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Michelle Spiegel; Emily K. Penner; Andrew Penner – Urban Education, 2024
We use novel information about fixture-specific water lead levels (WLLs) in Portland, Oregon schools to explore inequalities in students' potential for exposure to lead in drinking water at school. We find that Black and Hispanic students were in classrooms with higher WLLs than white students primarily because they attended different schools. The…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Equal Education, Disadvantaged, Poisoning
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Lydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
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Molden, Olivia C. – Field Methods, 2020
This short take presents story-mapping as a research technique that incorporates multiple methods and data sources to build visual narratives of individual and collective experiences. The goals of story-mapping are the following: (1) iteratively synthesize the collection, analysis, and representation of spatial, visual, and textual information as…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Maps, Experience, Foreign Countries
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Yuri Enrique Herrera Burstein; Niria Marleny Goñi Avila – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to identify and analyze research that promotes sustainable consumption among university students, understand what areas of consumption were addressed, how consumption was intended to become more sustainable and what results were reported. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was conducted using the…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Sustainability, Consumer Economics, College Students
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Catriona Martin; Karola Dillenburger – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
People with autism are approximately twice as likely to die from drowning than members of the general population. Drowning can take place in quite small bodies of water. Therefore, acquiring good water safety skills is of the utmost importance. A systematic review of research into effective behavioural interventions for water safety and swim…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Safety, Aquatic Sports, Water
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Pei, Bo; Xing, Wanli; Lee, Hee-Sun – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Science classes should support students' development of scientific argumentation. While previous studies have analyzed argumentative texts, they have overlooked the ways in which other types of representations, including images, affect the production of such texts. In addition, studies into the use of visual images in science education have…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Process Skills, Persuasive Discourse, Visual Aids
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Walker, Judith; Walter, Pierre – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
This article critically examines how news media, as a form of public pedagogy, functioned to 'educate' the public about the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, USA. Drawing on literature in public pedagogy, social movement learning and communication studies, we employed ethnographic content analysis to identify emergent patterns,…
Descriptors: News Media, Newspapers, News Reporting, Social Action
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Berchin, Issa Ibrahim; Grando, Vanessa dos Santos; Marcon, Gabriela Almeida; Corseuil, Louise; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze strategies that promote sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs), focusing on the case study of a federal institute of higher education in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach: The research was based on a scientific literature review on sustainability in HEIs, to identify the recurrent actions for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Change Strategies, Case Studies
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Yudha Gusti Wibowo; Ali Sadikin – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2019
The transformation in education must be directed in accordance with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program. This article aimed to discuss the potential support of New Biology in achieving the formulated SDGs. This literature review covered 31 articles which were published since 2010 to 2019. The keywords used to collect the data were new…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Biology
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Kucher, Greta; Moore, Kelsey; Rodia, Rachel; Moser, Christy Szczech – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2015
Aquatic therapy has long been highlighted in the literature as a potentially powerful therapeutic intervention. This review will highlight basic definitions of aquatic therapy, review salient research, and identify specific diagnoses that may benefit from aquatic therapy. Online resources, blogs, and books that occupational therapists may find…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Aquatic Sports, Water, Children
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Savanovitch, Chantal; Sauvant-Rochat, Marie-Pierre – Education Sciences, 2013
It is a commonplace that water is essential for life, but to what extent is the general public, and children in particular, aware of how water affects health? The aim of this review was to consider the relationship between water and health under three main headings: the importance of hydration for children, dietary intake of water, and water as an…
Descriptors: Water, Teaching Methods, Dietetics, Hygiene
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Moore, Kathleen; Bradley, Lucy K. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (EMGVs) are recruited and trained to answer questions and diagnose gardening problems for the public. Most states have developed an EMGV Manual for use in the initial training. Thirty-two EMGV Training manuals from across the United States were reviewed for form and content. While many of the manuals have…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Gardening, Volunteers, Guides
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Ahamer, Gilbert – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to inquire about the applicability of the concept of granularity to the necessity of future research or--as often called in the European Union--forward looking (FL). After theoretical deliberation, it uses a planned world-wide information system as a case study for applying the notion of granularity regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Case Studies, Economics
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Hamid, Suraya; Ijab, Mohamad Taha; Sulaiman, Hidayah; Anwar, Rina Md.; Norman, Azah Anir – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The explosion of social media use such as Facebook among higher education students is deemed to have great potential in widely disseminating environmental sustainability awareness. The paper aims to capture, summarise, synthesise and comment on the role of social media to garner interest of students and staff on environmental…
Descriptors: Social Media, Environmental Education, Recycling, Energy Conservation
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Campbell, Coral; Smith, Erica; Siesmaa, Emma – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
Throughout the world, people have to deal with the issues of global warming and other more direct consequences of environmental change. This paper considers how a local newspaper has an educative function in a small community in advising people of specific issues and learning how to deal with changing resources. Across the period of several months…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Rural Areas, Newspapers
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