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AERA 2007 Annual Meeting program April 11-15, 2007 Click here for a printable version of the program. Presenters indicated by * Ecological & Environmental Education Special Interest Group 1.
Managing, Locating, and Theorizing Human-Nature/ Ecological Relationships 2. Crossing Borders (1): From Environmental Education Teaching to Evaluation 3. Crossings Borders (2): Examining and Reexamining Environmental Education Practice and Research 4. Environmental Education Research: Retrospect and Prospect 5. Going Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Applying Novel Methods and Perspectives to Environmental Education 6. Sustainable Development: Practice, Policy, Indicators, Tensions, and Beyond 7. Empowering Young People Through Environmental Adventures, Motivators, Narratives, and Classrooms 8. Ecological and Environmental Education - SIG Business Meeting · top · |
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1. Managing, Locating, and Theorizing Human-Nature/ Ecological Relationships Monday, April 9, 12:00pm - 1:30pm Abstract · Using a number of different frameworks and perspectives, this paper session includes four presentations with a focus on the delicate human and nature/ecological relationships. Management of Human-Nature Relationships in Environmental Education Resources Farming and Land Management as Resources for Environmental Education Student Knowledge of the Relationships Between Human Actions and Environmental Systems Down to Earth: Locating Ecology and Environmental Education Close to Home Chair · Justin S. Dillon (King's College - London) Discussants
SIG-EEE 2. Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society 3. Crossing Academic Boundaries: What Does It Mean to Practice Transdisciplinary Teaching in Postgraduate Environmental Education? 4. Using Evaluation Data to Redesign an Ecology Center 5. "MEERA" - A Web-Based Clearinghouse for Advancing Environmental Education Evaluation
2. Toward the Greening of Feminist Pedagogy: A Reexamination of Ecofeminism 3. An Analysis of Sustainable Development Themes in Science Curriculum Standards 4. Secondary Students' Understandings of Groundwater 5. "I'm Not an Environmental Activist": An Exploration of Identity and Commitment to Issues of Sustainability 6. "Sitting on an Old Grey Stone": Meditations on Emotional Understanding · top · SIG-EEE Tuesday, April 10, 2:15pm - 3:45pm Abstract · In this interview style session, Alan Reid and Bill Scott will promote discussion of the first ten years of the international refereed journal, 'Environmental Education Research'. They will present an overview of the trends and shifts of the work taking place in and around environmental education, and explore recent commentaries and reflections on this work, based on their experience as editors of the journal, and of a newly-published collection, 'Researching Education and the Environment: retrospect and prospect', that invited comment and critique on key themes within the research field from a range of perspectives and a variety of scholars. · top ·
SIG-EEE Wednesday, April 11, 8:15am - 9:45am Deconstructing Early Childhood Content, Context, and Pedagogy Through Everyday Environmental Education Experiences The Impact of Identity on the Pedagogical Practice of Environmental Educators Researching Teachers' Thinking and Practice in Environmental Education: Reflections on the Research Framework
Discussant · Justin S. Dillon (King's College - London) · top ·
SIG-EEE Abstract · This paper session invites an expanded discussion on sustainable development, a discussion that reflects both advances and tensions on practice and research in sustainable development particularly as it relates to education. Educating Chinese Farming Women for Sustainable Development: An Ethnographic Study All Mixed Up? Instrumental and Emancipatory Learning Toward a More Sustainable World: Considerations for EE Policymakers Indicators for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Challenges, and Progress in Relation to Education Globalization and Environmental Education: Looking Beyond Sustainable Development Chair · Amy N. Cutter-Mackenzie (Monash University) · top ·
SIG-EEE Thursday, April 12, 2:15pm - 3:45pm Abstract · This interactive symposium session brings together four presentations focusing on adventures, motivators, narratives and classrooms that empower young people to participate in and interact with their environment. The session solicits an intensified focus on quality environmental education experiences. Motivations to Environmental Action Participation by Exemplar Youth: UNEP International Children's Conference on the Environment Leadership Training and Environmental Education: The Youth Enrichment Adventure *Margaret Bolick (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi), *Russel Miget (Texas Sea Grant Program), *Douglas J. Loveless (Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi) Narratives of Location: Using Landscape to Explore the Relationships Between Epistemology and Place in Science Chair · Marcia Diane McKenzie (University of British Columbia)
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Ecological and Environmental Education - SIG Business Meeting Thursday, April 12, 6:15pm - 7:45pm Chair · Robert B. Stevenson (State University of New York - Buffalo)
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Ecological and Environmental Education - SIG Meal and Fieldtrip
EEE SIG Dinner The EEE SIG dinner will be held at the Green Zebra on Monday night (April 9) at 7:00pm. The cost of the dinner is $50 / guest. It will be a delightful four course dinner in a private dinning area for the EEE SIG. Please RSVP to Amy Cutter-Mackenzie by April 4. Fieldtrip Options We will have two possible fieldtrip options to offer: 1) Tour of the Center for Neighborhood Technology's Green Building; and 2) Eden Place Nature Center. Both fieldtrips will be on Tuesday morning (April 10) from 9:00am - 12:00pm. There is no cost for the fieldtrips (just local travel expenses). However, we would like to gauge members' interest in doing either fieldtrip before making travel arrangements. Please email Amy Cutter-Mackenzie to advise if you would like to do one of the fieldtrips.
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