EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT VIA SCHOOL GARDEN

Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE): results from two feasibility pilot studies

BACKGROUND Low physical activity (PA) and fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption in early childhood are continued public health challenges. This manuscript describes outcomes from two pilot studies for Sustainability via Active Garden Education (SAGE), a program designed to increase PA and F&V consumption among 3 to 5 year old children. METHODS SAGE was developed using community-based particip...

Education for Sustainability

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Development of courseware for early school years‘ science education

Recent research in science education recommends the development of didactic resources that approach relations between Science, Technology and Society [STS] and articulate formal and non-formal educational contexts such as science museums and centres, the Internet and television. We consider it’s important to implement those recommendations through the use of ICT in science education. Therefore ...

Development of a Vocational Education Curriculum for the High School

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...