Education for Sustainability - Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 A Program for Change Chapter 2 Formal Education Chapter 3 Nonformal Education Chapter 4 Cross-cutting Themes Chapter 5 Moving Forward Conclusion Endnotes Acknowledgments and Contributors This report is the product of work initiated at the "National Forum on Partnerships Supporting Education about the Environment," a demonstration project of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, held at the Presidio, San Francisco, California, in the fall of 1994. Many private, nonprofit, and government sector organizations participated actively in developing the recommendations in this Agenda for Action .
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Girls in Engineering: February #STEMchat I'm thrilled to be working with the folks at the Engineers Week Foundation to bring attention to Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, part of the larger National Engineers Week celebration. Engineers Week takes place February 17-23, with a special focus on girls in engineering on February 21. Our chat on Wednesday night, February 20 will kick things off. As the mom of STEM-loving boys, I've noticed that many programs that naturally draw them in tend to include few, if any, girls. According to E Week supporter Barbara Rusinko, "In the US, women account for nearly 60 percent of college students, but fewer than one in five of these women are engineering students." Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is an important initiative to help girls learn more about engineering and find those crucial role models and mentors. The February #STEMchat will be also be using the hashtag #EweekGD" (E Week, Girl Day). Our fab panel will include:
Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education (MSc/PgDip/PgCert) For over 35 years the Outdoor Education section of the University of Edinburgh has been at the international forefront of providing postgraduate degrees in all aspects of outdoor education. Why choose our Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education programme? An outdoor-education programme has been conducted in its present or similar form for over 30 years at the University, and the programme has an international reputation for its academic and professional quality. The diploma programme has provided a conceptual and practical training for many of those now influential in the profession, while the MSc is unique in Europe and one of the few in the world. Over many years staff in the outdoor-education section have developed a programme structure which addresses the key features of the discipline: outdoor activities/skills, personal and social education and environmental education. Full details about the programme Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education programme
Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM Darwin Online: Darwin's Publications British Entomology [←click finches for illustrations] 1829-1832. [Records of captured insects]. Letters on Geology [1835]. The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 1838-1843. Part 1 Fossil Mammalia by R. Journal of Researches (or Voyage of the Beagle) The narrative of the voyages of H.M. King, P. 1839. Questions About the Breeding of Animals [1839]. Geology of The Voyage of The Beagle 1842. Letters on guanacos 1844. Brayley Testimonials 1845. Hooker Testimonials 1845. Discoveries in Australia 1846. Manual of Scientific Enquiry 1849. Living Cirripedia (Barnacles) A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. 1851 [=1852]. Fossil Cirripedia 1851. Huxley Testimonials 1851. Letter on the bookselling question 1852. Testimonials of Adam White 1865. On the Origin of Species Online variorum edition 1859. Query to Army Surgeons 1862. Fertilisation of Orchids 1862. Memoir of Professor Henslow 1862. An appeal [Darwin, Emma and Darwin, C. Climbing Plants 1865. Queries about Expression 1867.
Sustainable education - towards a deep learning response to unsustainability “This century may well be one of relearning on a grand scale across society…necessitating a metamorphosis of many of our current education and learning constructs” (Williams, 2004:4). It was early 2001, and the publisher of the Schumacher Briefings and I were having a chat in his office about the title of the new education Briefing. I had just made a bid for ‘Sustainable Education’. ‘No’, I said, ‘I don’t want to call it education ‘for’ anything, and yes, ‘Sustainable Education’ is exactly the title I want’. “a change of educational culture, one which develops and embodies the theory and practice of sustainability in a way which is critically aware. We need to recognise the underlying factors and ideas which still make most educational practice a servant of the past, and – importantly – articulate a persuasive and practicable alternative. Mary Catherine Bateson suggests: There is nothing particularly mysterious about this. References Dr.
NCAT Homepage How To Do It The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) is committed to providing the expertise necessary to help higher education institutions achieve their student access, success and retention goals while reducing their instructional costs. Through constant testing and refinement of its course redesign methodology and by working with a diverse group of public and private colleges, universities and community colleges, NCAT has demonstrated that all post-secondary institutions are capable of achieving improved outcomes at a reduced cost. If you would like to learn more and to replicate this success, this is how we recommend you get started. NCAT was established in 1999 with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Institutions, organizations and companies are encouraged to take full advantage of the resources offered on the NCAT website. Course Redesign Planning Resources Analysis, Publications and Change Strategies New to Course Redesign?
Education Team Building Early Childhood Center Downtown Las Vegas is a hub of urban revitalization. With tech companies, budding entrepreneurs, and families flocking to the area from all over the world, many have young children in tow with education on their minds. Connie Yeh and her passionate team are on a mission to create a safe educational environment where children can learn, grow, and explore. 9th Bridge School will open its doors in August 2013 to the next generation of dreamers and innovators. Yeh heads up the Downtown Project Education initiative and has built a team of experienced educators, and developed both global and local think tanks populated by experts in positive psychology, curriculum mapping, special education, child development, and neuroscience. 9th Bridge will host children aged six weeks to Kindergarten, led by teachers that hold both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in early childhood education and development.
Sustainability Frontiers - ‘Go out on a limb… That’s where the blossom grows’ – Tom Forsyth, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Scotland * Administration / Welcome An Educational Partnership for School Districts BOCES serves its component districts by offering a variety of educationally focused programs, services, and support systems including career and technical education, special and alternative education, administrative and financial services, human resources, program and professional development, information and technology support, and shared itinerant staff. The governing body of BOCES is a BOCES Cooperative Board with membership from each of the 12 component school districts. Number of Component Schools Served The 12 school districts are: Brookfield, Clinton, Holland Patent, New York Mills, New Hartford, Oriskany, Remsen, Sauquoit Valley, Utica, Waterville, Westmoreland and Whitesboro. Geographic Area ServedOHM BOCES serves School districts in a 549 square-mile area comprising Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties.
Science Museums and the Popularization of Science in Brazil “Every artist must go where the people are…” (Nos Bailes da Vida, from Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant). 1What is there in common between the two children in the photos presented in Figure 1? They are the most convincing representation of what psychology teaches us and that is usually propelled as one of the main motivations for the initiatives of popularization of science: the innate curiosity of human beings, which is the main power behind science. Being a common trait of every human being, but pushed away from the common citizen, science must now be demystified; it is not something that can only be understood by a few enlightened, but something that can be accessed by everyone. To be understood would be enough to associate it with our daily lives. 2Figure 1. 3We do not say this possessed by a romantic vision, preaching that everyone can know everything and that science must be everyone’s activity. 2 Fourth National Week of Science and Technology 10Why? Table 1.