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Peasland, Emma L.; Henri, Dominic C.; Morrell, Lesley J.; Scott, Graham W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Employability is a key issue for students and Higher Education Institutions and a key component of employability is possessing the skills a role requires. In the environmental sciences, fieldwork provides an opportunity for students to develop employability-enhancing technical and transferable skills. However, students can have difficulty…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
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Magntorn, Ola; Hellden, Gustav – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
This paper addresses student-teachers' ability to "read nature" in a woodland habitat before and after a 10-week ecology course. "Reading nature" is our definition of the ability to observe, describe and explain basic ecology in the field. Data consists of field-based pre-course and post-course interviews followed up by…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Field Experience Programs, Ecology, Environmental Education