Collaborative knowledge building to promote in-service teacher training in environmental education
| Autor: | Lea Houtsonen, Mauri Åhlberg, Taina Kaivola, Arja Kaasinen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Service (systems architecture)
Knowledge management computer.software_genre Field (computer science) Environmental adult education Education 0502 economics and business Sociology business.industry 4. Education Communication 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050301 education Teacher education Computer Science Applications Environmental studies Environmental education 13. Climate action Virtual machine Engineering ethics business 0503 education computer 050203 business & management Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education. 10:227-240 |
| ISSN: | 0962-029X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14759390100200113 |
| Popis: | Environmental education (EE) is a problematic field in teacher education for many reasons. First, there is no consensus about its central concepts. Second, environmental education emerged as a response to environmental problems. Environmental educators do not agree on what are real environmental problems and what are exaggerated fears. For many educators, global warming is a serious environmental problem, but for those who view it in a geological perspective of long-term climatic change, it is not such a problem. When teachers are provided with the possibility of sharing problems of EE and building knowledge collaboratively with university experts, what do they do? What kind of problems do teachers regard as important? What kinds of problems do the university experts regard as important? These questions were investigated through the use of a database program called Knowledge Forum®. Knowledge Forum®is a shared virtual environment for collaborative knowledge building. This article analyses the use... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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