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  • 1
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    Global Environmental Change: Modifying Human Contributions Through Education (1998)
    Springer
    Journal of science education and technology 7 (1998), S. 297-309 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Global change ; education ; behavior change ; responsible environmental behavior
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1996) Science report concludes that evidence now available “points toward a discernible human influence on global climate” (p. 439). Reductions in emissions will require changes in human behavior. This study assessed whether gains in global environmental change knowledge would lead to changes in human behaviors that could be deemed environmentally responsible. The study assessed the impact on participant behavior of a two-and-one-half day National Informal Educators Workshop and Videoconference held November 14–16, 1994. The workshops were located in seven down-link sites around the continental U.S. and Hawaii. The program utilized a variety of pedagogical techniques during five hours of satellite programming with national expertise on global change topics (natural variability, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, ecosystem response, and population and resource distribution) and applications of that information with local experts in regional workshops. Participants implemented many personal and professional behavior changes after participation in this program. Six behavior change scales were created from assessment of survey responses (four coefficient alphas were above .7, one was .68, and one was .58). Personal behavior changes grouped into three categories: Use of Fewer Resources (acts of everyday life generally under volitional control), Purchasing Choices/Options (less frequent acts, not under total volitional control, with significant environmental effect over the lifetime of the decision, e.g., an automobile) and Increased Awareness and Discussion (indicating changes in “habits of mind”). The professional behavior changes also grouped into three categories: Curriculum Development (developing/revising curricula including new knowledge); Networking (with colleagues from the program); and Office Procedures (reflecting environmentally responsible behavior). The statistically significant behavior changes implemented correspond with increases in content knowledge, confidence, a developing national network, regional applications, and satisfaction with the program.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021815124260
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    Netcourses and netseminars: Current practice and new designs (1996)
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    Journal of science education and technology 5 (1996), S. 217-223 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Netcourses ; netseminars ; Internet ; education
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Netcourses—courses delivered primarily over digital networks—promise to provide learners with quality, low-cost learning opportunities anywhere and anytime. While having implications throughout education, adult professionals may be the first to make extensive use of netcourses. By increasing the quality and timeliness of teacher professional development while reducing its costs, netcourses could have a major impact on the quality of teaching. In order to understand the realities of this promise, we have reviewed in detail all netcourses for teachers in mathematics and science. As a result of this analysis, we have developed new designs for the effective use of this medium with mathematics and science teachers.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01575305
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    Lateral Thinking and Technology Education (1997)
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    Journal of science education and technology 6 (1997), S. 245-255 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Technology ; science ; education ; lateral thinking
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The emergence of lateral thinking in recent years is a natural reaction to the enormous increase of information a human being is “bombarded” with, in the post industrial revolution era. Vertical thinking, with its sequential and fixed-order rules, which has been the foundation of traditional education, is increasingly being complemented by lateral thinking which aims at freeing the mind from the imprisonment caused by already established concepts and patterns. Thus paving the way for restructuring thinking patterns and generating new ideas. An attempt is made to show the context of lateral thinking to recent educational psychology developments. Developing lateral thinking skills has already become a pedagogical challenge to many educators. An analysis of technology education and its relevance to lateral thinking is presented in this article. Prospects for utilizing technology education as a platform and a contextual domain for nurturing lateral thinking are discussed. The main notion is that technology education, which is characterized by reconstructive learning activities of designing, making, using and evaluating of matter, energy and information in real-life situations is an appropriate environment for developing complementary incorporation of vertical and lateral thinking. Initial findings of a case study implementing lateral thinking through technology education are encouraging.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022534310151
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    Teaching good communication/proposal-writing skills: Overcoming one deficit of our educational system (1992)
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    Journal of science education and technology 1 (1992), S. 211-219 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Communication skills ; education ; expository writing ; grant proposals ; writing for the reader
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Good communication skills require: (1) an understanding of one's audience and the subtle interactions between writer and reader, (2) organizational skills to methodically progress through the necessary stages of a project (e.g., writing a proposal), and (3) certain basic communication (writing/speaking) skills, i.e., a facility with the basic elements of transmitting information clearly. The task of writing a grant proposal in response to a specific set of instructions is used to illustrate the analysis and responses necessary to complete a major written communication project. The concept of focusing on—and writing for—the reader (in this case, the proposal reviewer) is emphasized. Although good communication skills affect life-styles, productivity, and economics in our society, the communication skills of the American pubic are sorely lacking—even among people with high levels of education—because students receive little training in these skills in the United States educational system. However, such skills can be taught to younger students as well as to adults.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00701364
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    Science, education, and republican values: Trends of faith in America: 1750–1830 (1993)
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    Journal of science education and technology 2 (1993), S. 521-540 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Science ; education ; nationalism
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The history of curriculum debate involving science in the United States has touched all levels and concepts of schooling. It has involved a wide spectrum of competing interests and ideas. It has helped guide the framing of concepts as complex and influential as those of progress, human nature, and the national welfare. It has been a stage on which many players have entered, spoken, left, and returned (not always in the guise of farce). Above all, it is itself something from which a great deal can be learned: for in large part any current situation stands at the apex of this long history and cannot in any sense be divorced from what it reveals about the larger place of science and learning in American consciousness. Eric Hobsbawm once wrote that “the progress of schools and universities measures that of nationalism,” and that education generally is the “most conscious champion” of the state. History reveals this to be an enormous oversimplification, woefully expedient, and particularly so in the case of science. Here, in fact, nationalism itself can be revealed as a collision of many conflicting interests, myths, visions, and hopes, all of which at some point took the scientific as legitimating dais. No committed history could be so reductive. It must rather open both inward and outward, toward the past and its continued momentum.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00695322
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    Mapware: Educational applications of geographic information systems (1992)
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    Journal of science education and technology 1 (1992), S. 35-48 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: GIS ; geographic information systems ; mapware ; student projects ; microcomputers ; education ; telecommunications
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract An emerging technology, geographic information systems, is analyzed in terms of its applicability to mathematics and science education. Examples of possible applications are given, a research agenda is sketched out, and needed characteristics of the software when applied to education are described.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00700242
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    Bringing Science to Life Through Community-Based Watershed Education (1998)
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    Journal of science education and technology 7 (1998), S. 15-23 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Community ; education ; environment ; inquiry ; watershed
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Four elements of successful student-scientist partnerships (SSPs) have been identified through experience in a wide variety of educational settings. SSPs should: use an inquiry-based approach to education; be built around authentic, community-based investigations; let students be scientists; and allow scientists to be educators. Each element is discussed and illuminated with examples from case studies of watershed education programs that are based on an interdisciplinary, action-oriented watershed education model developed by the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN).
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022528030956
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    Workstation-assisted education at MIT (1992)
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    Journal of science education and technology 1 (1992), S. 105-119 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: CAI ; distributed computing ; computers ; education
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract MIT launched a major new initiative called Project Athena in 1983 to improve the quality of education through the introduction of a high-quality computing infrastructure throughout the campus. Implementation of the Project Athena computing environment required eight years, cost about $100 million, and was sponsored by Digital Equipment and IBM in addition to MIT. The Athena computing environment is based almost entirely on workstations from these two vendors using the Unix operating system. Project Athena is now complete. The resulting computer system has been turned over to the campus computing organization for ongoing operation and maintenance. The computing environment available at MIT for education has been significantly improved. Students are graduating today that have never known life at MIT without the ubiquitous availability of high-quality computing. This article provides an overview of the initial objectives and strategies of Project Athena at MIT relative to its educational use. The specific strategies that MIT employed in the use of work-stations in educational are then described. These strategies are contrasted with other available strategies. Specific examples of the use of workstations are presented. An important element in current and future education delivery is multimedia. Athena in conjunction with the MIT Media Lab has one of the largest efforts in multimedia development of any of the universities, and MIT is using multimedia in education on a daily basis. A new laboratory, the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, has been established with a major focus on multimedia. Finally the lessons learned from Athena relative to its primary objective — that of improving education — are reviewed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00694834
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    An integrative and holistic engineering education (1995)
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    Journal of science education and technology 4 (1995), S. 191-198 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: Connections ; education ; engineering ; holistic, innovation ; integration
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The several reports and papers of the past decade suggesting paradigm shifts in engineering education are shown to reveal a common theme, to wit: engineering is an integrative process, and thus engineering education, particularly at the baccalaureate level, should be designed toward that end. Suggesting a change in intellectual culture, the roots of contemporary collegiate education in the United States are traced to their origin and attention is given to discussing the current emphasis on reductionism vis-à-vis integration or, said another way, a course-focused education compared to a more holistic approach in which process and knowledge are woven throughout the curriculum. A new construct for systemic change in baccalaureate engineering education is suggested in terms of a taxonomy of intellectual components connected holistically with a core focus on developing human potential, as opposed to the present system in which students are passed serially through course filters.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02211836
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    Information Arcology and Data Explorations: Scientific Content for Multiple Learning Styles and Environments (1998)
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    Journal of science education and technology 7 (1998), S. 235-247 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: World Wide Web ; education ; science data ; information architecture
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract The World Wide Web presents unprecedented challenges for educators and information providers. Educators are faced with an unprecedented amount of information and data providers are faced with unprecedented diversity of audience. In order to address these challenges, we must develop dynamic systems for structuring data to create information and for allowing users to incorporate that information into their own knowledge base. These systems must combine the classic discipline of Information Architecture with organic and interactive users, fusing Information Architecture and Interactive Systems to form a new discipline termed Information Arcology. We describe such a system built on a simple yet powerful content model that includes groups of pictures and descriptions. We then describe a number of presentations that can be derived from that model. These presentations can be used to support a wide variety of learning styles and environments. Functional examples are presented along with insights gained from using those examples in a Montessori classroom.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021892423951
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    Watershed Education for Sustainable Development (2000)
    Springer
    Journal of science education and technology 9 (2000), S. 183-197 
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    ISSN: 1573-1839
    Keywords: education ; watershed ; monitoring ; empowerment ; action research ; cross-cultural
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Technology
    Notes: Abstract Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN) is an international network that seeks to bring students, teachers, and communities in the world closer together through the bond of studying and improving our river systems. The network is an expanding global communication system that invites participants to analyze watershed usage, monitor the quality and quantity of river water, reflect on ways that land and water usage and cultural perceptions influence river systems, and present their findings and recommendations to appropriate governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The pedagogical model that GREEN has been working under is “Action Research and Community Problem Solving (ARCPS).” It is a process that enables students and teachers to participate more fully in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of educational activities aimed at resolving an issue that the learners have identified. Some of the cornerstones of the instructional approaches are watershed analysis, experiential learning, interdisciplinary orientation, integrated problem solving, action-taking, and the support of networks. GREEN encourages classrooms to consider a cross-cultural component to their watershed education program in an effort to further global citizenship by linking students, teachers, and community members from different regions of the world.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009430215477
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    Michael Faraday on the Learning of Science and Attitudes of Mind (1998)
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    Science & education 7 (1998), S. 203-211 
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    ISSN: 1573-1901
    Keywords: Faraday ; science ; education ; psychology ; attitude ; mental ; emotional ; children
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
    Notes: Abstract The paper makes use of Michael Faraday's ideas about learning, in particular his thoughts about attitudes to the unknowns of science and the development of an attitude which improves scientific decision-making. An invented scenario involving nursery school children demonstrates some attitudes displayed there. Discussion of the scenario and variation in possible outcomes suggests that Faraday's views are relevant to scientific learning in general. The main thesis of the paper is that it is central to learning in science to acknowledge that there is an inner struggle involved in facing unknowns, and that empathy with the fears and expectations of learners is an essential quality if genuinely scientific thought is to develop. It is suggested, following Faraday, that understanding our own feelings while we teach is a pre-requisite to enabling such empathy and that only then will we be in a position to evaluate accurately whether or not our pupils are thinking scientifically.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008622704937
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