Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2000. / Advisers: Swee-Hin Toh, Virginia Cawagas. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Sc. in Environmental Management and Policy)--Lunds universitet, 2004? / Bibliography: p. 68-70.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

This research addresses conceptual and practical issues in the field of environmental education. Environmental education is a compound and contested field in terms of both environmental and educafional ideologies. Its practice is also influenced by perspectives of context and change. Hence, the operationalisation of environmental education might be expected to vary across different ideologies and contexts. Thus, this research attempts to ore the operationalisation from theory into practice in environmental education. 'he approach of this research derives from those issues in the research context of education lental education that are currently of most concern. That is, policy-makers and I practitioners expect researchers to answer question such as "what works?" because they face the pressure of making decisions, in response, this research attempts to shed light on the nature of environmental education by using an evidence-based approach. However, most lence-based work in education is grounded in a post-positivistic perspective. This research, by contrast, employs evidence drawn from qualitative inquiry that recognises the significance depth contextual understanding. Thus the research sits within the qualitative paradigm and employs case study methodology.

The awareness of sustainable development has been increasing significantly in the Thai manufacturing industry since the financial crisis in 1997. The government has launched several initiatives to promote the development of sustainable products as the concept has a potential to stimulate the national economy and address the sustainability issues. Although the progress has been reflected through the launch of numerous products in the market, most of the products available were only claimed to be sustainable or environmentally friendly. Education is a prerequisite to achieve the integration of sustainable design as it equips stakeholders with knowledge and skills required to be the future decision makers. In other words, it enables designers to create products that contribute to sustainable development. However, the researcher found a lack of sustainable design learning in Thai industrial/product design courses. This situation has motivated the researcher to carry out this PhD research with an aim to support the implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) into Thai higher education institutions (HEIs). The literature review emphasised the need to tailor the theoretical framework for Thai lecturers due to the lack of ESD training and appropriate materials. It also indicated the lack of publications related to the Thai context and the requirements to identify barriers and needs of the target users. The shortfall was addressed through a series of interviews; experts from three different disciplines (government, business and education sectors) were invited to participate in the interview sessions and reveal the status of sustainable design and ESD in Thailand. The findings were then used to construct the ESD framework that is specific to Thai industrial/product design courses. The SustainAble web-tool was developed to make it more effective in enabling the framework to comply with the needs of Thai design lecturers. Usability testing was employed to test the framework that was presented through the web-tool. The framework evaluation demonstrated the success of the framework development and underlined the need for the web-tool. The tool can fulfill the framework and allow it to be practically applied in the context of Thai design education.

This paper analyses an ongoing economization trend in the sphere of higher education (HE) and discusses its implications on higher education for sustainable development (HESD). The sources of this trend are connected with neoliberalism understood as a political project that seeks to extend competitive market forces, consolidate a market-friendly constitution, and promote individual freedom. In global HE neoliberalism, decision-makers, be it educational, scientific, or other, are pressured to assess how their activities impact financially on the individual, organizational, and institutional levels and/or the imperatives of an internationally competitive economy. The paper provides a contemporary analysis of the rise of neoliberalism in HE, understood as the specific trend of an academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime explained by Jessop's six analytic distinct and potentially overlapping stages of economization. This analysis is based on a review of European policies from 2006 until 2017 and explains characteristics of current economization strategies. Their core principles relating to higher education are about improving economic performance based on knowledge and innovation. Smart growth is defined politically as the main purpose of HE and positioning students as future workers, with the right higher skills, as the means. The relevance of students' skills higher education institutions (HEI) are urged to develop highly depend on business demands. European policies are driven by a comprehensive entrepreneurial agenda restructuring the organizational mechanisms in HE. Accountability towards the labour market and skills performance of students set this agenda. Funding strategies rest on strong industry ties and diversification of revenue streams depend on HEI capability to establish tech-driven knowledge alliances between research, education and business. These new intermediary and powerful alliances drive economization strategies, influence curriculum development and decide on relevant higher level skills. Respective learning practices are oriented strongly towards developing entrepreneurial and digital skills based on personalized learning environments. Currently HESD adapts towards a neoliberal education agenda rather than preventing further shifts from a capitalist towards a competitive financialized economy. A profound critique would have to question the dominant economization trends in higher education i.e. the very purpose of education and the current raison d¿etre of HEI. The core of the critique might build on new institutionalized learning environments allowing deep, social learning and, hence, the potential of HEI to act as social catalysts empowering collective and disruptive agency. / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

Through case study research, two pioneering schools in Canada that developed whole-school approaches to education for sustainability were investigated to illuminate how conceptual root metaphors resonate with ecological philosophy and educational practices. The study considers philosophy, policy formation, organization/ management structures, buildings/ grounds and resources, curriculum development, and teaching and learning practices at each of these schools. The findings are highlighted and further informed by what the administrators, teachers, community volunteers, parents, and students perceive to be the successes, obstacles and needs they faced in trying to establish their pioneering approaches. These insights provided methodological triangulation as they reinforced the literature review and analysis of findings. The case study includes an Independent school founded and designed specifically around bioregionalism so as to promote sustainability, and a government-run elementary school that decided to teach and model sustainability. The analysis reveals differences in the underlying conceptual metaphors and the significant extent to which these metaphors resonated with practice. This research suggests that root conceptual metaphors are significant and can be associated with various intentions and enactments of the whole curriculum. Ecological and mechanistic metaphorical perspectives have been found to be associated with policy formation, organization and management structures, decision-making and communication; curriculum development; community involvement; changes to the buildings and grounds; and teaching/ learning practices. Although this research suggests that where ecological metaphors were in play school practices were more strongly associated with an ecological model in education for sustainability, it has also shown that this may not be sufficient. Being aware of the underlying conceptual root metaphors in all aspects of the educational approach is also a critical step. The context within which a school operates may preclude or act as a strong obstacle to change. Simply grafting a sustainability program imbued with ecological metaphors onto the accepted educational system, one founded on contradictory ‘mechanistic’ metaphors, may not be as effective as intended as metaphors seem to seep into the school’s culture and systems. This, however, implies that there needs to be freedom and room to challenge significant systemic obstacles. There would need to be noteworthy changes in the socio-political structure that is in play. Accordingly, for schools to lead the change towards an ecological worldview or paradigm shift, schools would need to be free to adopt an alternative vision of education, ethos and particular organizational structures.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-05T17:44:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 KÁTIA VANESSA MARCON RIBEIRO.pdf: 2472397 bytes, checksum: 695ee03859f0163182d25ec7234833b0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-05T17:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 KÁTIA VANESSA MARCON RIBEIRO.pdf: 2472397 bytes, checksum: 695ee03859f0163182d25ec7234833b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-30 / Environmental education arises in order to form a conscious global population and holds knowledge in order to make them aware of the environment and the problems related to this, but also able to solve them and prevent their recurrence, preserving it and ensuring that it is intended to sustainable development. With basis in the Belgrade Conference (1975), this education has its objectives, functions, strategies, characteristics and recommendations set out in the International Conference in Tbilisi in 1977. When talking about environmental education, there are several documents that stand out, and They put the human being as holder of the environment (Stockholm Declaration - 1972). Man is the center of concerns for sustainable development (Declaration of Rio de Janeiro - 1992), as is also the agent capable, through education, to positively change the environment or simply one that no longer degrade by force a process of education, awareness, awareness of the socio-environmental theme. Environmental education (EE) in the educational process for the formation of men, from formal education and in non-formal, is intended to provide the ability to make informed decisions and participate in discussions in the community with regard to environmental issues. The purpose of this work is to highlight through conferences, declarations, international action, national and goiana laws in favor of formal environmental education the importance of this as a leitmotif for the rights to the environment and sustainable development, and score the effectiveness of Education environmental State of Goiás. data being presented, obtained along with the Department of Education of Goiás, in order to demonstrate the structure of the programs applied to environmental education in our state, which currently exists in the formal education of the public network, "More Program education ", the" TSA - Sustainable Schools "used in elementary school, and the" Understanding the Urban Environment "in high school, which have in their programmatic basis, in order to form / educate children and adolescents in critical men and conscious about the environment as objective the recommendations of international conferences. / A educação Ambiental surge com o intuito de formar uma população mundial consciente e detentora de conhecimento a fim de que fiquem atentos ao meio ambiente e aos problemas relacionados a este, como também capaz de resolve-los e de evitar que se repitam, preservando-o e assegurando o que é pretendido no desenvolvimento sustentável. Com fundamentação na Conferência de Belgrado (1975), esta Educação, tem seus objetivos, funções, estratégias, características e recomendações definidos na Conferência Internacional de Tbilisi, em 1977. Ao se falar sobre Educação Ambiental, vários são os documentos que a destacam, e colocam o ser humano como titular do direito ao meio ambiente (Declaração de Estocolmo - 1972). O homem é o centro das preocupações com o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Declaração do Rio de Janeiro – 1992), como também é o agente capaz, por meio da educação, de modificar positivamente o meio ambiente ou, simplesmente, aquele que não mais degradará, por força de um processo de educação, de conscientização, de sensibilização à temática socioambiental. Educação Ambiental (EA) no processo educativo para a formação dos homens, desde o ensino formal como no não formal, tem a finalidade de propiciar a capacidade de tomar decisões fundamentadas e participar de discussões em sua comunidade no que se refere às questões ambientais. O intuito deste trabalho é destacar através das conferências, declarações, ações internacionais, leis nacionais e goiana em prol da educação ambiental formal a importância desta, como um fio condutor, para os direitos ao ambiente e ao desenvolvimento sustentável, e pontuar a efetividade da Educação Ambiental no estado de Goiás. Sendo apresentado dados, obtidos juntamente com a Secretaria de Educação de Goiás, a fim de demonstrar a estruturação dos programas aplicados à Educação Ambiental em nosso Estado, onde existe atualmente no ensino formal da rede Pública, os “Programa Mais Educação”, o “PDDE - Escolas Sustentáveis” utilizados no Ensino Fundamental, e o “Entendendo o Meio Ambiente Urbano” no Ensino Médio, os quais possuem em sua base programática, o intuito de formar/educar crianças e adolescentes, em homens críticos e conscientes com o meio ambiente, como objetiva as recomendações das conferências internacionais.