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A Qualitative Assessment of Community Learning Initiatives for Environmental Awareness and Behaviour Change: Applying UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Framework
This study uses qualitative research methods of text mining to elucidate the potential and prospects for community-based learning opportunities for raising environmental awareness and bringing about healthy behaviour change among university students and local residents. In particular, we focus on the importance of community-based learning in raising environmental awareness and inspiring action to support healthy living and harmony with nature. The three groups were triangulated using semi-structured questionnaires to model the ways in which education for sustainable development (ESD) can contribute to the promotion of environmental education in local communities. In order to collect in-depth data, the authors themselves were present at the study sites and collected textual data based on semi-structured questionnaires in a participatory observation framework, where they had a common experience to understand the observations. Analysis was carried out using NVivo12. The two community learning initiatives studied were in Okayama and Tokyo, which are leading ESD policy areas. The two case studies are both university student-led projects that aim to raise environmental awareness in local communities through environmentally conscious behaviour change and the creation of a foundation for healthy living. This study focuses on “youth” and “community” among the five priority areas proposed in the 2015 ESD report and discusses the potential and prospects for community learning initiatives and the triggering of the nudge effect on environmentally conscious behaviour change and health behaviours. The results of the textual analysis with triangulation show that, while policymakers and teachers and leaders driving the initiative acknowledge the importance of ESD in a comprehensive way, their attention is more focused on the design of specific projects and curricula. In contrast, university students engaged in ESD activities rated the social education facilities (local community centres, community learning centres) as “lively” and “motivating”. It was found that there are high expectations for “public living rooms”, which are important as a base for learning to promote healthy and sustainable communities and environmentally conscious behaviour change.
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School spaces for student wellbeing and learning : insights from research and practice
This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital, yet generally overlooked relationships between the learning environment and student learning and wellbeing, and reveals the potential of participatory, values-based design approaches to create learning spaces that respond to contemporary learners' needs. Focusing on three main themes it explores conceptual understandings of learning spaces and wellbeing; students' lived experience and needs of learning spaces; and the development of a new theory and its practical application to the design of learning spaces that enhance student wellbeing. It examines these complex and interwoven topics through various theoretical lenses and provides an extensive, current literature review that connects learning environment design and learner wellbeing in a wide range of educational settings from early years to secondary school. Offering transferable approaches and a new theoretical model of wellbeing as flourishing to support the design of innovative learning environments, this book is of interest to researchers, tertiary educators and students in the education and design fields, as well as school administrators and facility managers, teachers, architects and designers.
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Addressing Our Nation's Toxic School Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19
The commentary argues that we need to address the wide variance in school building quality under and after COVID-19. Evidence suggests that historical underinvestment in school facility capital and maintenance has created unhealthy school buildings across the nation. Federal funding and research is necessary to ensure that schools are healthy places for educators, families, and youth even after the pandemic ends.
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Bridging Research Silos: Improve Collaboration with a Planning Framework
The academic and research staff housed in the facility will approach the project from a usability framework, considering their immediate research and pedagogical needs, likely without recognition or understanding of the ownership cost to the institution or the impacts across non-academic functional areas. Applications Beyond Health Care: While translational research is often associated with health care, IDT applies its principles across various fields, including education, environmental science, urban planning, and technology development. Spanning Silos and Improving Interdisciplinary Outcomes The goals of ITD include: * Creating flexible and adaptive research spaces and design facilities that can be easily tailored to the needs of various interdisciplinary teams, with modular furniture, reconfigurable lab spaces, and shared equipment areas * Incorporating technology that facilitates working together in person and remotely, such as high-quality video conferencing and data visualization systems, shared software tools, and augmented and virtual reality environments for exploring data and models * Supporting virtual collaboration by developing robust digital infrastructure, including secure data-sharing platforms, project management tools, and technology-rich lab environments * Ensuring that technology solutions are accessible and user-friendly for researchers from all disciplines and possibly offering training and support to lower barriers to use ITD enhances group effort and communication between stakeholders from separate disciplines. Research by Kraut and Egido showed that by collocating research and learning spaces, proximity increased the frequency of interactions regardless of discipline (Figure 4).7 A significant benefit of ITD is its emphasis on efficiently using resources.
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Appropriateness of learning environments in preprimary educational institutions: the case of preschools in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia
This study aimed to examine the appropriateness of learning environments in preprimary institutions, specifically focusing on preschools in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia. To achieve this, a mixed-methods research approach was employed, guided by an adapted framework for assessing learning environments. Participants included preschool teachers and leaders who were selected through a comprehensive sampling technique. Data were collected using questionnaires and observations, and analyzed both quantitatively (using means, standard deviations, one-sample
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-tests) and qualitatively through a thematic analysis approach. The findings revealed several challenges related to the physical environments, facilities, and classroom conditions within the preschools. The study concludes that, despite some positive efforts, preschools in Bahir Dar city were struggling to provide preprimary education in environments that are unsuitable for children. Finally, the article offers recommendations aimed at improving the learning environments of these institutions.
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'The best guess for the future?' Teachers' adaptation to open and flexible learning environments in Finland
Finnish education has recently experienced reforms with respect to guidelines forming the curriculum framework for basic education and school architecture. Since 2016, all new schools incorporate open and flexible design, at least to some extent. The more open school design challenges the conventional organisation of space and pre-defined structures and interaction practices. This study investigates how teachers both adapt and are affected by new demands for pedagogy, team teaching and teacher-student relationships. Interview data of 21 teachers of six modern schools are reviewed through thematic analysis. The new school layouts provided some incongruence with the teachers' aims and their preferred practices. Although many teachers were dissatisfied with the new or remodelled space solution, they felt that their school had developed as a learning community, with improved collegiality, and good experiences of team teaching had increased. Shared vision, open discussion, commitment and enough time for preparation had helped in adaptation. Lacking arguments behind school transformation and the dismissal of ideas of school design hindered adaptation. This study suggests that teachers should have a greater voice in the school design process, and the needs of learners should be carefully considered, ensuring optimal physical and pedagogical context for effective and collaborative learning.
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The role of school ICT construction and teacher information literacy in reducing teacher burnout: Based on SEM and fsQCA
Abstract Understanding the factors related to teacher burnout can support school administrators and teachers in optimizing the direction of school development and reducing teacher burnout. This study investigated the impact of school information and communication technology (ICT) construction and teacher information literacy on teacher burnout and explored the combined effects of the above factors by using a structural equation model (SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Through the analysis of 7,979 primary and secondary school teachers, the study found that the construction of high-quality school hardware facilities, software facilities and advanced ICT-related policies can reduce teacher burnout and affirmed the intermediary role of teacher information literacy. Some development suggestions on the collaborative improvement in schools and teachers have been put forward to provide ideas for reducing teacher burnout in the intelligent era.
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