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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Ecological literacy"”.
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Ecological literacy in a context of first-year college students
… on the knowledge and behavior components of ecological literacy as it pertains to a sample of first-year students at a large land grant university. Specifically, a four-point typology of environmentally responsible behaviors for first-year college students was identified that included …
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Essential Elements of Ecological Literacy and the Pathways to Achieve It: Perspectives of Ecologists
… have led many to conclude that the level of ecological literacy among the general population in the United States is too low to enable effective social responses to current environmental challenges. However, the actual meaning of ecological literacy varies considerably between academic fields …
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Essential Elements of Ecological Literacy and the Pathways to Achieve It: Perspectives of Ecologists
… have led many to conclude that the level of ecological literacy among the general population in the United States is too low to enable effective social responses to current environmental challenges. However, the actual meaning of ecological literacy varies considerably between academic fields …
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The nature of dissection: Exploring student conceptions
… with the nonhuman world, which is defined as ecological literacy.</p><p>This study utilized a grounded theory approach, in which student responses to interviews were the primary source of data. Interviews were transcribed, and responses were coded according to a constant comparative method of …
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Towards a Holistic Landscape: Understanding, Repairing, and Sustaining Systems
… serve as a framework to measure the landscape literacy, ecological literacy, and place attachment people have with these systems. Storytelling through design concentrates on how past land narratives are seen through the latest design interventions and help inform site users of system …
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Reforming Industrial Design Education in Mainland China for Sustainability
… Design educational program into four domains: ecological literacy, artistic, technological, and professional. Suggestions for the appropriate timeline, content, and pedagogical approaches for curriculum are also provided. The proposed framework was then critically reviewed Chinese educators …
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Holistic educational thought in K-12 education
… is able to satisfy the intellectual and ecological needs of civil society and beautiful in the sense that education is designated to delight the senses and appeal to the imagination. To articulate this relationship – that between beauty and practicality – is the crux of holistic …
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Creating a framework for systems-based graphic analysis and the assessment of college-level introductory biology textbooks
Ecological literacy in students has become an increasing concern for educators. Mounting environmental problems along with a growing amount of nature deficit disorder seen in children and adults alike provides the impetus for research in this area. Since many college biology classes are modeled …
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The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
… sustainability (EfS) as a means to create more ecologically literate and sustainable societies. One premise is that socio-ecological sustainability issues and challenges are immediate and locally rooted. This calls for educational interventions that promote participative action by local …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
… moth species as an entry point to think through ecological entanglements with other species. I then critically reflect on how this process may inform a creative practice rooted in craft. I contextualise the practice through a theoretical framework that synthesises understandings from feminist …
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The Individual as Ecological: Reconstructing Identity in a Deweyan Vein
… develop a conception of the individual using an ecological model as an alternative to the atomistic type more typical of Western philosophy. An ecological model presents the individual as part of a biological and cultural milieu, but, contrary to a number of critiques of the Deweyan individual, …
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Sustainability of Western Kentucky University: An Examination of Campus Environmental Policies, Performance and Potential for Change
… Food and Dining, and Environmental Literacy. Average annual energy consumption for each campus community member is 4,139 kWh of electricity, 527 pounds of coal, 3,600 cf of natural gas, totaling over 22 million Btus, costing $317 and emitting 3.34 metric tons of greenhouse gas …
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Community college students' plant biodiversity learning experience in an introductory biology course: exploring the value added by using a CD-ROM to develop inquiry lessons
… plant diversity. Third, the Plant Biodiversity Literacy Rubric [PBLR] was developed, based upon the history of the concept of biodiversity and was used to evaluate students’ progress by assigning them to various levels of understanding during the study. The students in the CD-ROM group gained a …
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Evaluation of The Effects of Participatory Methods in The Teaching of Ecological Thinking in Design in Kuwait
… students of interior design that incorporates ecological thinking. It is particularly intended for use at universities and other places of higher education where such contexts are not currently available and, furthermore, where the teaching has been primarily of a didactic, teacher-centred …