Educating for sustainability: environmental pledges as part of tertiary pedagogical practice in science teacher education     

Kathryn Paige 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2017,45(3):285-301

Educating for sustainability has been a key principle underpinning the primary/middle undergraduate teacher education programme at an Australian University for the past decade. Educating for sustainability seeks to provide knowledge and understanding of the physical, biological, and human world, and involves students making decisions about a range of ethical, social, environmental and economic issues, and acting upon them. This study (a part of the ongoing evaluation of our courses) focuses on pre-service teachers (PSTs) who have selected a minor in science and mathematics. Participatory and inclusive learning processes, transdisciplinary collaborations, experiential learning, and the use of local environment and community as learning resources as outlined by Sterling (2001) have formed the basis of much of our practice to develop PSTs’ confidence and competence to teach science. This paper explores one pedagogical practice, environmental pledges which the preservice teachers undertook for 15 weeks. The focus is on the impact that undertaking an environmental pledge has had on the personal and professional lives of two groups, first, four cohorts of final-year science and mathematics pathway PSTs, and second, a small group of early-career teachers who had completed the course in previous years. Data have been collected from final-year science and mathematics students and early-career teachers using ethnographic methods to provide insight into their experiences of using the pledge.  相似文献   

Harmonizing ecological sustainability and higher education development: Wisdom from Chinese ancient education philosophy     

Xiaoxia Chen 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(11):1080-1090

Abstract

Ecological sustainability can be considered the primary goal of higher education development, as it provides an ontological way to think about what it means for higher education’s long-term development. Given the widespread concern of ecological sustainability, it’s urgent to interpret and deconstruct ecological sustainability in Chinese higher education from indigenous and original perspectives. By drawing on the wisdom from Chinese ancient education philosophy which provides unique enlightenment for ecological sustainability, this paper discusses the harmonization of ecological sustainability and higher education development. In the light of the connotation of contemporary ecological sustainability and the new development of Chinese higher education, the paper also constructs a dynamic model of ecologically sustainable development in Chinese higher education. The aim is to initiate more philosophical dialogues between ancient and modern education, and to provide a new way of conceptualizing Chinese ancient education philosophy in the postmodern times.  相似文献   

The role of digital stories and civic actions on student-teachers’ understanding about social sustainability in urban settings     

Georgios Malandrakis  Stergios Gkitsas  Evagelia-Zoi Bara 《Environmental Education Research》2019,25(10):1524-1551

Abstract

The present study aims to explore student-teachers’ (STs’) progress in understanding social urban sustainability and how it is affected through the development of digital stories and engagement in civic actions. Participants were 44 STs enrolled in a Department of Primary Education located in Northern Greece. Although participants were aware of the principles of sustainable development and education for sustainability, none of them had familiarity with social or urban sustainability. Three individual digital concept maps constructed before, intermediate and after the end of the course served as data sources. Both quantitative (significance testing, effect sizes, and confidence intervals) and qualitative (categories development) methods of analysis were implemented. Results indicate a sound improvement of STs’ understanding even in the intermediate concept maps with the most significant proposition gains associated with the society pillar. Moreover, despite the significant improvement in understanding of all main pillars of sustainability, this improvement was unbalanced because a minority of subcategories constituted the majority of STs’ propositions in all settings, indicating a strong and constructive combination between theory and praxis for the advancement of STs’ learning.  相似文献   

碳中和背景下我国典型战略性金属中长期可持续供给路径          下载免费PDF全文

曾现来  李金惠  耿涌  郝瀚  黄薇润  孙鑫 《中国科学院院刊》2023,38(8):1099-1109

矿产资源是经济社会发展的重要物质基础,不合理开采、利用、消费不仅会影响产业链和供应链的安全,而且会对生态环境造成严重污染。新一轮科技革命和碳中和战略正在重塑全球创新版图和技术格局,伴随着我国经济社会发展进入后疫情阶段,战略性金属的供需结构正发生深刻变化。一方面,其产业链和供应链面临的安全挑战从传统的资源产品获取能否得到保障,蔓延至开采、加工、应用、循环利用等全产业链条。另一方面,我国固体废物产生量迅速增长,但其作为二次金属的循环利用率仍然不高,这将导致大量资源损失。面向未来,国家（政府）应尽快建立二次金属的资源量和储量精细分类分级管理体系,健全二次金属的收集和资源化体系,促进制订资源高效利用制度及标准,保障国内战略性金属的高效内循环及自给自足,彻底摆脱战略性金属受制于人的局面。  相似文献   

共享经济可持续性评价：社会感知与客观绩效     

董晓松  霍依凡  赵星 《科研管理》2023,44(1):79-88

共享经济行业可持续性评价的社会感知和客观绩效不一致将造成认知错位、投资误判和政策失效等结果。本文在线挖掘2017—2019年我国主要社交媒体上29 771条文本信息,并收集行业统计数据,综合测度共享经济行业的可持续性并比较其差异。研究发现：社会公众并不认为共享经济行业具有显著的总体可持续性,而且行业实际绩效展现的可持续性与社会大众认知截然不同。进一步发现：受限于主观认知能力,社会公众认为共享经济可持续性主要来自可观察到的行业外部经济和外部生态等维度,但客观绩效表明共享经济行业内部的经济和外部的技术优势才是其可持续性的重要支撑。此外,二者评价的差异在住宿与医疗等产能共享内部过程不易被大众观察的行业中最为突出。  相似文献   

RFID技术与现代物流信息系统设计--兼论RFID技术在上海石化仓库智能化管理中的运用   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

裴峰林国龙  杨权斌 《上海海事大学学报》2005,26(4):52-56

把RFID技术与BPM相融合,分析了上海石化物流信息系统的构成和物流信息平台的功能要求与实现方法,扩展了信息系统的应用层面和管理幅度,对物流资源的系统整合和提供物流一体化服务具有十分重要的意义。  相似文献   

Artificial intelligence for digital sustainability: An insight into domain-specific research and future directions     

《International Journal of Information Management》2023

Recent research call for action on digital sustainability research could potentially contribute to achieving United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In this opinion piece, we specifically focus on artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology that could help achieve digital sustainability. We identify six dimensions related to AI grounded in past literature: sensemaking, relationships among actors in the supply chain, green creativity skills, metrics, strategies, and AI tool improvement. We conceptualize several propositions for these six dimensions, highlighting the nuances associated with AI for digital sustainability to provide clear directions for future research.  相似文献   

Beyond individual-centric privacy: Information technology in social systems     

Wolter Pieters 《The Information Society》2017,33(5):271-281

In the public debate, social implications of information technology are mainly seen through the privacy lens. Impact assessments of information technology are also often limited to privacy impact assessments, which are focused on individual rights and well-being, as opposed to the social environment. In this article, I argue that this perspective is too narrow, in terms of understanding the complexity of the relation between information technology and society, as well as in terms of directions for managing this relation. I use systems theory to show that current approaches focus mostly on individual impact of information technology developments rather than their mediating role in society itself. I argue that this should be complemented by an analysis of impact on individuals (psychic systems) via co-construction of the environment (social system). I then take up the question of what the role of information technology in social systems would look like in terms of the social relations of trust and power, and how this can complement privacy in discussions on impacts of information technology.  相似文献   

国内外图情类期刊网站可用性分析     

王保成 《中国科技期刊研究》2017,28(8):736-740

【目的】了解国内外图书馆学情报学期刊网站可用性是否存在差异及差异的来源。【方法】 以国内18种、国外21种高影响力的图书馆学情报学期刊网站为分析对象,采用可达性、可读性、网站响应速度和网站链接效果进行比较测评。【结果】 国内外图书馆学情报学期刊在网站可用性方面存在一定程度的差异,国内图书馆学情报学期刊网站在可用性方面有一定的改进空间。【结论】 国内期刊应当更多地从使用者的角度考虑网站建设,科技期刊网站的可用性应根据不同的语言进行有针对性的评价。  相似文献   

合同能源管理绩效评价的理论模型构建与实证研究     

曹莉萍  诸大建 《资源科学》2016,38(3):414-427

学术上对于合同能源管理服务问题的研究主要是对其机制的研究,对合同能源管理服务绩效领域的实证研究相对来说比较少.为深入研究合同能源管理服务绩效的关键影响因素,并构建完善的合同能源管理服务绩效评价体系,本文根据可持续性科学(2.0版)思想,分析了合同能源管理服务绩效理论框架,提出了基于三重底线的服务绩效,多方利益相关主体满意度,合作满意度,过程管理效果,整体服务绩效之间关系的研究假设,构建了基于"压力(Pressure)-状态(State)-反映(Response)"(PSR)驱动力模型的合同能源管理对象,主体,过程三维绩效评价模型.同时基于上海地区109份有效调查问卷数据,采用结构方程模型实证检验理论模型所提出的15个研究假设.检验结果显示:合同能源管理服务主体中的节能服务公司,政府这两个主体的满意度与服务绩效之间研究假设没有通过检验,其他研究假设均通过检验.研究结果表明:①影响合同能源管理服务绩效各维度因素对整体服务绩效具有重要影响;②除了节能服务公司,政府这两个主体的满意度,其他核心利益相关主体满意度对合作满意度也具有重要影响;③节能服务公司满意度对合作满意度具有显著的消极影响.最后,基于上述研究结论,本文从过程管理,主体合作治理两个方面,为提升合同能源管理服务绩效提出对策建议.  相似文献