A Student'S Perspective: The Benefits Of Non-Traditional Methods Of Environmental Education On Environmental Policy

2008 ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Lia Stelljes ◽  
Susan Allen-Gil
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Traditional Methods

Reducing Pessimism's Sway in The Environmental Ethics Classroom

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 213-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
William James ◽  
General State ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of The Environment

AbstractIncreased awareness of the breadth and depth of existing environmental challenges is part of an environmental education. One effect of this increased awareness that can manifest itself in the environmental ethics classroom is pessimism. I outline two varieties of pessimism that have a tendency to hold sway in the environmental ethics classroom: 1) pessimism about the general state of the environment; and, 2) pessimism about being able to do anything about the general state of the environment. After outlining a few of the potential educational and vocational consequences of allowing pessimism to take root, I offer a pedagogical method for reducing the sway of pessimism in the classroom. I argue that William James' and John Dewey's writings on the subject of meliorism offer a framework that, when combined with some of the insights of incrementalism theory in environmental policy, can not only help students to reduce the sway of pessimism in the classroom, but also in their chosen career paths by, among other things, highlighting the "possibility of possibility".

Public participation in environmental policy: considering scientific, counter-scientific and non-scientific contributions

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Eden
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
General Public ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lay Involvement

Environmental policy depends for its success on public participation. However, the scientific construction of environmental issues often means that such participation in policy-making is difficult when the public is not considered scientifically `expert'. Even if the notion of `expertise' is broadened to deal with this problem, this does not ensure truly `public'—i.e. lay—involvement, because lay ideas are still not included but are discounted as `non-scientific'. Further, emphasis on the scientific and environmental education of the general public will not guarantee policy implementation by individuals. Therefore, if we wish to design environmental policy that can be successfully implemented, we must consider other ways in which people relate to their environments as well as through scientific mediation—ways in which people `understand' their environments through culture, morality and social interaction—and build these into environmental policy.

scholarly journals Education of the next generation of managers in context of green economy

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Jana Chovancova ◽  
Helena Harausová
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Green Jobs

This paper deals with the issue of education for sustainable development of the generation of future managers in the context of the green economy. The paper analyses the need for environmental education of graduates in theoretical way who are expected to act as executives and in positions which are defined as Green Enhanced Skills Occupations or shortly Green Jobs and who should be able to apply the tools of environmental protection in a business sector, municipalities or third sector. The essential part of the article presents the partial results of the research, which was focused on finding whether students of economic universities are aware of issue of sustainable development and environmental policy tools, which can help the implementation of green economy in the practice and whether this issue is taught at universities. At the end of the article authors point out the important role of universities in preparing the future managers to work in the green economy.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN RURAL AREAS - A REAL SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Dimension

Sustainable development represents the future for Romanian rural areas anda viable solution to solve the environmental problems. This concept can beput into practice through the interaction between economic, sociocultural,environmental and political-institutional dimension. In this interaction,an important role has the ecological education of citizens from rural areasand their involvement in environmental policy decisions. So, a low level ofecological education in rural areas leads to a permanent degradation ofenvironmental factors. In this research, we showed some negativeenvironmental practices related to the inhabitants of rural areas.Citizen’s education in environmental spirit should promote the principlesof prevention, conservationand recycling.

scholarly journals Education and Training of Future Managers for Sustainable Development in the V4 Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Helena Harausová ◽  
Jana Chovancová
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Business Practice ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
And Training

Impact of companies and their activities on the environment has become a subject of growing interest since the late 80s of the last century, especially in the western economies. The growing interest in the implementation of environmentally friendly practices in business practice directly correlates with the need for education and training of future managers to sustainable development. The presented paper analyses the need for environmental education of graduates who are expected to act as executives and in positions which are defined as Green enhanced skills occupations or shortly Green jobs and who should be able to apply the tools of environmental policy in a business sector, municipalities or third sector. The essential part of the paper presents partial results of the survey, conducted among students of business schools, with the aim to determine the level of awareness about selected voluntary instrument of environmental policy as well as their perception of the need for environmental education . The article also contains proposals for a system of education for sustainable development in business schools.

One Size Fits All?

Methodology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel C. Voelkle ◽  
Patrick E. McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Type I Error ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Type I ◽  
Finite Sample ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Repeated Measures Anova ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Latent Curve

The use of latent curve models (LCMs) has increased almost exponentially during the last decade. Oftentimes, researchers regard LCM as a “new” method to analyze change with little attention paid to the fact that the technique was originally introduced as an “alternative to standard repeated measures ANOVA and first-order auto-regressive methods” (Meredith & Tisak, 1990, p. 107). In the first part of the paper, this close relationship is reviewed, and it is demonstrated how “traditional” methods, such as the repeated measures ANOVA, and MANOVA, can be formulated as LCMs. Given that latent curve modeling is essentially a large-sample technique, compared to “traditional” finite-sample approaches, the second part of the paper addresses the question to what degree the more flexible LCMs can actually replace some of the older tests by means of a Monte-Carlo simulation. In addition, a structural equation modeling alternative to Mauchly’s (1940) test of sphericity is explored. Although “traditional” methods may be expressed as special cases of more general LCMs, we found the equivalence holds only asymptotically. For practical purposes, however, no approach always outperformed the other alternatives in terms of power and type I error, so the best method to be used depends on the situation. We provide detailed recommendations of when to use which method.

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