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An Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	An Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum./
作者:	Michel, Jessica Ostrow.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	316 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-09A.
標題:	Environmental education. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13805642
ISBN:	9780438969292

An Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum.
Michel, Jessica Ostrow.

An Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Sustainability across the Higher Education Curriculum. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 316 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Although the majority of scientists agree that we are facing unprecedented climate crises, higher education's engagement with environmental and sustainability problems is lacking. While the role of human behavior on climate change has been well established by science, these insights have yet to be adequately applied by citizens, thus exacerbating the consequent economic and social problems (like inequity and poverty). In response to the imminent danger of climate change, calls have come for citizens to be mindful of their actions to reverse the deteriorating trajectory of environmental and sustainability decline. In particular, policymakers have deemed higher education classrooms a promising site for equipping future generations of citizens to engage with sustainability. Formal teaching and learning surrounding sustainability-related subject matter, or Education for Sustainability (EfS), is the process of developing students' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors toward sustainability. However, EfS is not being incorporated into the higher education curriculum with either the quantity or quality necessary to steer society toward social change. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation study was to explore the amount of, and the effectiveness of, EfS in an institution of higher education, and to analyze whether EfS was related to students' sustainability learning outcomes. Data collection took place at Michigan State University, a public, large-size, four-year institution. Students were surveyed at both the beginning and end of the fall 2017 semester to measure changes over one academic semester. Guided by the frameworks of opportunity to learn, cognitively responsive teaching, teaching for sustainability, and transformative sustainability learning outcomes, data were analyzed with logistic and ordinary least squares regression, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results found that approximately two-thirds of participants reported that they had the opportunity to learn about sustainability. On average, neither cognitively responsive teaching, nor teaching for sustainability, pedagogical approaches were employed to teach sustainability. Interestingly, though, when instructors surfaced students' prior knowledge about sustainability while teaching the subject, students' sustainability behaviors increased over the course of the semester. As such, this study illustrated the importance of the pedagogical technique of utilizing students' prior knowledge when teaching them about sustainability in higher education.

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Environmental education.

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