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102. Using the ECD Framework to Support Evidentiary Reasoning in the Context of a Simulation Study for Detecting Learner Differences in Epistemic Games
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Sweet, Shauna J. and Rupp, Andre A.
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The "evidence-centered design" (ECD) framework is a powerful tool that supports careful and critical thinking about the identification and accumulation of evidence in assessment contexts. In this paper, we demonstrate how the ECD framework provides critical support for designing simulation studies to investigate statistical methods within an ill-defined methodological domain like games-based assessment. We discuss the design and selected findings of a complex simulation study to investigate the utility of statistics derived from a non -parametric method called "epistemic network analysis"; this method is used in practice for the analysis of real data from a suite of digital learning environments called "epistemic games." We present findings that show that one marginal ENA statistic, the "weighted density" statistic from social network analysis, has some ability to detect differences among a variety of simulated learners when they play different types of simulated games. Detection strength ranged from weak to strong, depending jointly on game design characteristics and the types of learners being compared. Our work illustrates the complex challenges of how best to describe, justify, and evaluate design decisions for simulation studies in the context of games-based assessment.
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- 2012
103. Better Together: Coeur d'Alene Reservation Communities and the University of Idaho
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Salant, Priscilla and Laumatia, Laura
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The Coeur d'Alene Reservation spans 345,000 acres of mountains and farmland in northern Idaho. Most people on the reservation live in the communities of Worley, Plummer, Tensed, and Desmet. Roughly 50 miles south of Plummer is the University of Idaho's main campus in Moscow. The university is Idaho's land-grant institution, with a statewide mission of teaching, research, and outreach. Through its strategic plan, the university is committed to partnerships like Better Together, a university-community partnership in which university faculty members and students work across disciplines to address critical issues, side by side with communities. Better Together brought together two university programs--Horizons and the Building Sustainable Communities Initiative (BSCI)--with people in communities on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation. The communities partnered with the university through University of Idaho Extension's Horizons program to expand leadership capacity and reduce poverty. For its part, the university partnered with the communities first as part of its outreach mission (through Horizons), and then, building from the Horizons relationship, to give its students real-world learning experiences. From 2006 through 2009, local residents interacted with University of Idaho faculty members and students in a variety of settings--community leadership training, broad-based community visioning, activities to reduce poverty, land use planning sessions, and social events. Two years after the main programs ended, there are positive outcomes for the communities as well as the university. This article describes the University of Idaho's partnership with the Coeur d'Alene Reservation Communities, which was awarded a 2010 Outreach Scholarship/W. K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award for the Western Region. (Contains 1 figure.)
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- 2011
104. Public Schools and the Original Federal Land Grant Program. A Background Paper from the Center on Education Policy
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Center on Education Policy and Usher, Alexandra
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This background paper from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) examines the origins, history, and evolution of federal land grants for public schools, as well as their significance as an early example of the federal role in education. It is intended to serve as a more detailed companion to another CEP paper, "Get the Federal Government Out of Education? That Wasn't the Founding Fathers' Vision" (CEP, 2011), which mentions land grants as part of a broader look at the historical federal role in education. Several key points can be drawn from this paper: (1) Federal support for public schools is not a modern concept; (2) The nation's founders saw these land grants as a way to encourage public education and incorporate the principles of democracy throughout the vast western territory; (3) The policy of land grants for education continued to be endorsed in federal laws spanning from the Jefferson Administration through the Eisenhower Administration; (4) Land grants were an early example of the federal government using a carrot-and-stick approach with states; and (5) Federal land grants continue to generate revenues for education. A table showing basic information about which states received federal land grants, which lands were granted to these states for use of the public schools, and which federal act granted these lands is appended. (Contains 2 tables and 5 footnotes.) [For the companion report, "Get the Federal Government out of Education? That Wasn't the Founding Fathers' Vision," see ED518386.]
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- 2011
105. Missing the Boat on Invasive Alien Species: A Review of Post-Secondary Curricula in Canada
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Smith, Andrea L., Bazely, Dawn R., and Yan, Norman D.
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Invasive alien species (IAS) cause major environmental and economic damage worldwide, and also threaten human food security and health. The impacts of IAS are expected to rise with continued globalization, land use modification, and climate change. Developing effective strategies to deal with IAS requires a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, in which scientists work co-operatively with social scientists and policy-makers. Higher education can contribute to this process by training professionals to balance the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of the IAS problem. We examined the extent of such training in Canada by reviewing undergraduate and graduate university curricula at all 94 member institutions of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada for IAS content. We found that degree and diploma programs focusing on IAS issues are lacking at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Furthermore, few courses are devoted solely to IAS, and those that are typically adopt an ecological perspective. We argue that the absence of interdisciplinary university curricula on IAS in Canada negatively affects our ability to respond to this growing global challenge. We present several international educational programs on IAS as case studies on how to better integrate training on invasive species into university curricula in Canada. (Contains 1 table.)
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- 2011
106. Superintendent's Recommended FY 2012 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program
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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
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In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on-years) the County Council would conduct a full review of the six-year CIP and in even-numbered fiscal years (off-years), the County Council only would consider amendments to the adopted CIP. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2012 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2011-2016 CIP provides the recommended appropriation authority for funds needed to implement CIP projects during FY 2012 as well as proposed amendments to the Adopted FY 2011-2016 CIP. This document contains the following sections: Chapter 1, "The Recommended FY 2012 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program (CIP)," is a review of the major factors that have influenced the development of recommended projects to the FY 2012 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2011-2016 CIP. This chapter includes a table summarizing recommended Amendments to the FY 2011-2016 CIP. Chapter 2, "The Planning Environment," describes the demographic, economic, and enrollment trends in Montgomery County that form the context for reviewing facility plans and addressing long-range system needs. Chapter 3, "Facility Planning Objectives," outlines six facility planning objectives that guide the school system as it moves to accommodate enrollment growth and program changes. The objectives are discussed and placed in the context of the recommended CIP actions. Chapter 4, "Recommended Actions and Planning Issues," is arranged by high school cluster and high school consortium. This chapter provides maps depicting school boundaries and locations, a bar graph that indicates school utilization within each cluster, tables with enrollment projections, school demographic profiles, building room use, capacity data, and other facility information. Planning issues are identified, and adopted actions and recommended actions to this CIP are discussed. Chapter 5, "Countywide Projects," provides a brief summary description of the CIP projects that are programmed to meet the needs of many schools across the county. These projects involve multiyear plans with different schools scheduled each year. (Referred to as countywide projects). The following are appended: (1) Projected Enrollment; (2) Special Program Enrollment; (3) School Enrollment and Capacity; (4) Relocatable Classrooms Placements; (5) Modernization Schedule for Assessed Schools; (6) Planned Life-cycle Asset Replacement (PLAR) Projects; (7) Restroom Renovations Schedule; (8) Head Start and Prekindergarten Locations; (9) Growth Policy; (10) State and Local Capacities Table; (11) Reopened Schools; (12) Closed Schools; (13) Catchment Area Maps; (14) Political District Maps and Tables; (15) Priority Funding Areas and Hot Spots; (16) Land Use, Growth Policy, and MCPS Enrollment Forecasting; (17) Capacity Calculation; (18) Assessing Schools for Modernization; (19) Special Education Program Descriptions; (20) Long-range Facilities Planning Policy and Interim Regulation; (21) Quality Integrated Education Policy; (22) Sustaining and Modernizing Montgomery County Public Schools Facilities Policy; (23) Transfer of Students Policy; and (24) Student Transportation Policy. School Addresses, Phone Numbers, and the Planning Calendar are also included. [This report was published by the Department of Materials Management for the Department of Facilities Management and the Division of Long-range Planning.]
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- 2010
107. Indian Education for All: Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians. Revised
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Montana Office of Public Instruction
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In the year 1999, OPI [Montana Office of Public Instruction] brought together representatives from all the tribes in Montana and created 7 Essential Understandings. These are some of the major issues all tribes have in common. They form the basis for all of our curriculum efforts and initiatives. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal Nations of Montana in their languages, cultures, histories and governments. Each Nation has a distinct and unique cultural heritage that contributes to modern Montana. The seven Essential Understandings (EU) cover, but are not limited to: EU 1 Reservations: Tribal Groups; EU 2 Diversity of the American Indian; EU 3 Ideologies of Native traditional beliefs and spirituality and oral histories; EU 4 Lands reserved by the tribes; EU 5 Federal Policy Periods; EU 6 Indigenous perspectives of History; and EU 7 Tribal sovereignty.
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- 2010
108. Environmental Engagement and the Problem of NIMBYism (The 'Not In My Backyard' Syndrome)
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Humber, William
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NIMBYism, the popular and short form for "Not In My Back Yard", describes the resistance and outright opposition by residents, either within a distinct place such as a neighbourhood, or, more broadly, in a larger civic area right up to a town or city level, against some planned nearby facility, service, or changed land use. NIMBYism is also about people's more extensive relation to the world of change, and their understanding of the wider places in which they move. It is an existential issue touching on the ways people find meaning in the world. As such it is an ethical issue connected to choices which are often less about care for others then one's ability to consume. It is tied into the integrated nature of people's civic, economic and environmental obligations. In this article, the author talks about environmental engagement and the problem of the "Not In My Back Yard" syndrome. He first describes the historic roots of NIMBYism and the contemporary forces in continuing NIMBYism. He then offers solutions for overcoming NIMBYism.
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- 2010
109. Essential Understandings of Montana Hutterites: A Resource Guide for Educators and Students
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Montana Office of Public Instruction and Morton, Claudette
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In Montana there are many misconceptions and some prejudice with regard to the Hutterites who live here. This document was written following the structure of the state's Essential Understandings of Montana American Indians. It is intended as an introductory resource guide for Montana educators and students. The Five Essential Understandings of Montana Hutterites seek to dispel the misconceptions by providing information about these citizens and taxpayers of Montana. The document was a year long project of Hutterite educators and elders, as well as education staff from county and state on levels. Guidance, additional research and editing was provided by a researcher who has worked with the Hutterites and other rural schools for a number of years.
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- 2010
110. Wicked Learning: Reflecting on 'Learning to Be Drier'
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Golding, Barry, Brown, Mike, Foley, Annette, Smith, Erica, Campbell, Coral, Schulz, Christine, Angwin, Jennifer, and Grace, Lauri
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In this final, collaborative paper in the "Learning to be drier" edition, we reflect on and draw together some of the key threads from the diverse narratives in our four site papers from across the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Our paper title, "Wicked learning", draws on a recent body literature (Rittel & Webber 1973) about messy or "wicked problems" as characterised by Dietz and Stern (1998). It picks up on our identification of the difficulty and enormity of the learning challenges being faced by communities, associated, at best, with a decade of record dry years (drought) and severely over-committed rivers. At worst, drought is occurring in combination with and as a precursor to recent, progressive drying of the Basin associated with climate change. Our research is suggestive of a need for much more learning across all segments of the adult community about "... the big picture, including the interrelationships among the full range of causal factors ..." (Australian Public Service Commission, APSC 2007: 1) underlying the presenting problem of drying. We conclude that solutions to the messy or wicked problem of drying in an interconnected Basin will lie in the social domain. This will include building a wider knowledge and acceptance of the problems and likely future risks across the Basin including all parts of communities. The problem of drying as well as its causes and solutions are multidimensional, and will involve comprehensive learning about all five key characteristics of other "wicked" policy problems identified in previous research in the environmental arena. The narratives that we have heard identify the extreme difficulty in all four sites of rational and learned responses to being drier as the problem has unfolded. All narratives about being drier that we have heard involve a recognition of a combination of the five characteristics common to wicked problems: multidimensionality, scientific uncertainty, value confect and uncertainty, mistrust as well as urgency. All narratives identify the importance of social learning: to be productive, to be efficient, to survive, to live with uncertainty, to be sustainable and to share. Combating the extent and effects of drying, causality aside, will require new forms of learning through new community, social and learning spaces, apart from and in addition to new technological and scientific learning. (Contains 1 figure.)
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- 2009
111. Learning to Be Drier in Dryland Country
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Smith, Erica and Campbell, Coral
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This research project, part of a much larger study, considered how people in regional communities learnt to deal with the impact of reduced water availability as a result of drought or climate change. The communities in the Mallee-Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, were the focus of this study and a range of local people from different sectors of the communities were involved in interviews, which became our main data source. We recognise the limitation that not all viewpoints could possibly be accessed in the participant selection process. The resultant data indicated that significant changes were being made to local practices as a result of the learning taking place and that there were a range of processes which enabled adult learning across the communities. (Contains 1 table.)
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- 2009
112. Bearing the Risk: Learning to Be Drier Mid-River
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Golding, Barry and Angwin, Jennifer
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This paper investigates learning related to the phenomena of drying over the past decade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, as perceived in a mid-river site within the western Riverina of New South Wales, Australia. The insights from audio-recorded interviews, with a wide range of adults across the water-dependent community, mostly relate to the catchment of the Murrumbidgee River in the Shire of Hay. Our overarching theme is about how people are learning about, understanding and bearing the risks, of what is widely regarded as a prolonged drought. For some, the learning is about how to cope with less water in the Basin, and particularly from the river, as predicted in the climate change literature. Our narrative-based, empirical research registers the felt experience of those located, in situ, as a severe "irrigation drought" extends into 2009. The paper dramatises the many obstacles to learning how to think and act differently, in difficult and rapidly changing ecosocial circumstances. (Contains 3 footnotes.)
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- 2009
113. Learning to Be Drier: A Case Study of Adult and Community Learning in the Australian Riverland
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Brown, Mike and Schulz, Christine
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This article explores the adult and community learning associated with "learning to be drier" in the Riverland region of South Australia. Communities in the Riverland are currently adjusting and making changes to their understandings and practices as part of learning to live with less water. The analysis of adult and community learning derived from this research identified six different forms of learning. These are, learning to produce, learning to be efficient, learning to survive, learning to live with uncertainty, learning to be sustainable and learning to share. These forms of learning do not occur in isolation and separately from each other but to the contrary are occurring simultaneously with and alongside each other. Further, it is argued that the people and communities in the Riverland, through learning to live with the effects of climate change and less water, are at the forefront of learning to be drier. (Contains 1 table.)
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- 2009
114. Water, Weeds and Autumn Leaves: Learning to Be Drier in the Alpine Region
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Foley, Annette and Grace, Lauri
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Our paper explores how and what adults living and working in the Alpine region of Victoria understand and are learning about the changes to water availability, in a time when the response to water availability is subject to extensive debate and policy attention. Interviews for this study were conducted in the towns of Bright and Mount Beauty, with participants drawn from across the Alpine region. The interviews focused on what local stakeholders from the Alpine region understood about water availability in the region and how and what they had learned about living and working with climatic changes in their local area. The findings of our study see that there was evidence of a strong understanding of the direct and indirect impact of climate change on participants' local community area. The study also sees evidence of learning through a community "frames of reference" as outlined by Berkhout, Hertin and Dann et al.
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- 2009
115. Learning to Be Drier in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin: Setting the Scene for This Research Volume
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Golding, Barry and Campbell, Coral
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In this article, the authors set the scene for this research volume. They sought to emphasize and broaden their interest and concern about their "Learning to be drier" theme in this edition to the 77 per cent of Australians who live within 50 km of the Australian coast, the majority of whom also live in major cities and urban complexes. On 24 September 2009, a massive dust storm swept across New South Wales, dumping millions of tonnes of red dust on capital city areas of Australia unaccustomed to dust: (1) Canberra; (2) Sydney; and (3) Brisbane. Snow, laced with the same red dust fell the same day in the Australian Alps, as attempts at breaking the historic and prolonged deadlock between the Australian federal government and states about water trading rules, as part of achieving a national "plan" for the Murray Darling-Basin, again broke down. On 1 October 2009 the New South Wales Office of Water circulated a news release, making "an initial allocation (in the Murray Valley) to general security users of 1 per cent" of their entitlements, and asking all water users "to be as conservative as possible with their use in what continues to be the worst drought ever experienced". Eight researchers contributed team papers to this special edition from the four sites in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Collectively, they bring wide and deep academic backgrounds, theoretical perspectives and experiences from a wide range of work, research and life contexts, in mainly rural and regional Australia. While the research plan detailed in this article was essentially common, each two-person team grappled with and selected its own preferred combination of theoretical perspectives for their paper. The method and the qualitative (mainly interview) data were therefore treated somewhat differently across different sites. While the four site papers were researched, developed and written relatively independently by two-person teams, their joint, sixth paper attempts to "stand back". In sum, they collaboratively seek to critically analyse and draw some conclusions about what might be common or different about the diverse approaches to learning about being drier, drawn from four very different land use contexts, in the same Basin, across three different Australian states. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
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- 2009
116. Superintendent's Recommended FY 2011 Capital Budget and the FY 2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program
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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
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In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on-years) the County Council would conduct a full review of the six-year CIP and in even-numbered fiscal years (off-years), the County Council only would consider amendments to the adopted CIP. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2011-2016 CIP falls in an odd-numbered fiscal year and will receive a full review by the County Council. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2011 Capital Budget and FY 2011-2016 CIP provides the recommended appropriation authority for funds needed to implement CIP projects during FY 2011 and the expenditure schedule for FY 2011-2016 CIP. This document contains the following sections. Chapter 1, "The Recommended FY 2011 Capital Budget and FY 2011-2016 Capital Improvements Program (CIP)," is a review of the major factors that have influenced the development of recommended projects to the FY 2011 Capital Budget and the FY 2011-2016 CIP. This chapter includes a table summarizing the recommended FY 2011-2016 CIP. Chapter 2, "The Planning Environment," describes the demographic, economic, and enrollment trends in Montgomery County that form the context for reviewing facility plans and addressing long-range system needs. Chapter 3, "Facility Planning Objectives," outlines six facility planning objectives that guide the school system as it moves to accommodate enrollment growth and program changes. The objectives are discussed and placed in the context of the recommended CIP actions. Chapter 4, "Recommended Actions and Planning Issues," is arranged by high school cluster and high school consortium. This chapter provides maps depicting school boundaries and locations, a bar graph that indicates school utilization within each cluster, tables with enrollment projections, school demographic profiles, building room use, capacity data, and other facility information. Planning issues are identified, and adopted actions and recommended actions to this CIP are discussed. Chapter 5, "Countywide Projects," provides a brief summary description of the CIP projects that are programmed to meet the needs of many schools across the county. These projects involve multiyear plans with different schools scheduled each year. (Referred to as countywide projects) Several appendices, at the end of the document, contain information on a variety of topics including enrollment information, state-rated capacities, Board of Education policies, modernization schedules, available school sites, closed schools and their current use, and relocatable classroom placements. Also included are maps for identifying Board of Education, council manic, and legislative election districts. [This report was published by the Office of Communications and Family Outreach for the Department of Facilities Management and the Division of Long-range Planning. For "Superintendent's Recommended FY 2009 Capital Budget and the FY 2009-2014 Capital Improvements Program," see ED557694.]
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- 2009
117. Environmental Liabilities and Sustainability for Educational Institutions
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Heft, John J.
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"Green" is the new mantra for many institutions. School districts as well as colleges and universities across the country are constantly searching for new ways to reduce energy use, waste and the harmful greenhouse gas emissions emitted into the environment. In fact long before "carbon footprint" became a common phrase, educational institutions nationwide have been concerned about the possible environmental impact and/or liabilities produced by their activities. This includes the growing emphasis on sustainability and the impact these practices can have on environmental insurance as well as the numerous environmental exposures that can be encountered during nearly any phase of construction and operation. Educational facility owners should have significant environmental concerns regarding new construction activities as well as the operation of existing premises. That's because property contamination can result from numerous sources that include historical usage. Environmental liabilities need not provide obstacles to educational institutions if they are proactively identified, managed and mitigated. Several of these methods include the utilization of risk management techniques, contractually, or via environmental insurance. With concerns continually on the rise about risk liabilities in environmental and sustainable construction, educational institutions nationwide are beginning to take even greater advantage of the many benefits provided by the proper insurance coverage. Fortunately, it is a market that has continued to adapt and broaden in accordance with the specific needs of facility managers representing nearly every American industry.
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- 2009
118. Using the Land
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Nagle, Corey and Pecore, John
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Land use and development are complex issues rooted in ecology and environmental science as well as in politics and economics. This complexity lends itself to a problem-based learning (PBL) lesson for environmental science students. In the lesson described in this article, students investigated developing a city-owned, 13-acre site where a shopping mall had been demolished, leaving open land and a parking lot. This project allowed students to explore environmental science concepts and use science and engineering practices and communication skills. While students acknowledged that the process of considering multiple perspectives and devising a comprehensive plan was more challenging than they anticipated, all groups presented a final land use that was supported with evidence.
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- 2018
119. Second Grade Students Learn about Civil Engineers and Erosion
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Anderson, Andrea Earline and Meier, Jessica A.
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The integration of art into curricula focused on teaching science is a new perspective in education designed to reach a broader range of students. The current study examined the process of second-grade students participating in science and art activities through qualitative content analysis. The subjects of science and art were not taught to the students separately, rather, students engaged in both subjects simultaneously, in an integrated manner. Participants were 23 second-grade students (11 female and 12 male; age range 7 to 8 years) who were learning about erosion through sketching and creative construction and the work of civil engineers through role-play and exploration of problems they solve. Sources of information for the study included student-reported symbolism for engineering badges, classroom discussions, students' responses during testing of sand hills, teacher observations, and student writings. Major themes in the process of the students were: connections to prior knowledge of erosion and engineers along with symbols connected to engineers; observing erosion and shapes of the land; integration of art bringing motivation; social learning and teamwork; problem-solving solutions to erosion; making connections between the classroom testing and the real world; and the desire to continue exploring erosion. The lessons emphasized learning "through" and "with" the arts, making the lessons engaging and motivating students to continue learning on their own.
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- 2018
120. Can Videos Play a Role in Promoting Good Landscape Management Behaviors?
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Warner, Laura A., Lamm, Alexa J., and Rumble, Joy N.
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This study tested the effect of four short videos appealing to environmental values on home irrigation users' intent to use good irrigation and fertilization practices. The videos were largely ineffective, and there was only a small effect on one of the behaviors within the fertilizer loss treatment group. Implications point to a need for environmental education professionals to develop strategies to address environmental issues fatigue and conduct audience research that informs communications and educational programs. Environmental education professionals should encourage water protection with nonenvironmental appeals, possibly by connecting to personal or social values.
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- 2018
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121. Social Mapping and Environmental Education: Dialogues from Participatory Mapping in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Silva, Regina, Jaber, Michelle, and Sato, Michèle
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This article illustrates the steps taken to enact a new methodology for participatory social mapping by the Environmental Education, Communications and the Arts (GPEA) Research Group of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). The aim of Social Mapping is to record the identities, territories and socio-environmental conflicts experienced by social groups, based on their own namings and narratives, rather than relying on those more typically generated or provided by researchers or theorists. As such, it offers an important dialogical pathway for environmental education practices, in that it highlights the intrinsic relationship between culture and nature, and reinforces the understanding that the loss of one implies the disappearance of the other.
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- 2018
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122. School Geography: What Interests Students, What Interests Teacher?
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Kidman, Gillian
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There is evidence indicating that students are rarely asked about what they want to learn, but when they are asked, the students readily identify topics of personal relevance with a hands-on component. They want topics that are curiosity-based and not knowledge based. This paper draws on data that gave voice to 199 students studying geography and their teachers. A short survey explored students' interest in a variety of topics commonly found in geography curriculum documents. Interviews were used to increase reliability and validity. The analysis of the survey followed a "Whole Group Mean Score" and allowed for the generation of a ranked order of topics from which zones of High Interest, Low Interest, and Ambivalence were determined. The central issue that this paper addresses is that there is a misalignment in the topics that students find of interest to learn about, and those that their teachers find of interest to teach about. It is postulated that a better fit between curriculum and students' interests could lead to improved cognitive and affective geographical learning outcomes, as well as an increase in geography enrolments.
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- 2018
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123. An Arts-Based Curriculum Encounter: What Does It Mean to Live on This Land?
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Conrad, Diane, Jagger, Patricia, Bleeks, Victoria, and Auger, Sarah
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Our arts-based curriculum encounter occurred in a graduate course on arts-based research methods. For a class project we engaged in an inquiry on the question: "What does it mean to live on this land?" which we explored through various arts-based activities. The question challenged us to think deeply about our relationship with and responsibilities to the land we occupy. The inquiry raised for us and, in various ways, implicated us in issues around geographical settings, historical contexts, colonization and nationhood, relations as/with Indigenous peoples, Indigenous ways of knowing, relations with the natural environment, exploitation of the land, the environmental crisis, and our own family histories and personal journeys. In this paper, we share the reflective writings of four inquiry participants interspersed with some images from our work together.
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- 2018
124. Called to Action: Dialogue around Praxis for Reconciliation
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MacDonald, Jennifer and Markides, Jennifer
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Education for reconciliation is centered on renewing Indigenous-settler relations. In this article, two graduate students share their experiences as they endeavour to take up a praxis for reconciliation. Positioned by their different cultural identities, they join in a duoethnographic conversation, to reflect on their learning and to share their successes, insights, and tensions as they navigate various complexities. Through their reflective process, they ask: "What might collective enactment look like and what forms might it take in education?" As they journey together, they discuss the need for spaces that promote vulnerability and openness, and the strength of land-based and grassroots learning opportunities.
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- 2018
125. Finding a Place at Home: The TRC as a Means of (R)Evolution in Pre-Service (Science) Teacher Education
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Wiseman, Dawn
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This paper focuses on how I have been attending to the TRC's [Truth and Reconciliation Commission's] calls to action within science teacher education. It draws on personal experiences, my dissertation, Canadian policy regarding Indigenous education, and academic literature to explore what the calls ask of teacher educators. Throughout, I consider how Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, being, and doing might circulate together in specific places, and the role that "Land" and the natural world might play in reconciliation via science teacher education. Ultimately, the paper offers a still-in-process glimpse into how I have found a place at home to begin engaging with the Calls to Action of the TRC in science teacher education.
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- 2018
126. An Aggregated and Dynamic Analysis of Innovations in Campus Sustainability
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Washington-Ottombre, Camille and Bigalke, Siiri
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Purpose: This paper aims to compose a systematic understanding of campus sustainability innovations and unpack the complex drivers behind the elaboration of specific innovations. More precisely, the authors ask two fundamental questions: What are the topics and modes of implementation of campus sustainability innovations? What are the external and internal factors that drive the development of specific innovations? Design/methodology/approach: The authors code and analyze 454 innovations reported within the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS), the campus sustainability assessment tool of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Using descriptive statistics and illustrations, the paper assesses the state of environmental innovations (EIs) within STARS. Then, to evaluate the role of internal and external drivers in shaping EIs, the authors have produced classification and regression tree models. Findings: The authors' analysis shows that external and internal factors provide incentives and a favorable context for the implementation of given EIs. External drivers such as climatic zones, local income and poverty rate drive the development of several EIs. Internal drivers beyond the role of the agent of change, often primarily emphasized by past literature, significantly impact the implementation of given EIs. The authors' work also reveals that EIs often move beyond traditional mitigation approaches and the boundaries of campus. EIs create new dynamics of innovation that echo and reinforce the culture of a higher education institution. Originality/value: This work provides the first aggregated picture of EIs in the USA and Canada. It produces a new and integrated understanding of the dynamics of campus sustainability that complexifies narratives and contextualizes the role of change agents.
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- 2018
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127. Environmental Education for Forest Resources Management in Loliondo Area, Northern Tanzania
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Silisyene, Majory Kaziya
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In this dissertation, I analyze the impact of three environmental education strategies implemented in rural northern Tanzania focused on forest-related knowledge. In Chapter Five, I assess the impact of two strategies--face-to-face group discussion and mobile phone texting--on knowledge. I also compare the effectiveness of the two strategies in terms of change in knowledge among participants and cost-effectiveness. I find a positive association between environmental education and knowledge, but only for the face-to-face group discussion strategy. In Chapter Six, I assess the impact of using a photo-map (a high-resolution map made from satellite imagery) on knowledge about forest health status. Increasingly, satellite images are being used for knowledge transfer and land use planning as they facilitate visual learning. While survey data show no evidence of increased knowledge, qualitative data suggest that knowledge increased among participants. To understand the actual health status of the forest, I analyzed satellite imagery and determined how the forest's land use land cover changed between 2003 and 2014. I compared land cover results with participants' knowledge about health status. Results suggest that people's answers to the question about forest health status were politicized; participants ensured that their answers aligned with community's conservation obligations. In Chapter Seven, I assess factors that influence engagement in environmentally friendly behaviors and found that, as in previous studies, both knowledge and sense of personal responsibility are strong determinants of engagement among people in Loliondo. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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- 2018
128. Does Education for Sustainability Encourage Leopold's 'Intense Consciousness of Land'?
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Kentish, Barry and Robottom, Ian
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In Australia there has been a rapid move to an acceptance of education for sustainability as mainstream environmental education. We argue that education for sustainability, with its platform of assisting individuals in making apparently informed decisions to create a more sustainable world, is at some distance from promoting more ethically-based environmental responsibility. If environmental education is to encourage environmental responsibility, then ethically challenging curricula should provide more suitable mechanisms to encapsulate a sense of what it means to care for country, described by Leopold as "an intense consciousness of land," and foreseen decades ago with his concept of the land ethic.
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- 2008
129. Holding onto the Green Zone: A Youth Program for the Study and Stewardship of Community Riparian Areas. Leader Guide
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Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA), US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), University of Wisconsin-Extension, Reilly, Kate, and Wooster, Betsy
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Riparian ecosystems are an exciting and dynamic subject for study. These areas are valuable lands and important wildlife habitats, and they contribute greatly to the environmental health of an area. Definitions for the term "riparian" vary, but in this curriculum, the land called the "Green Zone" lies between flowing water and upland ecosystems. Vegetation and soils in this zone provide valuable services for people, livestock, water resources, wildlife, and plant species. This "Leader Guide" was written to help science teachers/youth leaders make the best use of the "Holding onto the Green Zone" Action Guide. The Leader Guide can be used to help meet these important objectives: (1) Introduce youth to the important components and functions of riparian zones as they relate to water quality and quantity, soils, vegetation, wildlife, erosion, floods, and land uses; (2) Encourage community awareness and stewardship of riparian zones; (3) Relay technical information about riparian zones in simple language and terms for nonscientists; (4) Assist young people in learning basic Earth Science concepts; (5) Help schools incorporate riparian education into the science curriculum; and (6) Promote better land use and natural resource management through increased awareness and understanding. Educating children, involving them and their communities in hands-on activities, and encouraging stewardship at the local level are critical steps toward achieving widespread riparian-zone restoration and protection. Appended are: (1) Selected Riparian Curricula, Activities, and Additional Resources; (2) "Holding onto the Green Zone " Curriculum Concept Map; (3) Correlations to Education Standards; (4) Related Internet Resources for Activities; (5) PFC Lotic Checklist; and (6) Key to Macroinvertebrate Life in the River. (Contains 19 footnotes.) [For related report, "Holding onto the Green Zone: A Youth Program for the Study and Stewardship of Community Riparian Areas. Action Guide," see ED527222.]
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- 2008
130. Indigenous Knowledge and Implications for the Sustainable Development Agenda
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Magni, Giorgia
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With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international community committed to address a great number of challenges. Among those emphasised by the SDGs, some are highly relevant for indigenous groups. Education, poverty, access to justice and climate change are only a few of the issues affecting indigenous people's lives. Yet, indigenous groups are not passive actors. Despite being at the mercy of climate hazards and misleading political decisions, the knowledge system they have developed throughout the centuries has helped them to successfully respond to ecological and development challenges. By exploring indigenous cultures and their knowledge systems in greater depth, this article aims to understand how the sustainable development agenda can benefit from these different forms of traditional knowledge. More particularly, it will attempt to explain the main notions in which traditional knowledge is rooted and analyse means of knowledge maintenance and transmission. It will then explore the relationship between indigenous knowledge, sustainable practices and land and resource management, as well as climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. These ideas will be supported by a discussion on the need to guarantee indigenous people full access to land and justice in order for them to fully realise their rights. The conclusion reflects on the importance of fostering an integrated system of knowledge in which indigenous groups are involved in knowledge sharing practices and decision making processes.
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- 2017
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131. Superintendent's Recommended FY 2009 Capital Budget and the FY 2009-2014 Capital Improvements Program
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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
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In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on years) the County Council would conduct a full review the six-year CIP and in even-numbered fiscal years (off years), the County Council only would consider amendments to the adopted CIP. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2009-2014 CIP falls in an odd-numbered fiscal year and will receive a full review by the County Council. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2009 Capital Budget and FY 2009-2014 CIP provides the recommended appropriation authority for funds needed to implement CIP projects during FY 2009 and the expenditure schedule for FY 2009-2014 CIP. This document contains the following sections: Chapter 1, "The Recommended FY 2009 Capital Budget and FY 2009-2014 Capital Improvements Program (CIP)," is a review of the major factors that have influenced the development of recommended projects to the FY 2009 Capital Budget and the FY 2009-2014 CIP. This chapter includes a table summarizing the recommended FY 2009-2014 CIP. Chapter 2, "The Planning Environment," describes the demographic, economic, and enrollment trends in Montgomery County that form the context for reviewing facility plans and addressing long-range system needs. Chapter 3, "Facility Planning Objectives," outlines seven facility planning objectives that guide the school system as it moves to accommodate enrollment growth and program changes. The objectives are discussed and placed in the context of the recommended CIP actions. Chapter 4, "Recommended Actions and Planning Issues," is arranged by high school cluster and high school consortium. This chapter provides maps depicting school boundaries and locations, a bar graph that indicates school utilization within each cluster, tables with enrollment projections, school demographic profiles, building room use, capacity data, and other facility information. Planning issues are identified, and adopted actions and recommended actions to this CIP are discussed. Chapter 5, "Countywide Projects," provides a brief summary description of the CIP projects that are programmed to meet the needs of many schools across the county. These projects involve multiyear plans with different schools scheduled each year. (Referred to as countywide projects) Several appendices, at the end of the document, contain information on a variety of topics including enrollment information, state-rated capacities, Board of Education policies, modernization schedules, available school sites, closed schools and their current use, and relocatable classroom placements. Also included are maps for identifying Board of Education, council manic, and legislative election districts. [This report was published by the Department of Communications for the Department of Facilities Management and the Division of Long-range Planning. For "Superintendent's Recommended FY 2008 Capital Budget & Amendments to the FY 2007-2012 Capital Improvements Program," see ED557693.]
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- 2007
132. Educational and Social Development in Doi Ang Khang: A Comparative Study of the Khob Dong and Nor Lae Villages
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Frost, Timothy, Gray, Lauren, Lake, John, and Roy, Jessica
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Northern Thailand is home to many hill tribes, who have lived for hundreds of years as subsistence farmers or nomadic hunters. In the 1940s, communist insurgencies drove many hill tribes from China, Burma, and other nations south into northern Thailand. Uprooted from their native lands, the hill tribes left behind ties to economic resources and, to compensate, many turned to the growth of the opium poppy as a cash crop. The growth and sale of opium endangered their lives and those of the citizens of the surrounding countries, and slash and burn farming methods resulted in environmental degradation. In 1969, the Thai government formed the Royal Projects to address this situation. The Royal Project Foundation then expanded its development efforts with the establishment of the Education and Social Development Projects (ESDPs), which seek to implement sustainable social services within the villages, and have been largely successful in hill tribe villages. The authors' research assessed the current status of the ESDPs, the causes of the program's successes and failures, and the needs of the villagers of Doi Ang Khang. The authors' study is concerned primarily with the Lahu and Palong tribes of Doi Ang Khang, which reside in the villages of Khob Dong and Nor Lae, respectively. The aim of their evaluation was to develop an understanding of why the Khob Dong village had not achieved a high level of success from the ESDPs and to recommend strategies for improving future development projects. (Contains 1 table.)
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- 2007
133. Wildlife Displacement and Dispersal Area Reduction by Human Activities within Kimana Group Ranch Corridor Near Amboseli, Kenya
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McNaught, Megan
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The Tsavo/Amboseli Ecosystem represents one of the major remaining wildlife conservation blocks in Kenya. This ecosystem consists of four protected areas which are safe havens for wildlife: Amboseli National Park, Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary, Tsavo West National Park, and Chyulu Hills. This research focused on the wildlife displacement and dispersal area reduction by human activities within Kimana Group Ranch corridor. After Kenya gained its independence in 1963 the government developed policies which encouraged nomadic peoples such as the Maasai in the Amboseli-Chyulu-Tsavo areas to live more sedentary lifestyles because pastoralism was viewed as a primitive and non-lucrative land use. As land within Kimana Group Ranch becomes developed and settled, less area is available for wildlife to disperse and migrate in the Tsavo/Amboseli ecosystem. The destruction and fragmentation of wildlife habitat due to human activities such as cultivation is the largest threat to wildlife, causing a large number of local extinctions within protected areas. The protected areas of Amboseli National Park, Kimana Sanctuary, Tsavo West National Park, and Chyulu Hills are becoming increasingly isolated islands of conservation into which an overabundance of wildlife is compressed, decreasing the biodiversity and wildlife conservation potential of the system. The objectives of this study were: (1) To determine actual areas of human activities (roads, fences, institutions and markets) as well as their associated wildlife displacement area that contribute to the shrinking of the dispersal area between Amboseli National Park, Kimana Sanctuary, and Tsavo/Chyulu Hills; (2) To establish the locations and extent of roads, fences, institutions and markets, and to map them using GIS; (3) To understand the ability of livestock and wildlife to co-exist by determining displacement distances of wildlife from different species of livestock; and (4) To establish wildlife distribution and habitat associations within Kimana Group Ranch, paying particular attention to the distribution of elephants, in order to understand displacement effects in relation to human establishments. (Contains 10 tables and 8 figures.)
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- 2007
134. Finding a Place of One's Own: Reflections on Teaching in and with Place
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Curthoys, Lesley P.
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The School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism at Lakehead University offers a third-year course on ecological literacy. The course evolved from one with a predominant scientific approach to studying the bioregion to one that embraced a broader epistemological stance, giving greater authority, voice, and presence to nearby landscapes. This essay traces the progression of an assignment designed to increase confidence, ability, and enjoyment of learning how to directly engage in reading landscape stories. Three key pedagogical changes amplified the potential of landscape as perceptible author for student learners: (1) giving place a more tangible and "knowable" quality; (2) increasing student motivation to visit "their" place more often and to stay longer; and (3) facilitating transformation from story seeker to thoughtful participant. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2007
135. CURA Reporter. Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2007
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Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. and Greco, Michael D.,
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The "CURA Reporter" is published quarterly to provide information about the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota. Items in this issue include: (1) Engaging the Northside Community: CURA and the University Northside Partnership (Thomas M. Scott and Kris S. Nelson); (2) Open House for Community-University Partnerships April 11; (3) Home Visiting At-Risk Families: The Dakota Healthy Families Program (Gay Bakken); (4) What Happens after Environmental Review? A Review of the Implementation of AUAR Mitigation (Carissa Schively); (5) Project Funding Available from CURA; (6) Searching for the Sources of Error in Child Protection: When We Make Errors, Why Are They So Hard to Correct? (Esther Wattenberg); (7) Would Reductions in Class Size Raise Minnesota Students' Test Scores? Evidence from Minnesota's Elementary Schools (Hyunkuk Cho, Paul Glewwe, and Melissa Whitler); and (8) Lectures on Emerging Issues in Soil and Water April 12.
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- 2007
136. Superintendent's Recommended FY 2008 Capital Budget & Amendments to the FY 2007-2012 Capital Improvements Program
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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
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In November 1996, the voters of Montgomery County (Maryland) approved by referendum an amendment to the County Charter that changed the County Council's review and approval cycle of the six-year Capital Improvements Program (CIP) from an annual to biennial cycle. The referendum specified that in odd-numbered fiscal years (on years) the County Council would full review the six-year CIP and in even-numbered fiscal years (off years), the County Council only would consider amendments to the adopted CIP. The FY 2007-2012 CIP received a full review and was adopted by the County Council in May 2006. The Superintendent's Recommended FY 2008 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2007-2012 CIP provides the recommended appropriation authority for funds needed to implement CIP projects during FY 2008 as well as proposed amendments to the Adopted FY 2007-2012 CIP. This document contains the following sections. Chapter 1, "The Recommended FY 2008 Capital Budget and Amendments to the FY 2007-2012 Capital Improvements Program (CIP)," a review of the major factors that have influenced the development of recommended amendments to the FY 2008 Capital Budget and the FY 2007-2012 CIP. This chapter includes a table summarizing the recommended Amendments to the FY 2007-2012 CIP. Chapter 2, "The Planning Environment," describes the demographic, economic, and enrollment trends in Montgomery County that form the context for reviewing facility plans and addressing long-range system needs. Chapter 3, "Facility Planning Objectives," outlines seven facility planning objectives that guide the school system at it moves to accommodate enrollment growth and program changes. The objectives are discussed and placed in the context of the recommended CIP actions. Chapter 4, "Recommended Actions and Planning Issues," is arranged by high school cluster and high school consortium. This chapter provides maps depicting school boundaries and locations, a bar graph that indicates school utilization within each cluster, tables with enrollment projections, school demographic profiles, building room use, capacity data, and other facility information. Planning issues are identified, and adopted actions and recommended amendments to the adopted CIP are discussed. Chapter 5, "Countywide Projects," provides a brief summary description of the CIP projects that are programmed to meet the needs of many schools across the county. These projects involve multiyear plans with different schools scheduled each year. Several appendices, at the end of the document, contain information on a variety of topics including enrollment information, state-rated capacities, Board of Education policies, modernization schedules, available school sites, closed schools and their current use, and relocatable classroom placements. Also included are maps for identifying Board of Education, council manic, and legislative election districts. [This report was published by the Department of Communications for the Department of Facilities Management and the Division of Long-range Planning.]
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- 2006
137. Federal Highway Administration University Course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation. Publication No. FHWA-HRT-05-133
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Federal Highway Administration (DOT), Turner, Shawn, Sandt, Laura, and Toole, Jennifer
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This "Student Workbook" contains 24 lessons of resource material that is intended for use in university courses on bicycle and pedestrian transportation. The lessons span a wide range of topics including an introduction to bicycling and walking issues, planning and designing for bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and supporting elements and programs. This is the second edition of the "Student Workbook"; the first edition was published as Report No. FHWA-RD-99-198. Lesson-based slideshows (scripted slideshows for all 24 lessons) and an overview lecture (a scripted slideshow for a one- or two-lecture overview in existing undergraduate or graduate transportation courses) are also available to assist in course development and delivery. The key learning outcomes in the course material are as follows: (1) Students should recognize the legitimacy of the bicycle and pedestrian modes in a balanced transportation system; (2) Students should understand how policy, planning, and engineering practices can be improved to create a more balanced transportation system; and (3) Students should be familiar with basic policies, practices, tools, and design principles and know how to use them to create bicycle and pedestrian-friendly communities. Individual lessons contain references and additional resources. References and additional resources are provided at the end of each lesson. (Contains 262 figures and 35 tables.) [Cover title varies: "FHWA University Course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation: Student Workbook." This document was produced for the Office of Safety Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration. For related technical brief, see ED511673.]
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- 2006
138. Fostering Public Engagement in Local Land Use Planning and Zoning Recodification Projects: A Case Study from the University of Wisconsin--Extension, Lincoln County
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Cadwallader, Thomas K. and Lersch, Arthur D.
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This study outlines the processes used by University of Wisconsin--Extension, Lincoln County (UWELC), educators over an eight-year period to facilitate the development of a county land use plan and to guide committees through a review of the new proposed county zoning ordinances based on that plan. As a partner in these projects, UWELC helped create a model of public participation for other counties and municipalities conducting land use planning based on Wisconsin's comprehensive planning law passed in October 1999. UWELC educators drew on the expertise of University of Wisconsin system faculty based outside Lincoln County to provide information about land use and zoning issues.
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- 2006
139. Have 3D, Will Travel
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Duncan, Mike R., Birrell, Bob, and Williams, Toni
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Virtual Reality (VR) is primarily a visual technology. Elements such as haptics (touch feedback) and sound can augment an experience, but the visual cues are the prime driver of what an audience will experience from a VR presentation. At its inception in 2001 the Centre for Advanced Visualization (CFAV) at Niagara College of Arts and Technology was equipped with state-of-the-art VR technology. The computer, screen and sound system were all arranged into a "Reality Centre" (RC). The reality centre was an SGI concept that saw VR being used in order to bring disparate groups of engineers together on a project so that they could talk together while they explored their data using VR technology. CFAV's first big project involved the Peace Bridge between Fort Erie and Buffalo. The target was to build a model of Fort Erie and Buffalo with sufficient detail that lay-people would be able to evaluate any new bridges, or proposed changes to the old bridge. CFAV's engagement in the Peace Bridge project introduced the facility to a new kind of partner, the land use planner. A land use planner is an engineer or architect, etc. who must explain their intent or changes to a public site or piece of infrastructure to the public. CFAV's technology has now changed to the extent that it uses conventional modeling tools and off-the-shelf technology to produce its presentations.
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- 2005
140. The Influence of Selected Wilderness Experience Programs in Changing Participant Attitudes toward Wilderness Purism, Privacy, and Tolerated Encounters (a Pilot Study).
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Simon, Mark
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The 1964 Wilderness Act was legislated to protect and maintain a portion of the nation's remaining wild areas as they were during pre-settlement times. In part, the intent was to provide the opportunity for primitive forms of recreation in surroundings where wilderness can be experienced on its own terms. However, overuse and related resource degradation have resulted in the loss of the primeval character of many wilderness areas, decreasing the opportunity for solitude. Solitude is specifically mentioned in the Wilderness Act as a critical component of wilderness. A study explored the effects of wilderness experience programs (WEP) on feelings of purism, privacy, and tolerated encounters. Pre- and posttests were administered to 42 college students who participated in a short-term WEP (about 5 days) and 64 participants in a long-term WEP (10-plus days). Pretest data did not show a relationship between participant concern for solitude and the number of encounters participants would tolerate and still consider their trip a wilderness experience. However, posttest data indicated that following a field experience, participant concern for solitude was significantly related to unwillingness to tolerate encounters with others in the wilderness. These results suggest that WEPs emphasizing wilderness education may effectively influence course participants to become a more educated wildland user constituency and to support use limits and other resource protection measures. (TD)
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- 2003
141. A Kentucky Journey--The Land and the People. Teacher's Guide.
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Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
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This guide to the core exhibit of the Kentucky History Center (Frankfort) focuses on the relationship between Kentuckians and the land. The guide extracts text from the exhibit's eight chronological areas and lists environments, displays, and other exhibit features to help students understand the ways people have settled, farmed, mined, and otherwise interacted with the land for the state's 12,000-year history. Although parts of the exhibit include more material than others, interaction with the land is a persistent theme. It is divided into three sections: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Diagram of 'A Kentucky Journey'"; and (3) "Exhibit Guides" (Area B: First Kentuckians; Area C: Kentucky Frontier; Area D: Antebellum Age; Area E: War and Aftermath; Area F: Continuity and Change; Area G: A New Century; Area H: Depression and War; Area I: Many Sides of Kentucky). (BT)
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- 2002
142. Picture This Curriculum.
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Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS. and Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS.
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This curriculum packet of teacher-developed lesson plans, intended for use with students in middle and/or high schools, focuses on student involvement in community projects. The first lesson plan, "Physics Park" (Scott McQuerry), aims for students to construct a playground and the examine the physics behind the playground's equipment. Students use the map and picture found on this lesson's Web site as a resource in the playground's construction. The lesson plan suggests time allotment; provides an overview; indicates subject matter; cites learning objectives; addresses standards and Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) components; notes materials needed; describes preparation time for teachers; presents an introductory activity, a learning activity, and a culminating activity; discusses evaluation/teacher reflection; suggest cross-curricular extensions and community connections, and contains a sample grid pattern, a photo of the playground area, seven images, and additional information and activities. The second lesson plan, "Comparing Edible Communities" (Scott McQuerry), has students explore the components of a community by creating analogies between aspects of a community and ingredients within a recipe. They demonstrate the cohesion among community areas as they attempt to create cookies from recipes that have missing ingredients. The second lesson plan offers the same type of detailed procedures for classroom implementation as the first lesson plan. (Contains 6 recipes, 3 slide photos, and 16 images.) (BT)
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- 2002
143. Box City Curriculum.
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Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS. and Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS.
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This curriculum packet contains two lesson plans about cities and architecture intended for use with students in upper elementary grades and middle schools. The first lesson plan, "City People, City Stories" (Jan Ham), states that understanding architecture and cities must begin with an understanding of the people of the city. The children create scale Box City citizens and create, develop, write, and share stories about those citizens. The lesson plan suggests time allotment; provides an overview; indicates subject matter; cites learning objectives; addresses standards and Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) components; notes materials needed; describes preparation time for teachers; presents an introductory activity, a learning activity, and a culminating activity; discusses evaluation/teacher reflection; suggests cross-curricular extensions and community connections, and contains a "Houses in Books" resource list, scale figures information, a scale ruler, and character type information. The second lesson, "Grid It, Map It" (Jan Ham), continues the "Box City" activity. It states that, once a Box City is built, groups of children use bodies and string to grid the city and map sections of the city. It notes that the activity invented itself over the course of several gym-sized Box Cities in New England towns, where many town layouts are based on the area's varied topography. The second lesson plan offers the same type of detailed procedures for classroom implementation as the first lesson plan. Contains the scale ruler, a sample grid, and a grid example. (BT)
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- 2002
144. Community Connection Curriculum.
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Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS. and Center for Understanding the Built Environment, Prairie Village, KS.
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This curriculum packet contains two teacher-developed lesson plans, for use in the upper elementary grades, which focus on urban life. The first lesson plan, "Connecting Downtown" (Michael Gray), studies how engineering and design can make cities more efficient places. It provides a brief discussion on how people travel within large urban cores, such as using integrated walkway systems. The lesson plan suggests a time allotment; provides an overview; indicates subject matter; cites learning objectives; addresses standards and Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) components; notes materials needed; describes preparation time for teachers; presents an introductory activity, a learning activity, and a culminating activity; discusses evaluation/teacher reflection; suggests cross-curricular extensions and community connections, and contains nine images. The second lesson plan, "My Flag for the Future" (Michael Gray), aims for students to reclaim the symbol of their hometown by creating a new crest or logo students, working in teams of two or three. The second lesson plan offers the same type of detailed procedures for classroom implementation as the first lesson plan. Contains six images. (BT)
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- 2002
145. Currents and Undercurrents: An Administrative History of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
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National Park Service (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC., McKay, Kathryn L., Renk, Nancy F., McKay, Kathryn L., Renk, Nancy F., and National Park Service (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC.
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The 1,259-mile Columbia River flows out of Canada and across eastern Washington state, forming the border between Washington and Oregon. In 1941 the federal government dammed the Columbia River at the north end of Grand Coulee, creating a man-made reservoir named Lake Roosevelt that inundated homes, farms, and businesses, and disrupted the lives of many. Although Congress never enacted specific authorization to create a park, it passed generic legislation that gave the Park Service authority at the National Recreation Area (NRA). Lake Roosevelt's shoreline totals more than 500 miles of cliffs and gentle slopes. The Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (LARO) was officially created in 1946. This historical study documents the long and complex story of the establishment of LARO and how it has been managed since its creation. Following informational materials and an introduction, the study's chapters are: (1)"When Rivers Ran Free"; (2) "The River Becomes a Lake"; (3) "A Long Road Lies Ahead: Establishing Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area"; (4) "Agreements and Disagreements: From Tri-Party Agreement to Multi-Party Agreement"; (6) "Family Vacation Lake: Recreation Planning and Management"; (7) "Building and Maintaining the Park: Administrative and Visitor Facilities"; (8) "Changing Stories: Interpretation"; (9) "From Simple to Complex: Cultural Resources Management"; (10) "An Uphill Struggle: Natural Resources Management"; (11) "Regaining Ground: Leases and Special Use Permits"; and (12) "Echoes of the Past: Future Issues." Includes seven appendices and an extensive bibliography. (BT)
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- 2002
146. Building Better Rural Places: Federal Programs for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, Conservation and Community Development.
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Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC., Michael Fields Agricultural Inst., East Troy, WI., Berton, Valerie, and Butler, Jennifer
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This guide is written for those seeking help from federal programs to foster innovative enterprises in agriculture and forestry in the United States. The guide describes program resources in value-added and diversified agriculture and forestry, sustainable land management, and community development. Programs are included based upon whether they offer significant funding or technical assistance. The guide is organized by the type of assistance and resources that federal programs offer to support agricultural and forestry innovations. Sections cover: (1) research, information, new technologies, and extension education; (2) financing; (3) business management (including small farmer training); (4) marketing; (5) land and resource management and conservation; and (6) community and rural development. Along with a general overview of each resource, the guide explains what each program offers, gives specific examples of how the program has actually supported such work, describes uses and restrictions, presents eligibility information, and gives contact information. Additional programs, whose relevance may be limited to a small audience, can be found in a special section. The final section presents general information resources, including the Consumer Information Center and Catalog, the National Agricultural Library Information Resource Centers, and the USDA Rural Development Offices. (TD)
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- 2001
147. Saugus Iron Works: Life and Work at an Early American Industrial Site. Teaching with Historic Places.
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National Park Service (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. National Register of Historic Places. and Whitman, Maryann
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In 1948 archeologists verified that a now overgrown and urbanized landscape along the Saugus River (Massachusetts) was the site of the Saugus Iron Works from 1646 until 1648. That discovery led to a careful, though partly conjectural, reconstruction of the first successful integrated ironmaking plant in the colonial America. The early Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony needed an ironmaking factory to make tools and utensils for house building. Ironmasters recruited skilled and unskilled workers from the ironmaking regions in England. The reconstruction of the Saugus Iron Works helps people imagine the daily life of these early European settlers. This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, and primary documents from archives at the site. The lesson can be used in teaching units on the life and culture of the colonial United States, archeology, settlements and use of the land, or the history of technology. It is divided into eight sections: "About This Lesson"; "Getting Started: Inquiry Question"; "Setting the Stage: Historical Context"; "Locating the Site: Maps" (Saugus, Massachusetts and Surrounding Area; South Part of New England, 1634); "Determining the Facts: Readings" (An Ironworks in New England; An Ironworks Community); "Visual Evidence: Images" (Map of Saugus, Lynn and Nahant; Materials and Techniques for Making Iron; Excavation at the Saugus Site; Artifact Found at Saugus; Reconstructed Ironworks Buildings; Artists' Conception of Saugus Ironworks); "Putting It All Together: Activities" (Archeology; Researching Industries in the Local Community); and "Supplementary Resources." (BT)
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- 2001
148. Stories from an Appalachian Community.
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Schumacher (E. F.) Society, Great Barrington, MA. and Cirillo, Marie
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Fifty-one years of working in Appalachia on land resettlement and preservation of local values have taught Marie Cirillo the importance of not thinking in terms of either/or. It is not science/technology versus indigenous knowledge; it is how one connects the two so there can be proper balance. It is not capital versus labor; it is not commercialism versus do-it-yourself production; it is not poverty or wealth; it is not rural life or urban life. It is both/and. A consistent ethic is needed to support a holistic vision for Earth that values the diversity of its parts. As the industrial society changes into that which comes next, we need to keep connected as we try to find our new interactive relationship with Earth. Cirillo's tasks are to focus on population migrations and the impact they have on governance and land tenure; find allies; work for cooperative land reform and planning that serves urban, agricultural, and wilderness needs; and make Appalachia a place where both rural and urban people can learn. Community-based organizations cooperating with colleges can implement service learning and participatory research that breaks down barriers of class and place while developing a sense of interrelatedness. We must remember that rural resources are essential to building cities. It will take wise people to keep these resources healthy and productive. (TD)
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- 2000
149. Rural Development Issues in the Northeast: 2000-2005. Working Paper.
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Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, University Park, PA. and Goetz, Stephan J.
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This paper examines social and economic forces affecting rural areas at the beginning of the 21st century and lists potential strategies to cope with those concerns. Rural development is necessary to place rural and urban areas on a more equal footing, compensate for the youth "brain drain," preserve the retirement-option value, relieve urban congestion and achieve optimal population distribution, accommodate rural living preferences, bring jobs to rural people, protect family farms, and assist the 12 percent of the Northeast population that is not participating in the current economic boom. Rural development trends and concerns include the widening rural-to-urban income gap, the increasing pressure on natural resources from urban sprawl and other land uses, and the challenges to small units of local government presented by federal devolution. Current and emerging actionable rural development issues facing the Northeast are grouped into three broad categories: community economic and social development, environmental issues, and local governance and the development of community leaders. Subdivisions of these categories related to educational needs, entrepreneurship, leadership development, and the links between environmental quality and economic growth are presented in question form, and readers are asked to identify the single most important issue that the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development should address and what, specifically, the Center should do to address this issue. (TD)
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- 2000
150. Turning First Nation Forest Values into Integrated Forest Management Plans: Two Models in Alberta.
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Natcher, David and Hickey, Cliff
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Canada's federal and provincial governments have called upon the forest industry to ensure protection of Aboriginal rights and include Aboriginal communities in forest management. The challenge is to design frameworks for multi-party cooperation in which multiple values and interests can be accommodated. To promote such cooperation, two research projects focused on establishing mechanisms to apply Aboriginal knowledge to industrial forest management, providing community training and capacity building to facilitate the equitable involvement of Aboriginal communities, and establishing a framework to monitor and evaluate First Nation-industry cooperation. A project involving the Alexis First Nation of Treaty Six, Millar Western Forest Products, and the Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN) (University of Alberta) conducted an Aboriginal land use study while training community members to continue the research; developed an information sharing agreement concerned with access to and use of community knowledge; developed a forestry curriculum and related career education for Alexis high school students; implemented community training and employment programs; and developed a mechanism to monitor the community-industry partnership and resolve conflicts. In the second project, the Little Red River and Tall Cree First Nations and the SFMN identified community attitudes and values regarding forest management, wildlife management, training and employment needs, and protection of subsistence activities and related them to forest management objectives. (SV)
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- 2000
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