued that environmental issues have to be understood as issues in the community with conflicting interests at several levels. At the same time the authors argue for the development of the ‘action competence’ of the pupils as the main goal of the new generation of environmental education and refer to promising findings from Danish environmental education, mainly from the MUVIN Programme.     

The Mandate for Interdisciplinarity in Science Education: The Case of Economic and Environmental Sciences

Science educators often miss an opportunity to encourage the cognitive leaps associated with the formation of networks of meaning when they deliver scientific concepts as solitary sets of received wisdom. Interdisciplinary science education provides a rich setting for encouraging this formation of meaning within the minds of the students. A wonderful example of this rich interdisciplinary setting can be found when environmental science is informed by the study of economics within the classroom. The usefulness of particular concepts in economic science for environmental science is illustrative of what science students can gain from learning science in an interdisciplinary setting.     

Action Research and School Initiatives in Environmental Education: a response to John Elliott

This response to Elliott's contribution to the ECER symposium questions the action research methodology of the ENSI project. It is argued that there are cultural and policy limitations associated with it. In conclusion, suggestions are made about future European research in the field.     

Environmental Education and Environmental Advocacy: Revisited

Abstract

Environmental education and environmental advocacy have a contentious relationship. In this article, the author argues that there will always be uncertainty about educationally appropriate responses to controversial issues. Although uncertainty is inherent in this task, the choices are not dichotomous. The author also argues that education suggests a fluidity of meaning that shifts across a range of contexts, and what needs to be done will be found on a case-by-case and context-by-context basis in a mediated and negotiated third space. Some tentative guide-posts are offered.     

合作教育：理念与行动

文章在对合作教育的理论进行阐释的基础上,梳理了美国、英国、德国、俄罗斯、日本等国家的合作教育形式,并从政府、企业、学校三方面提出了促进我国合作教育发展的对策建议.     

Creating Aliens: The Ultimate Life Sciences Activity

All-girl engineering workshops are increasing in popularity as a means to attract females into the male-dominated field of engineering. However, the effectiveness of such workshops as a recruitment tool is unclear. This report summarizes several research studies on this topic with the intent of showing the effectiveness of such workshops and other novel methods of introducing and retaining females throughout the schooling years. The analyzed literature identifies the most effective means of encouraging females into the field of engineering as ones that incorporate the following factors: true knowledge of profession, building a network of support, and realizing relevance to personal goals. Suggestions for increasing participation of women in nontraditional occupations are provided.     

现代远程教育中网络教师指导活动的行动研究

网络教师在远程教学的过程中担负着非常关键的职责,对远程教育质量起着重要作用。本研究在理论调研和现代远程教育网络教师对学生指导现状现实考察的基础上,以网络教师指导活动的个案设计为例,运用行动研究方法对设计方案进行完善,探讨现代远程教育中网络教师如何更好地指导学生的学习。最后构建了网络教师指导活动的参考模式,摸索出指导活动的若干规律要素和重要指导环节的应用策略。本研究的指导活动设计、行动过程以及个案资料可以为其他网络教师起到参考作用,为远程教学的微观操作层面、基于网络的实时与非实时教学指导等方面提供案例,以促进网络教师角色、职责的转变和专业化发展。     

谈理工科学生的社会科学教育

本文简要阐述了信息化时代对青年学生综合素质及知识结构提出的新要求,分析了当前我国理工科学生社会科学教育的现状,并从社会科学教育的特点出发,提出了搞好理工科学生社会科学教育、改善学生知识结构的几点认识与建议。     

环境伦理与环境教育

人类要实现可的续发展,必须学习新的环境论理,这就需要通过教育来建立作为未来翁民的学生新的环境论理及价值观,了解人与环境的互动,培养对环境的尊重及解决环境问题的能力,本文还对环境教育的目的、方法、课程设置、学合人师资培养等进行了分析和探讨。     

Gender Transformative Learning and Environmental Action

A gendered critique of the theory and practice of popular education and of environmental policy and planning processes, gives visibility to the means by which women's world views and ways of knowing and doing motivate their environmental and educational work. With reference to experience in India, Bolivia, El Salvador, Brazil, and Canada, a case is made for the recognition of non-violent, but holistic resistance strategies. These are based on women's approaches to environmental action learning, to change attitudes, behaviour and responsibility for personal and social transformation and to inhibit the continued degradation of human support systems.     

Bridging the Challenges of Transnational Education and Accreditation

Between 1985 and 1996, the world population of kindergarten through to higher education students grew from 919 million to 1.13 billion. There are at least three typical global higher education student profiles. Distance education - the delivery of education courses from one location to students at another location - is an alternative way to reach many students within these profiles. Distance education has a different set of characteristics from that typical of place-bound education, and transnational education brings yet more features. Regardless of the ways in which education is delivered, its quality assurance and maintenance of standards is of paramount concern among many national and international institutions, organizations and private sector companies, and students. Organizations such as the Global Alliance for Transnational Education (GATE) provide a prototype for achieving such standards.     

教育：面向幸福的行动

幸福是人生活的主题,是“好”生活的衍生物与基调,是对具有卓异品性之人的一种奖赏。言说幸福的妥当方式是意蕴揭示。而非概念界定。幸福的呈现是与好生活的“暴露”过程同步的,是人的卓异品性吸引来的,要成就学生幸福,教育活动应该诉诸于对学生理想的引导、关怀能力的培育、卓异品性的造就等行动来实现。     

绿色教育在中国:思想与行动

绿色教育在中国既是思想上的探索,又是行动上的创新,是思想与行动相互促进的结果.中国绿色教育的第一种理解源于世纪之交的环境保护浪潮以及由此产生的环境保护教育的需要,无论是“中国中小学绿色教育行动”还是全国性的“绿色学校”创建都是如此.中国绿色教育的第二种内涵是把环境保护与人类发展结合起来的可持续发展教育,是以人类为中心的可持续发展教育思想探索与行动创新.随着生命教育思想在中国的提出和传播,中国绿色教育又开始了对生命教育思想的交融和借鉴,这构成了第三种中国绿色教育内涵.面向未来,中国绿色教育应该在可能的涵义范围以及国家社会与教育使命中寻找其社会与教育内涵.     

The Environmental Education Outline and the Environmental Education Magazine

The students of Lenin primary schools are the children of impoverished workers and farmers; they have undergone lives of great hardship and have personally witnessed the oppression and destruction of their fathers and brothers under the pressure of debts and rent-collection by powerful local gentry and landlords. In these circumstances their thoughts have been constantly preoccupied with the need for clothing to wear, food to eat, a place to live, freedom, and books to read. When instructing them, teachers should pay special attention to these pressing needs and should make use of the students' feelings in studying such questions as how it is that we suffer poverty and hardship and why the local gentry and landlords enjoy such fortune though they do not work. Through this kind of study, the students should be brought naturally to an understanding of the fact that in society there are two absolutely dissimilar classes - one being the capitalist class and the other the proletariat. The capitalist class is the exploiting class, and the proletariat class is the exploited class. When the students have learned that they themselves are of the proletariat, the exploited and oppressed class, then various methods should be used to teach them how to attack the capitalist class, how to relieve their own distress. In this way consolidate their class consciousness and establish their determination for class struggle.     

Bridging In-school and Out-of-school Learning: Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education

The present paper thoroughly examines how one can effectively bridge in-school and out-of-school learning. The first part discusses the difficulty in defining out-of-school learning. It proposes to distinguish three types of learning: formal, informal, and non-formal. The second part raises the question of whether out-of-school learning should be dealt with in the in-school system, in view of the fact that we experience informal learning anyway as well as considering the disadvantages and difficulties teachers are confronted with when planning and carrying out scientific fieldtrips. The voices of the teachers, the students, and the non-formal institution staff are heard to provide insights into the problem. The third part discusses the cognitive and affective aspects of non-formal learning. The fourth part presents some models explaining scientific fieldtrip learning and based on those models, suggests a novel explanation. The fifth part offers some recommendations of how to bridge in and out-of-school learning. The paper closes with some practical ideas as to how one can bring the theory described in the paper into practice. It is hoped that this paper will provide educators with an insight so that they will be able to fully exploit the great potential that scientific field trips may offer. This paper appears as a chapter in: Eshach, H. (2006). Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools, Netherlands: Springer.     

Bridging Education and Practice With a Competency-Based Learning Contract

ABSTRACT

Field work programs have a substantial responsibility for providing support and gatekeeping functions while ensuring an educational experience that allows students to master the nine holistic, multidimensional social work accreditation competencies. With additional emphasis on field as a “signature pedagogy,” field directors are tasked with finding placements that can support these explicit competencies. Through the utilization of a learning contract that combines the Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards competencies (including component behaviors) students and supervisors can begin to discuss their joint progress on meeting each of these prior to the final evaluation. This process will ensure that students have demonstrated the necessary outcomes to become a generalist social work practitioner.