Kyburz-Graber, Regula

Hart, Paul

Posch, Peter

Robottom, Ian

Reflective Practice in Teacher Education – Learning from Case Studies of Environmental Education.

Bern

New York

2006

9783039108688

3039108689

0820480460

9780820480466

47188

49214

49215

53766

53767

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This book is focused on ten action research and evaluative case studies in environmental education carried out by teacher educators and teachers. The case studies range across five European countries: Austria, Hungary, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. They are followed by cross-case comparisons which explore issues emerging from the documented reflective practice: aims of environmental education in the educational policy context of the countries, their relationship to the disciplines and the traditional knowledge transmission position, the role of action research approaches for innovation and reflection, and institutional conditions of collaboration in teacher education.
This international case study project is research based in adopting professional development approaches that are informed by action research principles. It represents examples of innovation that challenge established practice in schools and teacher education institutions. It provides study material for all who attempt to describe, change and improve their own education practices and who want to adopt an action research approach to professional or program development.

Foreword
John Elliott

Introduction
1 Approaching Reflective Practice in Environmental Education
2 Respecting Teachers' Ways of Knowing and Learning
3 Introducing Ten Case Studies of Environmental Education

Ten Case studies
4 Implementing Cross-Cumcular Themes
Reka Bereczky, Hungary

5 Project i Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development in Upper Secondary Schools
Hugo Caviola and Regula Kyburz-Graber, Switzerland

6 Sustainable Development in Focus - A Ten-Week Coui in Teacher Training
Anders Claesson and Maria Pettersson, Sweden

7 Interdisciplinary Environmental Education within the Training of Teachers for Biology and Physics Development and Evaluation of a Practical Course at the University of Vienna
Dons Elster, Austria

8 Many-Sided Evaluation through Action Research and Environmental Education in the Practice of Teacher Education
Maria Fuzne Koszo, Hungary