Teaching towards Christian environmental stewardship – to what extent are the Tbilisi Declaration objectives for environmental education relevant?

Towards Effective Environmental Education

By engaging the visiting public with live animals, zoos and aquariums can be effective providers of environmental education | In 2010, governments agreed to the United Nations Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, which aims to halt and eventually reverse global biodiversity loss (http://www.cbd.int/ sp/default.shtml). To build support and momentum for this urgent task, the United Nations ...

Inspiro - Product Environmental Declaration

What Are the Objectives of Early Clinical Exposure?

Introduction: In recent decades, medical education has been following new approaches to early clinical exposure. This study was designed to determine early clinical exposure (ECE) objectives and their availability and importance from the participants’ viewpoint. Methods: In a descriptive study, 70 students who had participated in ECE at Isfahan Medical University were asked to complete a quest...

Environmental Education is History: The Extent to Which Modern History Education Adopts Characteristics of Socially Critical Environmental Education1

This paper summarises a research study that investigated the potential of the Queensland secondary school subject Modern History to adopt characteristics of socially critical environmental education (SCEE). The study arose out of my own classroom practice. While teaching Modern History in Queensland schools, I found the dividing line between human problems and environmental ones was often blurr...

Evaluating environmental education, citizen science, and stewardship through naturalist programs.

Amateur naturalists have played an important role in the study and conservation of nature since the 17th century. Today, naturalist groups make important contributions to bridge the gap between conservation science and practice around the world. We examined data from 2 regional naturalist programs to understand participant motivations, barriers, and perspectives as well as the actions they take...