Green Education in a University Classroom: Benefits and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.W.G.N.M. Abeyrathna
Keyword(s):  
Green Education

Applied Situated Learning Theory to Investigate Effect of Global Warming Awareness Education in College - Quantitative Case Study with Experimental Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2490-2495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Ya Chang ◽  
Sue Ling Lai
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Green Education ◽  
Quantitative Case Study ◽  
Education Courses

Targeting at students randomly selected across all departments and all years at one university located in northern Taiwan, this research based on hierarchical regression analysis aims to investigate whether or not global warming awareness education exerts a positive effect on research participants’ energy-saving cognition and attitude. the results indicate that the 8 hypotheses proposed are all supported. Firstly, green education courses and global warming awareness videos have significantly positive impact on participants’ cognition and attitude as compare to their peers who did not take the courses or view the videos. Secondly, the participants’ scientific literacy positively influences their energy-saving cognition, which in turn positively impacts on energy-saving attitude. Furthermore, energy-saving cognition plays a completely intermediate role between scientific literacy and energy-saving attitude. Results mentioned conclude the contributions of this research.

scholarly journals Corporate Practices of Green Human Resources Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Ardeshir Bazrkar ◽  
◽  
Ali Moshiripour ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Green Education ◽  
Education And Development

Green education and development has a great impact upon improving the environmental performance of companies. Using the example of Iranian small and medium-sized oil and gas enterprises, the article evaluates the practices’ effect on environmental performance. The survey covered 386 employees from 30 companies. The most common measures of green human resources management were analyzed. All these practices have a positive and significant effect on the environmental performance of companies. The action of green education and development was introduced as the most effective measure. The results also demonstrated that four practices of green human resources management have a positive and significant impact upon performance due to environmental knowledge. Companies can use the findings of this research in implementing the green human resources management practices and continuous improvement of the environmental performance.

Environmentalism as Social Purpose in Higher Education: A Green Education Agenda

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Education Agenda ◽  
Green Education

AbstractThis paper considers some recent ideas about tertiary environmental education and about environmentalism as an emerging social purpose of universities. It shows that total reliance on education about the environment results in unacceptable views of the environment, environmental education and environmental problems'. The paper considers approaches to teaching, arguing for one which assumes that learners construct their own concepts of the environment It distinguishes between current discipline-based teaching in universities and the more holistic Green Education. The paper concludes with a list of characteristics of Green Education which follow from the arguments presented.

scholarly journals A WiMAX-ZigBee Energy Management System for Green Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (04) ◽  
pp. 338-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoi Yan Tung ◽  
Kim Fung Tsang ◽  
Ka Lum Lam ◽  
Hoi Ching Tung ◽  
Rong Jian Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Energy Management System ◽  
Green Education
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