SWOT analysis of education for environmental citizenship - Short israeli Report

Daphne Goldman

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8. Goldman, D. (2019). SWOT analysis of education for environmental citizenship – Short Israeli report. pp. 163-176, In: Hadjichamnbis, A.Ch., Reis, P., & Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D. (Eds.) European SWOT Analysis on Educations for Environmental Citizenship: ENEC Cost Action Report. Lisbon: Institute o

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This is the israeli chapter of the ENEC Cost Action report European SWOT Analysis on Education for Environmental Citizenship. Prior to consolidating the views of seven experts (academics, teachers, government officials, profesisonal in NGOs) in the area of education for the environment in Israel, the chapter provides a frame of the israeli context regarding education for the environment.

Daphne Goldman

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Goldman, D., & Sarid, A. (in press). Connecting Environmental Citizenship and Transformative Leadership as a Foundation for a Dynamic Curricular Approach. In: Haled Arar, Gila Kurtz, Jamal Abu-Hussein and Hana Bar-Ishai (Eds.) Education as a Complex System. Tel Aviv: Pardes, pp. 245-266.

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This manuscript is part of a book in press that looks at education as complext system. This paper presents a model for connecting environmentla citizenship and transformative leadership as a basis for a dynamic approach in curricula.

Environmental Education for Sustainability as Value Education

Daphne Goldman

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Pe'er, S., Yavetz, B. and Goldman, D. (2013). Environmental Education for Sustainability as Values Education - The Challenge for Teacher Educators. Pp. 135-153 in: M. Ben-Peretz, S. Kleeman, R. Reichenberg and S. Shimoni (Eds.) Embracing the Social and the Creative: New Scenarios for Teacher Educati

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This chapter is part of a book that looks into challenges regarding the goals of education in order to prepare learners to cope effectively with emerging changes - competences such as critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity and collabroation, which are current goals for enabling lifelong learning.. w Within this context, this chapter, which addresses teachers in general, focuses on environmental and sustainability education (ESE) as education for values - an aspect which situates ESE as education for all and is therefore relevant for all teachers.

Is environmentalism a component of youth movement memebers' social activism?

Daphne Goldman

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Goldman, D., Pe’er, S. & Yavetz, B. (2017). Environmental literacy of youth movement members – is environmentalism a component of their social activism? Environmental Education Research, 23(4), 486-514.

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Israel

This paper is an outcome of the national survey of environmentla education within the Israeli youth movements, which was requested and supported by the Israeli Ministry for Environmental Protection. The study led to policy recommendations for enhancing environmental education within this major non-formal framework. Establishing 'accrediation of green branches' of youth movements exemplifies how research can impact policy.

Promoting ESE in the ultraorthodox community

Daphne Goldman

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Alkaher, I., Goldman, D., & Sagy, G. (2018) Culturally based education for sustainability – Insights from a pioneering ultraorthodox city in Israel. Sustainability, 10(10), 3721.

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Israel

This interpretive study ties into sustainability in multicultural contexts. It explored how a pioneering ultraorthodox municipality (local governance) is bringing sustainability and environmental and sustainability education into the ultrorthodox community. The findings indicate several directions for adapting ESE to ultraorthodox values and worldviews, and suggest several principles for incorporating ESE within diverse cultural groups in multicultural societies.

socio-cultural anchors for ESE in youth movements

Daphne Goldman

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Goldman, D., Pe'er, S., & Yavetz, B. (2019). Socio-cultural anchors for incorporating sustainability in youth movements: Comparison among secular, religious and ultraorthodox movements. The Journal of Environmental Education, 51(3), 183-199.

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Israel

In Israel youth movements comprise a main agent for nonformal education of youth and a youth engagement framework in which civic engagement can be xpanded to include environemal-social challenges. This national level study, supported by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, study ties into envirnmental and sustainability education in multicultural contexts. It explored and compared environmental literacy and citizenship attributes among young guides (leaders)in secular, religious and ultraorthodox youth movements. The study led to recommendations for incorporating meaningful ESE within these cultural groups.

environmentla citizenship of university students reflected in voting decisions and environmentla activism

Daphne Goldman

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Goldman, D., Ayalon, O., Baum, D., & Haham, S. (2015). Major matters: Relationship between academic major and university students’ environmental literacy and citizenship as reflected in their voting decisions and environmental activism. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 1

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Israel

This study explores the relationship between exposure to environmental content during higher education studies and stduents' inclusion of environmentla considerations in political participation as a component of their environmental citizenship. The study led to implications for incorporating sustainability within different academic programs in ways that may be effective in preparing environmentally-responsible graduates and preparing them as influential environmental citizens and professionals in society

green/eco school certification; whole school aaproach to sustainability

Daphne Goldman

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Goldman, D., Ayalon, O., Baum, D. & Weiss, B. (2018). Influence of ‘Green School Certification’ on students' environmental literacy and adoption of sustainable practice by schools. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183: 1300-1313.

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Israel

This study explores the influence of the 'green school certification', as whole school approach to sustainability, on the environmental literacy and citizenship aspects of upper primary students, and on the adption of sustainability as the school culture. The study identified challenges and presents suggestions for increasing the impact of this green school mechanism as a major educational channel for national sustainable development policy in promoting sustainability.

pre-service teachers perceptions of environment

Daphne Goldman

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Yavetz, B., Goldman, D. & Pe'er, S. (2014). How do pre-service teachers perceive 'environment'? Implications for the development of environmental literacy in teacher training. Environmental Education Research, 20(3), 354-371.

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Israel

The environmental is an ecological, cultural, social and political construct. It is, therefore, worthy to understand how student teachers, as future social change agents, understand the concept of environment and its relation to their area of teaching, This was the focus of this study. The ways in which these pre-service teachers perceive environmenta and its relevance to their area of teaching provides atrting points for incorporating meaningful ESE into to their training studies.