Investigating the the relationship between whole-school approaches to education for sustainability and student learning.

Funding Year: 2006
Type: 2 years
Organisation: University of Waikato

Research Leader

Dr Chris Eames

Research Team

Miles Barker, Faye Wilson-Hill, Barry Law and Heidi Mardon.

Partnerships

National Education for Sustainability school advisers, who are in turn partnered with specified staff at each case study school. There was also an overarching partnership between the whole team and the Enviroschool Foundation.

 Focus of Research

The project aims to build on previous work in action competence and to design a valid and reliable framework for investigating this. It also aims to understand the practice of whole-school approaches to Education for Sustainability (EfS) in New Zealand schools, and the impact of these approaches on the school community and student learning. The framework will be used to construct research instruments for collecting data in five schools as case studies. This approach will aim to build capacity for research within the EfS community and the schools.

Outputs for 2010

Publications

Eames, C., Barker, M., Wilson-Hill, F., & Law,B.,Investigating the relationship between whole-school approaches to education for sustainability and student learning. Wellington: Teaching Learning Research Initiative.

The following frameworks have been developed by a team of researchers investigation the Impact of Whole-school Approaches to Education for Sustainability on Student Learning. If you have any feedback or questions about the framework, please contact the research director, Dr Chris Eames (email c.eames@waikato.ac.nz).A framework for developing whole- school approaches to EfS

  1. A Framework for developing whole-school approaches to EfS
  2. A framework for developing whole-school approaches to education for sustainability (Teacher guide)
  3. A framework for whole-school approaches to education for sustainability (EfS) (Facilitator guide)
  4. A framework for developing action competence in EfS
  5. A framework for developing action competence in education for sustainability (EfS)(Teacher guide)
  6. A framework for developing action competence in education for sustainability (EfS) (Facilitator guide)