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Teaching for Environmental Literacy

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2000
(2000). Teaching for Environmental Literacy. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 23-24.
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Measuring Environmental Health Literacy

2018
Environmental health literacy (EHL) is an emerging framework that defines the knowledge and skills that prepare people to make health-protective decisions using available environmental data (Finn S, O’Fallon L. Environ Health Perspect 125(4):495–501 (2017)). According to the Society for Public Health Education (Society for Public Health Education. What
Kathleen M. Gray, Marti Lindsey
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A Curriculum to Enhance Environmental Literacy

Journal of Engineering Education, 2002
AbstractEnvironmental literacy is an important part of undergraduate education. Such literacy is optimally gained with an approach that weaves together the necessary disciplinary knowledge within a problem‐based context. This paper describes the result of efforts over a decade developing and teaching an environmental literacy course at the ...
Indira Nair, Sharon Jones, Jennifer White   +2 more
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Teaching Environmental Literacy

2010
As the title indicates, this book advocates teaching environmental education at the university level. Taking it a step further, the editors and chapter contributors recommend requiring not just environmental appreciation courses but also adjustments to general curricula that would incorporate environmental education into all classes. This work provides
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Environmental literacy: the ultimate goal for environmental education

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 1999
More than half of the world population has a number of common environmental problems related to such factors as their ecological conditions, lack of economic vitality, and poverty. Although these factors also exist in industrial countries, their magnitude and impact are more severe in the agrarian world.
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SITUATING ‘PLACE’ FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY

English Studies in Africa, 2009
Abstract This essay reflects on recent experiments in teaching English at a South African university in response to the local/global crisis of environment and development. It suggests that if our pedagogy in literary studies is to enable a discourse equipped to demonstrate the key insight that ecological sustainability and social justice are ...
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Environmental Literacy and Educational Ideal

Environmental Values, 1994
Environmental literacy is not encouraged by discipline-based education. Discipline-based education is damaging not only because it breaks the link between experience and theory but also because it encourages learners to believe that complex practical problems can be solved using the resources of just one or two specialist disciplines or frameworks of ...
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Environmental Literacy

2021
Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Gregory Newman, Paul H. Evangelista, Katherine S. Woodmansee   +4 more
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Developing Your Environmental Literacy

2010
Environmental literacy denotes an individual’s set of abilities and commitments necessary to find, understand, assess, and act on information about the health of our environment. So, environmental literacy embodies values, beliefs and attitudes toward sustaining a healthy environment.
Richard R. Jurin, Donny Roush, Jeff Danter   +2 more
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A Measurement of the Environmental Literacy of Nursing Students for a Sustainable Environment

Sustainability, 2022
Mukaddes Örs
exaly