Conference Resources
UNESCO
Report
"Education for Sustainability - From Rio to Johannesburg: Lession
learnt from a decade of commitment"
Global Educational Resources
Alliance
for Global Sustainability
This group is a collaboration of research teams from several top
universities around the world to study environmental problems on large-scales
and multidisciplinary levels.
Association of
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
This organization assists colleges and universities in making
sustainability an integral part of curriculum, research, operations and
outreach. ULSF is also the secretariat for signatories of the Talloires
Declaration (1990), which has been signed by more than 290
university presidents and chancellors around the world.
The
Earth Charter
Education
for a Sustainable Future
A site dedicated to educating people about
sustainability and its role in the future.
Education
Re-Affirmation for the 21st century (new ERA-21)
An initiative of MIO-ECSDE planned for during
the Johannesburg WSSD is the Educators' APPEAL calling for Education
Re-Affirmation for the 21st century (new ERA-21). The appeal as well as the form
for electronic signatures is available on the website
PROMOTING
EDUCATION, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND TRAINING
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND THE EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, speech given by Ryokichi Hirono, Professor Emeritus, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan
International
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Journal
Offers a free "E-book" entitled "Goals and Conditions for a
Sustainable World", a collection of papers by Professor Emeritus John
Cairns, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of
Biology.
Teaching
for a Sustainable World: International Edition
Griffith University and the Department of the Environment, Sport &
Territories, 1997
UNESCO: Belgrade Charter -- Defining and Guiding Environmental Activities
UNESCO:
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
This set of five modules presents a sequenced
introduction to the global realities, imperatives for sustainable development
and educational issues that form the rationale of Education for a Sustainable
Future.
1. Exploring global realities
2. Understanding sustainable development
3. A futures perspective in the curriculum
4. Reorienting education for a sustainable
future
5. Accepting the challenge
UNESCO
Thessaloniki Declaration
International Conference Environment and Society: Education and Public
Awareness for Sustainability (Thessaloniki, December 8-12,
1997)
UNESCO: World Conference on Higher Education Report, Paris July 1998
National Educational Resources
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) -- Info Brief "Moving into the Educational Mainstream"
Digital Library
for Earth Systems Education (DLESE)
DLESE is a grassroots, community-based effort involving teachers, students,
and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and
services to support Earth system science education, at all levels, in both
formal and informal settings. DLESE resources include electronic materials for
both teachers and learners such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets,
visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much
more. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, DLESE is being designed,
built, and governed by community members from around the country.
The DLESE Community Review System invites your reviews of the following DLESE educational resources, which are on the topics of: Mathematics, Physics, Technology, Chemistry, and Geochemistry.
MATH, PHYSICS, TECHNOLOGY
Remote Sensing Using Satellites
To see resource: http://www.comet.ucar.edu/nsflab/index.htm
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-000-036
Spatial Consensus-building Through Access to Web-based GIS: An Online Planning
Tool For Leipzig
To see resource: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/ucgis/testproc/baxmann/baxmann.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-000-302
Carolina Coastal Science
To see resource: http://www.ncsu.edu/coast/index.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-000-437
Can You Win A Jellybean Contest?
To see resource: http://geosun.sjsu.edu/alert/products/jellybean.pdf
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-242
The Inclusive Classroom: Mathematics and
Science Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
To see resource: http://www.nwrel.org/msec/book7.pdf
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-399
Pieces of Science: Apollo 10
To see resource: http://www.fi.edu/pieces/cych/apollo%2010/index.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-535
Musical Plates: A Study of Earthquakes and
Plate Tectonics
To see resource: http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/musicalplates/index.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-638
CHEMISTRY/GEOCHEMISTRY
Water Structure and Behavior
To see resource: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/index.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-000-495
The Origin of Epithermal Gold
To see resource: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8361/1998/berry/gold1.html
To review resource: http://crs.dlese.org/submit/?id=DLESE-000-000-001-123
Education
for Sustainability: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability Through Higher
Education
Article by: Anthony Cortese, President, Second Nature; William
McDonough, Chairman, Second Nature Board of Directors
Environmental
Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) Bulletin
An update of activities for advancing education
and environmental literacy
Environmental
Literacy Council
Guide entitled Environmental
Connections: A Teacher's Guide to Environmental Studies.
It is a valuable resource for all educators who include environmental topics
in their curriculum. The guide presents a basic introduction to environmental
issues, summarizes current scientific research, and provides extensive
suggestions for books, articles, labs, data, and other information, including
how to find tools such as GIS software and mapping data online.
Guiding
Principles in Sustainable Design
Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design is
intended to direct park management philosophy. Its goal is to provide a basis
for achieving sustainability in facility planning and design, emphasize the
importance of biodiversity, and encourage responsible decisions.
Sustainable development in this document refers only
to park and ecotourism areas. When sustainable development and ecotourism are
merged, they offer an opportunity for affecting visitor perceptions of the
natural and cultural world. Ecotourism offers an unparalleled opportunity for
more conversation-oriented values. A merger of ecotourism and sustainability
would clearly distinguish sustainable development from traditional tourist
development.
ICSU Series on Science for Sustainable
Development
Report 5: Science
Education and Capacity Building
Island
Press Consortium on Environmental Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
This report is the product of a January 1999
Symposium examining the core curricula and competencies of the academic
environmental programs of 75 colleges and universities across the country.
The structural characteristics and educational materials of environmental
programs are also addressed, with an emphasis on improving the coherence and
strength of undergraduate environmental education.
Learn
and Serve America -- Environmental
Education
These Learn and Serve America grantees, listed on the Corporation for National
and Community Service website and the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
website, demonstrate how environmental education can be successfully integrated
into service-learning programs. The programs marked with asterisks have been
named National Service-Learning Leader Schools for 2002.
Libraries
Build Sustainable Communities Project
American Library Association
MacGregor, J., (2001), Education for a Sustainable Future: A Paradigm of
Hope for the 21st Century, Wheeler, K., ed., Kluwer Academic, New York, N.Y.,
pp. 199-214.
National
Science Resources Center
The National Science Resources Center (NSRC) is
operated by the National
Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, Institute
of Medicine, and the Smithsonian
Institution to improve the
teaching of science in the nation's schools. The NSRC collects and disseminates
information about exemplary teaching resources, develops and disseminates
curriculum materials, and sponsors outreach
activities, specifically in the areas of
leadership development and technical assistance, to help school districts
develop and sustain hands-on science programs.
National Environmental Education Act
National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND -- President Bush's Remarks on one year anniversary of legislation
Orr, D., (1992), Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.
Prior
Conferences and Reports --
Education for Sustainability
Significant
Events and Declarations
Second
Nature: Education for Sustainability
Second Nature works with leaders
in higher education towards the goal of developing a far-reaching web of
like-minded individuals and institutions of higher education. Their work is
developed around a clear and unique approach of allowing individuals to best use
available resources to "ask the right questions" and pursue answers by
learning from the work of, and collaborating with, others. Many of their most
enduring legacies can be seen in the following concepts and achievements:
Advocacy & Outreach, Website, Workshops, and Networks.
Sustainability
Education Project
The Sustainability Education Project was formed
in 1996 to help bring human population growth, economic development and natural
resource consumption into balance with the limits of nature for the benefit of
current and future generations.
U.S.
Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education
Chapter by: Wynn Calder, Associate
Director, University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF); Richard M.
Clugston,
Executive Director, ULSF
State Educational Resources
Closing
the Achievement Gap
California
Student Assessment Project
Studies by the State Education and Environment
Roundtable, which works in partnership with 16 state departments of education
and the Council of Chief State School Officers, that look at the impact of
environment-based education on improving academic and behavioral performance in
students of K-12 schools at all grade levels
New
Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
The mission of NJHEPS is to be an agent of
transformation so that New Jersey campuses might become models and messengers of
sustainability in our society and the world. The Sustainable Campus Initiative is
a comprehensive, Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) to change curriculum, research,
campus facility operations and community outreach that focuses initially on
reducing campus impact on global climate change.
Montana
State University, Teaching Biocomplexity in the Geosciences
Recognizing that Biocomplexity in the
Environment is an emerging theme of interest to many geoscientists, Montana
State is convening a workshop, entitled "Teaching Biocomplexity in the
Geosciences". The workshop is intended to provide the first steps towards
addressing the questions of "where" and "how" we are
teaching biocomplexity in the geoscience undergraduate curriculum. From
instructional modules in introductory physical geology/geography or Earth system
science courses to upper division courses or seminars, there is an increasing
interest in integrating new advances in biocomplexity in the geoscience
curriculum.
Additional Resources
Environment, Development & Conflict - NEWS
Hubbard
Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES)
Educational Resources
What
is Forestry? Connecting Communities
The University of Alaska has
developed a project to promote wonderment and connect people to a greater
appreciation of the forest and its cultural connections with communities
Worldwatch
Institute
A non profit public policy research organization
dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global
problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its
environmental support systems has released a new study entitled The
Anatomy of Resource wars. The study reveals the link between
consumer demand and third world resource wars.
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