Browsing by Supervisor "Eames, Chris W."
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Secondary School Students' Conceptions of Sustainability
(University of Waikato, 2014)Sustainability is a word that is frequently used and often without the understanding that it warrants. An understanding of sustainability is vital today as people need to adopt strategies to cope with issues caused by ... -
Stronger together: Holistic learning through Education for Sustainability
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Students in New Zealand secondary schools are more stressed and anxious about assessments than any other nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). There is also low engagement and enjoyment ... -
Teachers’ perceptions of professional learning through social media in environmental education
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Increasingly rapid consumption of natural resources and the production of wastes and their impacts on ecosystems have become unsustainable practices due to the increase in population, technological development and economic ... -
The ecology of community environmental groups: Integrating restoration, partnerships and citizen science
(University of Waikato, 2016)New Zealand is facing a biodiversity crisis as forest and wetland habitat loss continue, and the quality of freshwater declines. But in recent years, a grassroots, nationwide network of community environmental groups has ... -
The EOTC milieu as a setting for teaching and learning experiences for five-year-old students in Technology Education
(University of Waikato, 2015)Technology Education has been a compulsory subject in the New Zealand primary school curriculum since 1999. Expert knowledge and practice in technology is important in the development of students’ technological knowledge. ... -
The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
(University of Waikato, 2014)An increasing recognition of the impact of human activity on the natural environment has oriented attention to the role of education for sustainability (EfS) as a means to create more ecologically literate and sustainable ... -
Toward ecological literacy: A permaculture approach to junior secondary science
(University of Waikato, 2012)Environmental, economic, and social trends suggest the need for more sustainable ways of thinking and patterns of behavior. Such a shift would require humanity to function at high levels of ecological literacy, which relies ... -
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Sustainable Resource Management in Papua New Guinea: The Role of Education and Implications for Policy
(University of Waikato, 2016)Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) has been argued to have a significant role as a strategy for sustainable resource management. TEK in this context refers to all aspects of indigenous knowledge and practice related ... -
Zero Waste Education: An evaluation of an environmental education programme
(University of Waikato, 2014)The Ministry of Education's Guidelines for Environmental Education in New Zealand Schools (1999) names five aims of what environmental education should achieve in New Zealand. These aims are for students to develop: ...
