Note continued: Exploring Environmental Education Through Ecofeminism: Narratives of Embodiment of Science / Sherry E. Nichols -- Value of Nonformal Environmental Education-Based Professional Development in Preservice Science Teacher Preparation / Alec M. Bodzin -- Using Environmental Education Project Curricula with Elementary Preservice Teachers / Donna Rainboth -- Situated Learning in Environmental Education: Using Geospatial Technologies with Preservice Secondary Teachers / Diane C. Whitaker -- Using Podcasting to Address Nature-Deficit Disorder / Starlin Weaver -- Integrating Web-based Activities and Site-based Experiences to Investigate Environmental Issues / Alec M. Bodzin
Summary
In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how individual decisions affect the environment at local to global scales. Thus it is of fundamental importance to ensure that higher quality education about these ecological issues raises the environmental literacy of the general public. In order to achieve this, teachers need to be trained as well as classroom practice enhanced. This volume focuses on the integration of environmental education into science teacher educati
