Pre-Service Teachers' Use of Images in Integrating Environmental Sustainability Lessons

• Authors: Debbie Muthersbaugh , Anne Kern
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Environmental sustainability is a topic widely discussed in the field of science education, yet, few entities have committed to developing environmental sustainability education standards. The Washington State Department of Education has created K-12 Integrated Environmental and Sustainability Learning Standards (IESLS, 2009), which align with current research and practices in environmental and sustainability education. This study focuses on the perceptions of secondary pre-service teachers about the use of images to teach environmental sustainability topics integrated in their content area. The research explores the question what secondary pre-service teachers' perceptions of sustainability and using images to teach environmental sustainability topics in their content area are. The participants were comprised of secondary pre-service teachers enrolled in an instructional methodology course from a small university in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Teaching environmental sustainability and integrating lessons using images had a noticeable impact on pre-service teachers' perceived future teaching practices. Participants also changed beliefs over the course of the study about using images to teach environmental sustainability topics.

Keywords

EN

environmental sustainability; environmental science education; integration; images; secondary pre-service teachers

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-79

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-07-13

Contributors

author

Debbie Muthersbaugh

• Walla Walla University, the United States of America

author

Anne Kern

• University of Idaho-Coeur d'Alene, the United States of America

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-012-0006-8