We discuss the special adaptations that environmental and sustainability education programs need to incorporate if they are to be successful in today's resource depleted urban schools.
Carbon offsets "address the inherent dilemma of our programs being all about sustainability, but also having students fly around the world," said Daniel Greenberg, executive director of Living Routes, a study-abroad company that runs sustainability education programs in eco-villages around the world and started its own carbon offset program last year.
As the course will be Internet-based, it will mesh well with and can serve as the introductory course in the sustainability curriculum of Ball State University Land Design Institute's international network of Sustainability Consortia, and can be used in sustainability education programs within the context of other international partnerships.
The use of such projects dealing with sustainability issues both locally and globally is detailed with potential application to similar programs as part of a sustainability education curriculum.
Information about the degree to which the intervention was conducted as planned (fidelity), whether the specific components of the intervention were delivered (dose), and the acceptability and sustainability of the education program, was obtained from focus groups with pupils, interviews with teachers and HPA staff, and direct observation of intervention delivery.
Other interests include research on and through design, systems for supporting social capital and distributed intelligence (especially for educational reform), the role of informatics and digital libraries in education, the psychology of computer programming, sustainability education, and science and engineering education.
In January 2014, he enrolled in a 10-week executive education program in sustainability leadership at Cambridge University.
Involving the community in the assessment, planning, and administration processes promotes ownership and sustainability of health education programs and is likely to improve intended outcomes [20].
Many sustainability-focused continuing education programs offer certificates to students completing a certain number of courses.
That is why sustainability education should include a partial 're-education' and 're-programming' of students.
