Announcing a new ASTE sponsored monograph:
The Inclusion of Environmental Education in Science Teacher Education

Editors: Alec M. Bodzin, Beth Shiner Klein, and Starlin Weaver

This anthology of chapters from contributing authors focuses on the integration of environmental education into science teacher education.  The book begins by providing readers with foundational knowledge of environmental education as it applies to the discipline of science education.  The book chapters include pedagogical practices of environmental education as it pertains to science teacher education. Case studies of environmental education teaching and learning strategies as it applies to science teacher education and instructional practices in K-12 science classrooms are included.  This book shares knowledge and ideas about environmental education pedagogy in the context of science teacher preparation as it applies to teaching and learning in K-12 science classrooms.  This book serves as a tangible guide for both science teacher educators and K-12 science educators for including environmental education into science teacher education.

This book:

·        Examines and discusses environmental education foundations and pedagogical principles through theoretical and practical applications as it primarily pertains to the preparation of preservice and inservice science teachers.

·        Informs science teacher educators about the historical and philosophical underpinnings of EE, current trends in EE as it pertains to science teacher education, and EE-specific pedagogical practices and content-pedagogical knowledge for science teacher education.

·        Includes case studies that highlight the teaching and learning of environmental education content and concepts in science teacher education and discusses exemplary practice in K-12 classrooms. 

·        Discusses the integration of technology to promote the teaching and learning of environmental education in science teacher preparation. 

Learn more at the publisher's website:
http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/science+education/book/978-90-481-9221-2

Table of Contents

Preface
Alec M. Bodzin, Beth Shiner Klein, and Starlin Weaver

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Chapter 1. The History and Philosophy of Environmental Education
Robert L. Carter and Bora Simmons

Chapter 2. Professional Preparation for Science Teachers in Environmental Education
James T. McDonald and Lynn A. Dominguez

Chapter 3. Approaches to Environmental Education
Austin A. Winther, Kim Cleary Sadler, and Gerry Saunders

Chapter 4. Environmental Education Within the Early Childhood

Linda Plevyak and Amy Mayfield

Chapter 5. Environmental Education Service-Learning in Science Teacher Education 

Teddie Phillipson-Mower and April Dean Adams

Chapter 6. Beyond terra firma: Bringing Ocean and Aquatic Sciences to Environmental and Science Teacher Education

Diana L. Payne and Timothy D. Zimmerman

PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PEDAGOGY

Section 1: Outdoor Learning and Place-Based Environments

 

Chapter 7. Promoting the Use of Outdoor Learning Spaces by K-12 Inservice Science Teachers Through an Outdoor Professional Development Experience
Mark A. Bloom, Molly Holden, April T. Sawey, and Molly H. Weinburgh

Chapter 8. Integrating Environmental Education Field Trip Pedagogy Into Science Teacher Preparation 

Bryan Rebar and Larry G. Enochs

Chapter 9. “Eeew!  There’s Dew On My Toes”: Common Characteristics of Preservice Elementary Teacher Learning in Environmental Education and Instructional Strategies for Science Teacher Educators 

J. William Hug

Chapter 10. Name That Plant! Overcoming Plant Blindness and Developing a Sense of Place Using Science and Environmental Education
Jennifer Kreps Frisch, Matthew M. Unwin, and Gerald W. Saunders

Chapter 11. Place-Based Inquiry:  Advancing Environmental Education in Science Teacher Preparation 
Somnath Sarkar and Richard Frazier

Chapter 12. Summer Methods in Summer Camps: Teaching Projects WILD, WET, and Learning Tree at an Outdoor Environmental Education Center
Charles J. Eick, Doyle, E. Keasal, Karni Perez, and Sarah Carrier

Chapter 13. Teachers Connecting Urban Students to Their Environment 

Sherri L. Brown, Nikki L. Votaw, and Thomas R. Tretter

Section 2: Instructional Strategies

Chapter 14. Exploring Preservice Teachers’ Mental Models of the Environment
Christine Moseley, Blanche Desjean-Perrotta, Courtney Crim

Chapter 15. Pedagogy, Environmental Education, and Context: Promoting Knowledge Through Concept Mapping 

Barbara A Austin and Nina Schmidt

Chapter 16. Unraveling the Scientific, Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Environmental Issues Through Role-Playing Simulations

James G. MaKinster

Chapter 17. Exploring Environmental Education Through Eco-feminism: Narratives of Embodiment of Science

M.E. Spencer and Sherry E. Nichols

Chapter 18. The Value of Non-formal Environmental Education-Based Professional Development in Preservice Science Teacher Preparation

Tamara E. Peffer and Alec M. Bodzin

Chapter 19. Using Environmental Education Project Curricula with Elementary Preservice Teachers
Adele C. Schepige, Patricia D. Morrell, Cindi Smith-Walters, Kim Cleary Sadler, Miriam Munck, and Donna Rainboth


Section 3: Technology

Chapter 20. Situated Learning in Environmental Education: Using Geospatial Technologies for Preservice Secondary Teachers
Rita A. Hagevik, Harriett S. Stubbs, and Diane C. Whitaker

Chapter 21. Using Podcasting to Address Nature-Deficit Disorder

Beth Shiner Klein and Starlin D. Weaver

Chapter 22. Integrating Web-based Activities and Site-based Experiences to Investigate Environmental Issues 

Alec M. Bodzin