Canadian Journal of Environmental Education: Call for Papers

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Canadian Journal of Environmental Education

Call for Papers for Volume 14, 2009

Inquiries into Practice

Volume 14 of the Canadian Journal of Environmental Education aims to highlight the work of practitioners engaged in inquiring into practices of environmental education. Inviting contributions from K-12 education, post-secondary and adult education, community-based organizations, and other venues and locations of environmental education practice, this issue hopes to encourage critical and empathetic inquiry into the understandings and assumptions we work with, blind spots and hoped for future directions in our work, and possible generative dialogues and collaborations. Particularly in the face of the recent upsurge in popular support for environmental concerns in Canada and around the globe, and a growing awareness of relationships with social issues and cultural contexts within environmental education, it seems timely to take a careful and thoughtful look at our individual and collective practices. We also look forward to bringing together this issue of the journal in time to continue the conversation at the 5^th World Environmental Education Congress in Montreal, 10-14 May, 2009. We hope you will join us in inquiring into lessons learned, things unconsidered, challenges faced, and possible new directions for environmental education practice.

In the spirit of collaborative inquiry, CJEE would be happy to help facilitate writing partnerships between interested parties—if you have an idea and would like to discuss it or possibly be connected with a writing partner or team, please contact the guest editors. In order to publish this issue prior to the World Congress, the deadline for submissions is July 2008.

Please contact guest editors with expressions of interest and articles for review:

Marcia McKenzie

Department of Educational Foundations

College of Education

28 Campus Drive

Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0X1

Canada, 306.966.7551

marcia.mckenzie@usask.ca

David A. Gruenewald

Department of Teaching and Learning

College of Education

Washington State University

Pullman, WA, 996164-2132

USA, 509.335.9188

greenwood@wsu.edu.

Invasive Species Funding

Funding through the IASPP is available for projects that address the threat of aquatic invasive species, terrestrial invasive alien plants and plant pests, and invasive alien animals. Projects supported by the program will:

• reduce the introduction and spread of IAS and address their pathways of invasion through prevention, detection, and management (eradication, containment, and control) activities;
• enable Canadians to become actively involved in projects that address the threat of IAS; and
• improve Canadians' understanding and awareness of IAS and the individual actions and choices which contribute to their introduction and spread.

http://www.recovery.gc.ca/IASPP-PPEEE/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.main&lang=E

BC Curriculum >> EE Planning Guide>>Exciting News for Yukon Teachers!

Website: URL for planning guide: www.bced.gov.bc.ca/environment_ed No matter what we’re learning in school, there is often, if not always, some connection to the environment. That’s the premise of a new environmental education planning guide whose lead author is David Zandvliet, an associate professor of science and environmental education in Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Education. The British Columbia Ministry of Education commissioned Zandvliet and other education experts to research and write Environmental Learning and Experience: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Teachers. Compiled over 16 months and based on interviews with educators in several school districts, the planning guide explains how Zandvliet and his research partners are enriching the environmental education content in K to 12 courses.

First, Zandvliet and his research partners are helping a team of K-12 teachers map the environmental content of existing courses in the education ministry’s mandated curriculum. Then, they will apply previously developed principles embodied in the metaphor C.A.R.E. to evaluate and integrate the mapped content into new or revised courses on the environment. C.A.R.E. stands for: Complexity: The examination of the complexity and interrelatedness of natural and human-created systems and human interaction with those systems. Aesthetics: The study of nature to develop students’ aesthetic appreciation of the environment. Responsibility: The study of a variety of disciplines, such as geography, history and technology, to foster student awareness of the impact of personal, community, societal and global decisions on the environment. Ethics:

The engagement of students in the ethical evaluation of choices and decisions underlying consumption and lifestyle patterns, technological change, population control and other hot button issues affecting the environment. The provincial ministry of education has contracted Zandvliet to lead three professional workshops to help teachers plan direct environmental experiences and enrich students’ evaluation of those experiences. “There’s a whole body of literature,” says Zandvliet, “on how direct experience affects observation, reflection and decision-making about environmental issues.”

The first workshop was held at the Vancouver Outdoor School in Brackendale on the North Shore on November 17 and 18. Two more workshops are planned: one on Vancouver Island in January and another in the Interior in March. SFU’s Learning & Instructional Development centre is helping Zandvliet put together a DVD of the workshops as a multi-media complement to the education ministry’s new report.

Le Grand Prix du Circuit vert

L’organisation des Prix canadiens de l'environnement vous invite à participer au Grand Prix du Circuit vert 2008!

Le Grand Prix du Circuit vert récompense des projets scolaires axés sur la protection, la conservation et la restauration de l’environnement au Canada. S’il se fait quelque chose de grand pour l’environnement à votre école, parlez-nous-en, et vous pourriez gagner un prix de 2 500 $ du Groupe Financier Banque TD en guise de soutien à un projet écologique à votre école. Cinq autres gagnants dans les catégories Cadets et Ados recevront un caméscope numérique offert par Panasonic Canada. Toutes les écoles participantes recevront un abonnement d’un an à Canadian Geographic.

Les grands gagnants dans les catégories Cadets et Ados seront invités au gala des Prix canadiens de l’environnement à Toronto, le 2 juin 2008.

Pour en savoir davantage ou pour présenter un projet écologique, cliquez www.canadiangeographic.ca/pce2008

Le Grand Prix du Circuit vert se termine le 1^er mars 2008.

Green Team Challenge recognizes school-based projects

The Canadian Environment Awards invites you to join The Green Team Challenge 2008!

The Green Team Challenge recognizes school-based projects that are protecting, preserving and restoring Canada’s environment. Tell us how your class or environmental club is bringing a green dream to life, and you could win $2,500 from TD Bank Financial Group to support an environmental initiative at your school. Five runners-up in each of the Junior and Senior categories will receive digital video camcorders from Panasonic Canada. All participating schools receive a year-long subscription to Canadian Geographic.

The Junior and Senior Grand Prize winners will be invited to attend the Canadian Environment Awards Gala on June 2, 2008, in Toronto.

For complete details or to post your green game plan, visit http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cea2008/gt.asp

The Green Team Challenge closes on March 1, 2008