In 2002, the United Nations designates 2005-2014 as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. In China, Education for Sustainable Development [ESD] has been recognized as an important component in the new educational reform. However, there is an implementation gap between government policy and classroom practice. Teachers play a pivotal role in curriculum implementation. Therefore, knowing what teachers' think about ESD is the first step towards understanding the implementation of ESD. / Key words. sustainable development; education for sustainable development; teacher's belief; geography teacher; instrument development; values; teaching belief; China / Quantitative research methods supported by interview are used in this research. After analyzing relevant literature on ESD and interviewing 16 Beijing geography teachers, it is found that the ESD beliefs comprised two components: sustainability values [VESD] and teaching beliefs of ESD [TESD]. Based on ESD principles and some environmental beliefs instruments, a first draft of VESD instrument was developed and piloted among Yinchuan and Beijing geography teachers. A second draft was then developed and tested with over 300 Guangzhou and Changchun geography teachers. The final VESD instrument with four dimensions has been found with a stable structure and acceptable reliability and validity. These four dimensions are respect and care for the community of life; ecological integrity; social and economic justice; democracy, nonviolence and peace. / The aim of this research is to develop an effective and easy-to-use ESD instrument to reveal teacher's beliefs about ESD. In the process of developing the instrument, it is essential to study: What are teachers' ESD beliefs? Are ESD beliefs made up environmental values and teaching beliefs? What are the structure and content of the values and teaching beliefs of ESD? / The TESD instrument is found to have three factors with good reliability and validity. These three factors are namely: relevance to daily life, student's need in the future, and integrated teaching. / With these two instruments which can be used to tap teacher's ESD beliefs in China, researchers interested in ESD implementation can conduct future researches on teachers' beliefs about ESD and the potential implementation problems. / 楊光. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 256-274). / Adviser: Chi Chung Lam. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 0867. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xiang gang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 256-274). / Yang Guang.

Este estudo analisa trabalhos de formação de catadores(as) de materiais recicláveis, realizados coletivamente, na Região Metropolitana da Grande São Paulo, entre 1997 e 2008, com a finalidade de identificar elementos para subsidiar a construção participativa de soluções sustentáveis para a problemática socioambiental de resíduos sólidos nas áreas urbanas. Essas ações educativas estão imbricadas num momento de disseminação de diálogos e ações de Educação Ambiental, voltados para o controle social das políticas públicas e institucionais para a gestão ambiental participativa. A análise dos trabalhos de formação exigiu o levantamento do contexto histórico, dos debates sobre o pensar e agir da Educação Ambiental; das condições de vida e trabalho dos catadores; da problemática socioambiental de resíduos sólidos e as potencialidades e desafios para a consolidação da coleta seletiva como alternativa de economia solidária. Foram foco de análise os trabalhos educativos relativos à organização da Coleta Seletiva no núcleo habitacional Pedra sobre Pedra, na Zona Sul de São Paulo; a mobilização de grupos de coleta na cidade, no Fórum Recicla São Paulo, movimento social de catadores; a Capacitação para implantação das primeiras Centrais de Triagem do Programa de Coleta Seletiva Solidária de São Paulo/2003; o fortalecimento de catadores e do diálogo com o poder público, no Projeto Coleta Seletiva Brasil Canadá. Essas ações educativas estão embasadas teoricamente na multirreferencialidade e no entendimento do compromisso com a construção de sujeitos autônomos para uma sociedade democrática. Os elementos de Educação Ambiental emancipatória foram identificados neste doutorado e, na ação educativa, foram trabalhados por meio de metodologias interativas no coletivo dos catadores. Assim, destacamos os avanços proporcionados pela formação, revelados nos encontros e nas vozes dos catadores: a autovalorização; a valorização do próprio trabalho, o fortalecimento da identidade, apropriação dos processos vividos e o planejamento coletivo de ações locais. Com a avaliação realizada neste doutorado, evidenciou-se a necessidade de trabalhos futuros para estender as ações educativas a um contingente maior de catadores, pelas próprias lideranças; intensificar o diálogo com o poder público; superar as barreiras institucionais, com o propósito de criar políticas públicas de resíduos com a inclusão dos catadores(as). / This study analyzes the collective capacity building activities of informal recyclers, conducted at the Metropolitan Region of Greater São Paulo, between 1997 and 2008, with the purpose of identifying elements to support the participatory creation of sustainable solutions to social and environmental solid waste problems in urban areas. These educational actions are embedded in a period of increasing dialogues and actions related to Environmental Education, focused on the social control of public and institutional policies for participatory environmental management. The analysis of the educational activities has required a survey focused on the historical context, the thinking and acting of Environmental Education; the life and working conditions of the recyclers; the social and environmental issues regarding solid waste and the potential and challenges of selective waste collection as an alternative within solidarity economy. The research analyses the educational activities related to the organization of the selective waste collection in the squatter settlement Pedra sobre Pedra, at the Southern periphery of São Paulo city; the mobilization of solid waste collection groups in the city, at the Fórum Recicla São Paulo, a social mobilization of recyclers; the Capacity Building for the first Selection Centers of the Programa de Coleta Seletiva Solidária de São Paulos implementaed in 2003; the strengthening of the recyclers and their dialogue with the public authorities, through the Participatory Sustainable Waste Management project. These educational activities are theoretically based upon multiple references and upon the comprehension of the commitment to building autonomous social actors towards a democratic society. The elements of emancipatory Environmental Education where identified in this research and, in the educative actions, they where elaborated through interactive methodologies with groups of recyclers. Therefore, we emphasize the advances generated by the capacity building activities, revealed in meetings and through the recyclers voices: change in their self-esteem; the self-value of their own activities, the strengthening of their identities, the assimilation of the processes lived throughout the capacity development and the increased capacity for collective planning of local actions. As a result of the assessment of this research, a need for future work of the leaders themselves to spread the educational actions to a larger contingent of recyclers has become clear, as well as a need to intensify the dialogue with the public authorities and to overcome the institutional hurdles with the purpose of creating inclusive solid waste public policies with organized recyclers.

The 21st century environmental crisis that humankind faces has resulted in a need to re-orientate ourselves towards environmental sustainability. Singular paradigmatic ways of knowing no longer deal with multiple interconnected realities and associated uncertainty, diversity and risk faced by humankind. Geography focusses on interactions between the ‘human’ and ‘natural’ world, and should play a leading role in Education for Sustainability (EfS). The multidimensional worldview of geographers together with their integrative skills, awareness of scale, place and space and holistic viewpoint positions the discispline in the forefront of sustainability related challenges. The extent of the contribution depends on the view of Geography and how it is transferred to graduates, during their undergraduate studies. In reality non-geographers view the discipline as suitable for EfS, with the Geography fraternity less enthusiastic. This thesis suggests that South African Geography (as is the case internationally) has limited success in making its instrumental value known through EfS. Using the integral perspective of epistemological pluralism, it is suggested that an obstacle is the fragmentation of undergraduate Geography between sub-fields and theoretical and practical/ analytical courses, with limited intra-discipline discourse. The identity of Geography appears to be locked into dualisms of society versus nature and theory versus technique. These dualisms create an obstacle for the reconfiguration in terms of mutual conceptualisation of society-nature interaction in a strong theoretical setting and with techniques in a supporting role. The multi-paradigmatic methodology used in this thesis includes an assessment of undergraduate curricula of 17 Departments of Geography at South African universities, a questionnaire on Geography and EfS sent to departments, focus groups at selected departments and interviews with a selection of South African geographers. Findings indicate that although sustainability features on the undergraduate level in all departments, it is not a cross-cutting theme. It is concluded that closer integration between the sub-fields and identities of Geography, regarding the diversity of Geography as an asset and the acceptance of multiple paradigms, is the only way through which Geography in South Africa will be able to strengthen its position in EfS, while ensuring a vibrant future for the discipline. / Geography / Ph. D. (Geography)

Este estudo analisa trabalhos de formação de catadores(as) de materiais recicláveis, realizados coletivamente, na Região Metropolitana da Grande São Paulo, entre 1997 e 2008, com a finalidade de identificar elementos para subsidiar a construção participativa de soluções sustentáveis para a problemática socioambiental de resíduos sólidos nas áreas urbanas. Essas ações educativas estão imbricadas num momento de disseminação de diálogos e ações de Educação Ambiental, voltados para o controle social das políticas públicas e institucionais para a gestão ambiental participativa. A análise dos trabalhos de formação exigiu o levantamento do contexto histórico, dos debates sobre o pensar e agir da Educação Ambiental; das condições de vida e trabalho dos catadores; da problemática socioambiental de resíduos sólidos e as potencialidades e desafios para a consolidação da coleta seletiva como alternativa de economia solidária. Foram foco de análise os trabalhos educativos relativos à organização da Coleta Seletiva no núcleo habitacional Pedra sobre Pedra, na Zona Sul de São Paulo; a mobilização de grupos de coleta na cidade, no Fórum Recicla São Paulo, movimento social de catadores; a Capacitação para implantação das primeiras Centrais de Triagem do Programa de Coleta Seletiva Solidária de São Paulo/2003; o fortalecimento de catadores e do diálogo com o poder público, no Projeto Coleta Seletiva Brasil Canadá. Essas ações educativas estão embasadas teoricamente na multirreferencialidade e no entendimento do compromisso com a construção de sujeitos autônomos para uma sociedade democrática. Os elementos de Educação Ambiental emancipatória foram identificados neste doutorado e, na ação educativa, foram trabalhados por meio de metodologias interativas no coletivo dos catadores. Assim, destacamos os avanços proporcionados pela formação, revelados nos encontros e nas vozes dos catadores: a autovalorização; a valorização do próprio trabalho, o fortalecimento da identidade, apropriação dos processos vividos e o planejamento coletivo de ações locais. Com a avaliação realizada neste doutorado, evidenciou-se a necessidade de trabalhos futuros para estender as ações educativas a um contingente maior de catadores, pelas próprias lideranças; intensificar o diálogo com o poder público; superar as barreiras institucionais, com o propósito de criar políticas públicas de resíduos com a inclusão dos catadores(as). / This study analyzes the collective capacity building activities of informal recyclers, conducted at the Metropolitan Region of Greater São Paulo, between 1997 and 2008, with the purpose of identifying elements to support the participatory creation of sustainable solutions to social and environmental solid waste problems in urban areas. These educational actions are embedded in a period of increasing dialogues and actions related to Environmental Education, focused on the social control of public and institutional policies for participatory environmental management. The analysis of the educational activities has required a survey focused on the historical context, the thinking and acting of Environmental Education; the life and working conditions of the recyclers; the social and environmental issues regarding solid waste and the potential and challenges of selective waste collection as an alternative within solidarity economy. The research analyses the educational activities related to the organization of the selective waste collection in the squatter settlement Pedra sobre Pedra, at the Southern periphery of São Paulo city; the mobilization of solid waste collection groups in the city, at the Fórum Recicla São Paulo, a social mobilization of recyclers; the Capacity Building for the first Selection Centers of the Programa de Coleta Seletiva Solidária de São Paulos implementaed in 2003; the strengthening of the recyclers and their dialogue with the public authorities, through the Participatory Sustainable Waste Management project. These educational activities are theoretically based upon multiple references and upon the comprehension of the commitment to building autonomous social actors towards a democratic society. The elements of emancipatory Environmental Education where identified in this research and, in the educative actions, they where elaborated through interactive methodologies with groups of recyclers. Therefore, we emphasize the advances generated by the capacity building activities, revealed in meetings and through the recyclers voices: change in their self-esteem; the self-value of their own activities, the strengthening of their identities, the assimilation of the processes lived throughout the capacity development and the increased capacity for collective planning of local actions. As a result of the assessment of this research, a need for future work of the leaders themselves to spread the educational actions to a larger contingent of recyclers has become clear, as well as a need to intensify the dialogue with the public authorities and to overcome the institutional hurdles with the purpose of creating inclusive solid waste public policies with organized recyclers.

<p>Imajući u vidu nizak nivo&nbsp; ekolo&scaron;ke&nbsp; svesti&nbsp;stanovni&scaron;tva, za predmet istraživanja&nbsp;eksplicitno &nbsp;je određeno proučavanje mogućnosti&nbsp;za pro&scaron;irivanje&nbsp; kurikuluma srednjo&scaron;kolskog&nbsp;obrazovanja&nbsp; ekohemijskim nastavnim&nbsp;sadržajima,&nbsp; kao i izrada modela za njihovu&nbsp;integraciju u nove kurikulume, u okviru reforme&nbsp;srednjo&scaron;kolskog obrazovanja koja je&nbsp; u toku u&nbsp;Republici Srbiji.&nbsp; Ekolo&scaron;ki i ekohemijski&nbsp;sadržaji u nastavnim planovima i programima u&nbsp;srednjem stručnom obrazovanju u Srbiji, prema&nbsp;važećim nastavnim planovima i programima,&nbsp;ograničeni su, i to u veoma uskom obimu, na&nbsp;nastavu op&scaron;tih predmeta (pre svega hemije i&nbsp;biologije) u &scaron;kolama u kojima ovi predmeti&nbsp;postoje u kurikulumu, kao i na predmet&nbsp;Ekologija&nbsp; u pojedinim profilima srednjeg&nbsp;stručnog obrazovanja. To znači da u mnogim&nbsp;srednjim stručnim &scaron;kolama učenici nemaju&nbsp;dodir sa ekolo&scaron;kim nastavnim sadržajima koji&nbsp;su neophodni svakom čoveku kako bi razvio&nbsp;ekolo&scaron;ku svest i svojim pona&scaron;anjem i stavovima&nbsp;o za&scaron;titi životne sredine omogućio održivi&nbsp;razvoj planete svojim aktivnostima u odabranoj&nbsp;profesiji, ali i u svakodnevnom životu.&nbsp;Imperativ uvođenja ekolo&scaron;kog principa u&nbsp;nastavu, u svim segmentima i na svim nivoima obrazovanja, nameće potrebu za pro&scaron;irivanjem kurikuluma hemije i stručnih predmeta svih profila u srednjem stručnom obrazovanju, u skladu sa potrebama buduće profesije učenika.</p> / <p>Given the low&nbsp; level of environmental&nbsp;awareness,&nbsp; the subject matter&nbsp; is explicitly&nbsp;determined by&nbsp; studying the possibility&nbsp; of&nbsp;expanding the&nbsp; curriculum&nbsp; of secondary&nbsp;education&nbsp; teaching&nbsp; eco-chemical&nbsp; facilities, and&nbsp;develop a model&nbsp; for their integration&nbsp; in the&nbsp; new&nbsp;curriculum,&nbsp; within the framework of&nbsp; the reform&nbsp;of secondary education&nbsp; which is&nbsp; in progress&nbsp; in&nbsp;the Republic of&nbsp; Serbia. Ecologically and&nbsp; eco-chemical&nbsp; facilities&nbsp; in&nbsp; the curricula&nbsp; of&nbsp; vocational&nbsp;education&nbsp; in Serbia,&nbsp; according to the current&nbsp;curricula, are limited,&nbsp; and&nbsp; that&nbsp; in a very&nbsp; narrow&nbsp;scope,&nbsp; the teaching of&nbsp; general subjects&nbsp;(primarily&nbsp; chemistry&nbsp; and biology)&nbsp; in schools&nbsp;where&nbsp; these subjects&nbsp; exist&nbsp; in the curriculum,&nbsp; as&nbsp;well as&nbsp; the&nbsp; subject of&nbsp; ecology&nbsp; in different&nbsp;profiles of secondary&nbsp; vocational education. This&nbsp;means&nbsp; that in many vocational schools students&nbsp;do not have&nbsp; contact&nbsp; with environmental&nbsp;educational&nbsp; facilities that&nbsp; are&nbsp; necessary for&nbsp;every&nbsp; man&nbsp; to develop&nbsp; environmental awareness&nbsp;and&nbsp; their behavior and&nbsp; attitudes towards&nbsp;environmental protection&nbsp; enable sustainable&nbsp;development of the &nbsp;planet with their activities in&nbsp;the&nbsp; chosen profession,&nbsp; but&nbsp; also in everyday life.&nbsp;Imperative&nbsp; to introduce&nbsp; ecological&nbsp; principles in teaching,&nbsp; in all areas&nbsp; and at all&nbsp; levels of education,&nbsp; the need&nbsp; arises&nbsp; to expand&nbsp; the curriculum&nbsp; of chemistry and vocational courses of all kinds&nbsp; of&nbsp; secondary vocational education, in&nbsp; accordance with &nbsp;the needs of&nbsp; future&nbsp; students of the profession.</p>

The theme of this diploma thesis is Practical use of the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague for Education of Lower Grades of Primary Schools. The main purpose is to chart current status of a theme of botanical garden in curricular documents, namely The Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education and School Educational Programmes of chosen elementary schools located in Prague 2. Further, the presence of this theme is explored in the sample of schoolbooks for the 4th and the 5th grades of elementary schools. There is a questionnaire survey realized among teachers of the 4th and the 5th grades in the schools listed above. The aim is to find out, how much the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague is used for practical education. The results are shown in charts and graphs. The readiness of this botanical garden for practical education of lower grades pupils is found out by an interview with its vice-director. The next part of thesis contains planning and realizing a lesson with the 5th grade pupils. The lesson demonstrates a possibility of more frequent practical education in the botanical garden. Afterwards, the possibilities of using this particular visit of the botanical garden are analysed in relation to Natural Science...

As ações educativas sobre sustentabilidade ambiental constituem uma ferramenta cujo intuito é aumentar a consciência das pessoas sobre os problemas ambientais e sobre suas consequências para a humanidade. Quando bem estruturadas e aplicadas, elas têm um papel importante na mudança dos hábitos das pessoas. Nesse sentido, as organizações podem contribuir aplicando-as a seus funcionários e a outros stakeholders. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar como as empresas da indústria de defensivos agrícolas e prestadoras de serviço ambiental desenvolvem seus sistemas de treinamento, desenvolvimento e educação (TD&E) relacionados à sustentabilidade ambiental. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, foi realizado um estudo de casos múltiplos em duas empresas. Uma indústria de defensivos agrícolas e uma empresa prestadora de serviços ambientais. Com esses estudos de caso, foi possível entender a interação do departamento de recursos humanos para essas ações de sustentabilidade ambiental, ver como a EA e a EDS são trabalhadas com os funcionários de diferentes níveis organizacionais. Foi possível também entender como as empresas realizam o levantamento de necessidade de treinamento (LNT), como elas planejam e como avaliam as ações educacionais para sustentabilidade ambiental. Como implicações práticas, é possível afirmar que sessões mais curtas (com até duas horas), combinação de técnicas de ensino e uso de estudo de caso ao final da ação educacional como forma de avaliação contribuem para despertar interesse dos aprendizes e fixar o conteúdo com mais facilidade. É importante oferecer ambiente e ferramentas adequados para a realização de ações educativas para sustentabilidade ambiental em ambiente externo (fora das salas de aula). / Educational actions on environmental sustainability are a tool whose aim is to increase the people\'s consciousness about the environment problems and their consequences for mankind. These actions, when well structured and applied, play an important role in changing people\'s habits. In this context, companies can contribute by applying such actions to their employees and other stakeholders. Therefore, the objective of the present work is to identify how crop protection industry and environmental service companies develop their TD&E systems for environmental sustainability. In order to achieve such objectives, a multiple-case study of two companies, one crop protection industry and other providing environmental services, was conducted. With these case studies, it was possible to understand the interaction between human resource department and environmental sustainability actions, including how environmental education (EE) and environmental sustainability education (ESE) are applied to employees at different organizational levels. It was also possible to know how companies perform their training need assessment and how they plan and evaluate educational actions for environmental sustainability. In terms of practical implications, one can state that shorter sessions (up to 2 hours long), combination of teaching techniques, and use of case study as a form of evaluation at the end of the education action contribute to trigger the learners\' interest and fix the content more easily. It is important to offer adequate milieu and tools for conducting education actions for environmental sustainability out of the class room.

After definition of used terms I inform about aims, methods and ideological solutions. The principal part of thesis is reflection how to pedagogically influence in the sphere of environmental education and edification. At the close of the thesis there is signed that sustainable development and its correlation between ecological, social, economic and ethic aspect has future for environmental education and edification.

As ações educativas sobre sustentabilidade ambiental constituem uma ferramenta cujo intuito é aumentar a consciência das pessoas sobre os problemas ambientais e sobre suas consequências para a humanidade. Quando bem estruturadas e aplicadas, elas têm um papel importante na mudança dos hábitos das pessoas. Nesse sentido, as organizações podem contribuir aplicando-as a seus funcionários e a outros stakeholders. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar como as empresas da indústria de defensivos agrícolas e prestadoras de serviço ambiental desenvolvem seus sistemas de treinamento, desenvolvimento e educação (TD&E) relacionados à sustentabilidade ambiental. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, foi realizado um estudo de casos múltiplos em duas empresas. Uma indústria de defensivos agrícolas e uma empresa prestadora de serviços ambientais. Com esses estudos de caso, foi possível entender a interação do departamento de recursos humanos para essas ações de sustentabilidade ambiental, ver como a EA e a EDS são trabalhadas com os funcionários de diferentes níveis organizacionais. Foi possível também entender como as empresas realizam o levantamento de necessidade de treinamento (LNT), como elas planejam e como avaliam as ações educacionais para sustentabilidade ambiental. Como implicações práticas, é possível afirmar que sessões mais curtas (com até duas horas), combinação de técnicas de ensino e uso de estudo de caso ao final da ação educacional como forma de avaliação contribuem para despertar interesse dos aprendizes e fixar o conteúdo com mais facilidade. É importante oferecer ambiente e ferramentas adequados para a realização de ações educativas para sustentabilidade ambiental em ambiente externo (fora das salas de aula). / Educational actions on environmental sustainability are a tool whose aim is to increase the people\'s consciousness about the environment problems and their consequences for mankind. These actions, when well structured and applied, play an important role in changing people\'s habits. In this context, companies can contribute by applying such actions to their employees and other stakeholders. Therefore, the objective of the present work is to identify how crop protection industry and environmental service companies develop their TD&E systems for environmental sustainability. In order to achieve such objectives, a multiple-case study of two companies, one crop protection industry and other providing environmental services, was conducted. With these case studies, it was possible to understand the interaction between human resource department and environmental sustainability actions, including how environmental education (EE) and environmental sustainability education (ESE) are applied to employees at different organizational levels. It was also possible to know how companies perform their training need assessment and how they plan and evaluate educational actions for environmental sustainability. In terms of practical implications, one can state that shorter sessions (up to 2 hours long), combination of teaching techniques, and use of case study as a form of evaluation at the end of the education action contribute to trigger the learners\' interest and fix the content more easily. It is important to offer adequate milieu and tools for conducting education actions for environmental sustainability out of the class room.