Education and the environment : creating standards-based programs in schools and districts / Gerald A. Lieberman

By: Lieberman, Gerald A [author]Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, c2013Description: xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9781612506296Subject(s): EDUCATION EXPERIMENTAL METHODS | ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONLOC classification: LB 1140.4 .L54 2013
Contents:
Part One. Introducing environment-based education -- Chapter 1. Why the environment belongs in today's classrooms -- Chapter 2. Standards and the making of EBE -- Chapter 3. The benefits of EBE -- Chapter 4. Implementing EBE in a school, district, or state --Part Two. Creating and implementing an EBE program -- Chapter 5. Planning for success -- Chapter 6. Choosing an environmental context -- Chapter 7. Connecting standards to an environmental context -- Chapter 8. EBE instructional materials and resources -- Chapter 9. Student assessment and program evaluation.
Summary: Throughout most of human history people have lived in direct contact with nature, growing their own food, raising or killing animals to eat, using trees and stone to build homes, and using water for irrigation, household purposes, and transportation. Since the beginning of time, and long before the existence of formal systems of education, the most important thing humans taught their children was how to survive by exploiting nature's resources.
Item type: Books
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books LRC - Graduate Studies
National University - Manila
Gen. Ed - CEAS General Circulation GC LB 1140.4 .L54 2013 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011227

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Introducing environment-based education -- Chapter 1. Why the environment belongs in today's classrooms -- Chapter 2. Standards and the making of EBE -- Chapter 3. The benefits of EBE -- Chapter 4. Implementing EBE in a school, district, or state --Part Two. Creating and implementing an EBE program -- Chapter 5. Planning for success -- Chapter 6. Choosing an environmental context -- Chapter 7. Connecting standards to an environmental context -- Chapter 8. EBE instructional materials and resources -- Chapter 9. Student assessment and program evaluation.

Throughout most of human history people have lived in direct contact with nature, growing their own food, raising or killing animals to eat, using trees and stone to build homes, and using water for irrigation, household purposes, and transportation. Since the beginning of time, and long before the existence of formal systems of education, the most important thing humans taught their children was how to survive by exploiting nature's resources.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2021 NU LRC. All rights reserved.Privacy Policy I Powered by: KOHA