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Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method

Environmental Education Research
As environmental challenges increase in scope and scale, new conceptualizations for environmental literacy are needed. Specifically, notions of environmental literacy must move from those at the individual level to those at the group, or community, level.
Lauren Gibson, K. C. Busch, Kathryn T. Stevenson, Lynn Chesnut, Bethany B Cutts, E. Seekamp   +5 more
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Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center

The Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
We explored the relationship between the fulfillment of students’ psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness; student engagement; and student outcomes related to environmental literacy at a residential environmental education (EE ...
B. T. Frensley, M. Stern, R. B. Powell, M. Sorice   +3 more
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Environmental discourse in Brazilian English-as-a-foreign-language textbooks: socio-discursive practices and their implications for developing students’ critical environmental literacy

Environmental Education Research, 2022
This article reports on a study that investigated the extent to which the discourse used to approach environmental issues in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) textbooks in Brazilian public secondary schools helps students develop critical environmental
V.L.L. Cristovão, B. Sanches, G. Smart
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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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Environmental Literacy for All

2021
This chapter discusses concepts of sustainability, socially critical action, and social justice in relation to environmental literacy, which is one of the central foundations of global citizenship. In that respect, the emphasis is placed on the maxim: Think globally, act locally!
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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 of undergraduate college students: Development of the environmental literacy instrument (ELI)

School Science and Mathematics, 2018
AbstractAs the world population continues to increase and natural resources become limited, environmental education (EE) in universities play an essential role in developing environmentally literate. This study measured the environmental literacy (EL) levels (familiar knowledge, factual knowledge, attitude, behavior) of undergraduate college students ...
Jenny Lloyd‐Strovas, Christine Moseley, Tom Arsuffi   +2 more
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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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Environmental Literacy: Behavior Oriented

2020
Environmental education has been promoted in Taiwan for more than two decades. In related fields, pedagogical materials and methods of environmental educational curricula and pro-environmental behaviors are two major research topics, both of which touch on the so-called attitude-behavior gap; that is, knowledge does not necessarily lead to positive ...
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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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