Purpose: This paper aims to describe how a sustainability-focused program in higher education can provide training and key experiences for implementing transdisciplinary approaches. The case is a fieldwork-based training course called the Global Field Exercise (GFE) at the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo. The…

Describes activities carried out entirely off campus by 18 nonscience-major undergraduates in a beginning course which is designed to help them learn to observe, to ask questions, and to seek for answers. (CC)

The development and operation of an individually guided elementary science education program are described. With the program, a basic set of preteaching activities are presented. Lesson planning, behavioral objectives, management objectives, and evaluation topics are studied in the university setting. Field experiences include classroom teacher…

The Inner College of the University of Connecticut was organized to try to make alternative education work--it provides the opportunity for each student to design a personalized education, suited to his or her own aspirations and interests. This catalog and resource magazine describes offerings by the Inner College designed to accomplish this…