Browsing by Subject "environmental education"
Now showing items 1-7 of 7
-
Aligning Elementary School Garden Curricula to Education Standards
(2015-04-24)Garden education programs have the academic documentation to prove that they are a creative, viable, and successful way to enhance learning. However, a key limitation to using gardens for learning is the lack of garden learning ... -
Description and Evaluation of an Environmental Education Program in Madagascar
(2012-04-27)The Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is a founding member of the Madagascar Fauna Group (MFG), a consortium of zoos and botanical gardens that promotes biodiversity conservation in Madagascar. The MFG’s in-country programs include ... -
Energy Education in Wake County Public Schools: A Case Study of Leesville Elementary School
(2012-04-17)The environmental challenges we face today will continue to become more complex and each individual will be called upon to make critical decisions that will affect the environment. These decisions must be made ... -
Evaluating and comparing in-person and virtual experiential learning programs for improving STEM career readiness of students from underrepresented communities
(2021-04-19)The demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers in the U.S. has grown 24% in the last decade, but only 16% of STEM workers come from Hispanic and African American populations. Because of this ... -
Investigating Best Practices of Conservation Education for the African Wildlife Foundation
(2014-04-17)Effective conservation education has the ability to improve educational opportunities and expand environmental support in places where it is implemented. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) was founded in 1961 to promote ... -
The Role of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Environmental Identity Development through Duke Undergraduate Students’ Narrative
(2019-05-06)Recent work in environmental psychology and environmental education emphasizes environmental identity as important in predicting a broad array of environmental behaviors. However, there are gaps in our understanding of how ... -
The Synergy of the Commons: Learning and Collective Action in One Case Study Community
(2007-12-13)Formation of voluntary collective action provides a synergy whereby communities can accomplish environmental management improvement. To study this formative process, I asked four research questions:. How does group learning ...
