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Environmental Education is a multidisciplinary field focused on teaching individuals about the environment and promoting awareness, understanding, and skills necessary for sustainable living. It aims to foster critical thinking and informed decision-making regarding environmental issues, encouraging active participation in environmental stewardship and conservation.
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Environmental Education is a multidisciplinary field focused on teaching individuals about the environment and promoting awareness, understanding, and skills necessary for sustainable living. It aims to foster critical thinking and informed decision-making regarding environmental issues, encouraging active participation in environmental stewardship and conservation.

Key research themes

1. How does Environmental Education contribute to fostering sustainable development and pro-environmental attitudes?

This research theme investigates the role of environmental education (EE) in promoting sustainability, increasing environmental awareness, and shaping attitudes and behaviors conducive to environmental protection. It explores educational strategies, interdisciplinary approaches, and curriculum integration to empower citizens with knowledge and skills necessary for sustainable development. Understanding these mechanisms is critical for designing effective environmental education policies and programs that address contemporary environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution, and natural resource depletion.

Key finding: This paper defines environmental education as a process that increases knowledge, awareness, and responsible decision-making skills aimed at environmental protection and sustainable development. It identifies key strategies... Read more
Key finding: Through literature review, the paper highlights that environmental education is essential in creating environmental literacy and forming pro-environmental attitudes necessary for sustainable development. It underscores the... Read more
Key finding: This study traces the evolution of environmental education research, noting its early focus on nature conservation and individual behavior change, shifting towards socially critical and transformative education approaches... Read more

2. What pedagogical approaches and learning models optimize effectiveness in Environmental Education?

This theme centers on pedagogical strategies that enhance successful learning outcomes in environmental education. It investigates active, experiential, and collaborative learning models that develop cognitive skills, critical thinking, and responsible behaviors. Understanding effective teaching methodologies and learning structures is essential for educators to adapt to evolving educational needs, encourage student autonomy, and ensure long-term engagement with environmental issues.

Key finding: The study identifies that successful learning in environmental education is closely tied to learner-centered pedagogies involving active cognitive engagement, problem-solving, collaboration, and self-assessment. It emphasizes... Read more
Key finding: This paper establishes experiential learning as a foundational principle of environmental education, promoting hands-on engagement with real-world environmental contexts. It argues that interdisciplinary approaches... Read more
Key finding: The educational project exemplifies collaborative, inquiry-based learning where students actively investigate local environmental conditions (soil health) and share findings across schools using digital tools. This model... Read more

3. How do knowledge, attitudes, and training of educators influence the implementation and effectiveness of Environmental Education?

This theme explores the critical role of educators' environmental knowledge, perceptions, and training in implementing environmental education effectively. It considers barriers such as insufficient training, misconceptions, and lack of motivation that impede EE curricular integration and proactive teaching. Addressing this theme is vital to improve educator preparedness, thereby enhancing student environmental literacy and fostering institutional support for EE.

Key finding: The study reveals that increased environmental training for teachers significantly improves their knowledge, corrects misconceptions, and positively influences their attitudes toward environmental education. It highlights... Read more
Key finding: The research assesses environmental literacy among university students, showing that while students exhibit high knowledge in some environmental topics, gaps remain in areas like global warming and water scarcity. It stresses... Read more
Key finding: This paper presents a typology of adult environmental education philosophies, revealing diverse educator beliefs and approaches ranging from liberal to radical education. It identifies that educators’ philosophical... Read more

All papers in Environmental Education

This paper presents the calculation of complementary food needs for animal species, which live in the hunting fund no.20 Higeg. This calculation is absolutely necessary to be predetermined and properly distributed, so that in winter, the... more
Çocukların çevreye karşı olumlu tutum ve davranış geliştirmelerinde eğitimin rolü önemlidir. Çalışmanın amacı Türk eğitim sisteminde ilköğretimde 1968’den itibaren ayrı bir ders olarak yer alan sosyal bilgiler dersine ait öğretim... more
After 59 years of independence, and twenty years of uninterrupted civilian rule, Nigerians expected the principles of democracy and sustainable development to have been assimilated, particularly in the Niger Delta, but the optimism has... more
In search for equity at the Rio summit, it was suggested that in case of pollution or any other environmentally negative effect, the costs are inflicted on the responsible agents to pay for the rectification. The Polluter Pay Principle... more
Les piles microbianes o microbial fuel cells (MFC) són uns sistemes bioelectroquímcs que permeten l’obtenció d’energia elèctrica a partir d’energia química tenint com a catalitzador a un microorganisme electrogènic que oxida el... more
This study was conducted to describe students' opinion of energy conservation and environmental issues during campus activities. It was a descriptive quantitative research using survey method. The subjects were 26 students of the first,... more
L'Outdoor education rappresenta un modo diverso di fare didattica, presente ormai da anni nei servizi educativi 0-6 del Comune di Modena. La recezione di questa metodologia da parte del personale educativo è soggetta ad osservazione e... more
Os povos da Europa passaram por duas experiências que estruturaram dois modelos de civilização: a pós-romana (séc. V-X) em que predominaram as relações afetivas, a unidade sendo privilegiada; e a subsequente (séc. XI em diante) em que... more
Introduction o Research design o Development of a conceptual framework of ideas about science o Ideas about Science portrayed by three science curricula in Bangladesh o Nature of scientific knowledge o Methods of science o Institutions... more
espanolEl trabajo presenta el analisis de la articulacion entre el Analisis Textual Discursivo (ATD) y el software ATLAS.ti, a partir de resumenes de investigaciones de tesis y disertaciones de un curso de posgrado. Inicialmente, se... more
Um trabalho como este não se faz sem a participação de muitas pessoas, as quais agradeço sinceramente... Alunos de Vicente de Carvalho que possibilitaram o desenvolvimento deste trabalho. Obrigado pela confiança, por acreditarem que é... more
The judicial systems of many countries contemplate the notion of "environmental crime". A crime always involves suffering; then, through the notion of environmental crime, the law recognizes the existence of a pain inflicted to... more
This paper analyzes two scripting approaches for topographic and geodetic visualization and geomorphological modeling of Bulgaria: R language and Generic Mapping Tools (GMT). The data include high-resolution raster grids: topographic... more
No presente artigo descríbense os instrumentos de ordenación do territorio dos que se dotou Galicia recentemente. As Directrices de Ordenación do Territorio (DOT), marco de referencia das actuacións na materia, así como o primeiro plan... more
Cave-Visitors-X). El control de visitantes, CO2, humedad relativa y temperatura, entre otras variables, medidas desde hace años, nos proporcionan los datos ideales para generar eventos que pueden ser estudiados con Cavix (web-cloud). El... more
La educación ambiental a través de las actividades de turismo educativo en la enseñanza superior
RESUMEN: En el presente Trabajo Fin de Grado se presenta un estudio sobre el rol de la infancia en la actualidad, en las instituciones educativas y en su entorno más cercano: ciudad y comunidad. Primeramente, se lleva a cabo una revisión... more
Outdoor education takes many forms such as wilderness education, adventure-based outdoor education, experiential education, and place-based education. These experiences can last several days, several weeks, several months, and sometimes... more
Outdoor education takes many forms such as wilderness education, adventure-based outdoor education, experiential education, and place-based education. These experiences can last several days, several weeks, several months, and sometimes... more
As the literature about outdoor education grows, it is important that emerging trends are reviewed and the implications for practice discussed. Gender is arguably the most ubiquitous individual difference, and is attracting considerable... more
Critical animal law studies have evolved as a subfield of animal law scholarship to compliment the mainstream liberal approaches including animal welfarism and animal rights. Critical animal law studies draw from, amongst other things,... more
For Donna Haraway, staying with the trouble requires making oddkin, that is, humans, nonhumans and more-than-humans require each other in unexpected collaborations and combinations. "We become-with each other or not at all" (Haraway 2015,... more
O tema desse estudo e sobre a conscientizacao da coleta seletiva necessaria ao cidadao para promover a diminuicao aos danos ambientais e foi escolhido para pesquisa cientifica pela falta de conscientizacao de que todo e qualquer material... more
World Health Organization (2020). WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change: the transformation needed to improve lives and wellbeing sustainably through healthy environments. World Health Organization.
Environmental education represents an important factor in solving environmental issues and teachers have an important role in developing the environmental literacy of future generations. The aim of the present research was to assess and... more
The thesis explores soundwalking, memory and aural history through participatory exploration. My ethnographic work involves extensive documentation of a private museum in Echo Bay, a remote fishing and logging community in the Broughton... more
O trabalho que se apresenta surge como resposta de uma equipa da Universidade de Aveiro/CIDTFF a uma solicitação conjunta do Ministério da Educação e setor de educação da UNICEF de São Tomé e Príncipe (STP) para realização de um estudo... more
The Cycle of Inquiry, together with pedagogical documentation, enable the child's thinking and teacher research to come together in an emergent curriculum
I've long reflected on how our work in the Blue Humanities (an interdisciplinary water-centric approach) can reach broader audiences, so it becomes meaningful and impactful, rather than buried in academic silos. Water, after all, is... more
A Educação Ambiental e a Sustentabilidade (EAS) são fundamentais para a formação de cidadãos críticos e responsáveis. A inserção desses temas no curso de Licenciatura em Educação Primária contribui para a construção de práticas... more
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A pesar de varias décadas de estudios sobre las actitudes hacia el medio ambiente y las variables personales y sociales asociadas a ellas, la educación ambiental no ha logrado generar cambios significativos en la adopción de... more
Este estudio ofrece una revisión exhaustiva y actualizada sobre la diversidad, distribución y estado de conservación de los mamíferos terrestres en el estado de Nayarit. Con base en el análisis de registros museográficos, bases de datos... more
For decades the international standards and requirements postulate severe control over all lifecycle phases of radioactive sources in order to prevent risks associated with exposure of people and the environment. Despite this fact the... more
pesquisa sobre a atuação dos agentes locais em educação ambiental na bacia do Rio Piracicaba foi parte das investigações sobre a mobilização político-ambiental na região. Foram pesquisadas as duas classes de agentes analisadas nos estudos... more
As Áreas de Proteção Ambiental (APAs) foram criadas para proteger o entorno das Áreas de Proteção Permanente, quando a desapropriação das terras ou a transferência dos moradores se mostrasse inviável. A experiência de implantação de APAs,... more
O conceito de saude e amplo e por vezes de classificacao complexa, dado os diversos componentes sociais, psicologicos, fisiologicos e ambientais envolvidos na sua caracterizacao. As definicoes de saude sao apresentadas na literatura, em... more
Resumo Este trabalho apresenta um estudo diagnostico da Educacao Ambiental na Escola, realizado na Escola Estadual de Ensino Medio Silva Gama, pelo grupo do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciacao a Docencia – Educacao Ambiental –... more
A visão é um dos sentidos mais importantes nos humanos e, por isso, a fotografia pode ser uma excelente opção para driblar a falta de recursos na educação ambiental, sensibilizando e ensinando por meio de sua informação e beleza. Partindo... more
Kepiting biola (Uca spp.) memiliki keanekaragaman yang tinggi dan penyebaran yang luas di pesisir pantai terutama daerah tropis dan sub tropis. Eksistensinya dalam ekosistem mudah dikenali karena mempunyai morfologi dimorfisme serta... more
Kepiting biola ( Uca spp.) memiliki keanekaragaman yang tinggi dan penyebaran yang luas di pesisir pantai  terutama daerah tropis dan sub tropis. Eksistensinya dalam ekosistem mudah dikenali karena mempunyai morfologi  dimorfisme serta... more
The main aim of this study is investigating environmental education (EE) in Nigerian context. However, to provide the reader better understanding of EE, some fundamental information about the general education system in Nigeria was... more
Η βιωματική μάθηση ανταποκρίνεται στις σύγχρονες ανάγκες της εκπαίδευσης γιατί μετατρέπει το σχολείο από χώρο παθητικής μετάδοσης γνώσης σε χώρο εμπειρίας, ανακάλυψης και δημιουργίας, προετοιμάζοντας τους μαθητές για έναν κόσμο που... more
Cultures, ethnologie et formes L'automne 1999 en danse A u cours des années 1990, dans les arts plastiques, une réflexion théorique s'est constituée autour des « formes chaudes » et des « formes froides ». Il s'agit, au départ, d'opposer... more
Efforts to build pro-environment behavior have been strengthened by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry through Adiwiyata green school program. This current study aimed at describing the patterns of building pro-environmental... more
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