Using Environment-Based Education to Advance Learning Skills and Character Development

Smith-Sebasto, N. J. (1993).
Career Development and Opportunities for Students Who Study
Environmental Education. Journal of Environmental Education
, 24(2), 35-8.
Examples of
opportunities in environmentally related careers.
U. S. Department of Education. (1999). Hawley Environmental Elementary School,
Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, WI. In:
Hope for Urban Education:A Study of Nine
High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Elementary Schools.
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of
Education. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/urbanhope/title.html.
Describes a transformation in attitudes and achievement that occur red at Hawley Elementary.
Attributes some of the changes to the EE curriculum and the single-minded focus the faculty
took toward raising student achievement.
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VanFossen, P. J. (1999).
The National Voluntary Content Standards in Economics
.
Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed428031.html.
Contends that students need an economics-specific course to fully comprehend how the
e c o n o my wo r k s , and that infusing economics into the curriculum may not be as educationally
useful as studying economics directly.
Volk, T. and B. McBeth. (1998).
Environmental Literacy in the United States
. Rock Spring,
GA: North American Association for Environmental Education.
Explores environmental literacy in the United States and summarizes the key thinking in the
field. Suggests that community investigations, citizenship participation, and environmental
studies courses are the most effective methods for achieving the desired state of e nv i ro n m e n t a l
literacy in the U.S.