financed by the“Healthy Waters:Identification,Elimination,Social Awareness,and Education of Water Chemical and Biological Micropollutants With Health and Environmental Implications"Project(NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000069);co-financed by the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte(NORTE 2020),Portugal 2020,and FEDER;supported by national funds from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology,IP(FCT),under multiyear funding awarded to CIIE(Grant No.UIDB/00167/2020 and Grant No.UIDP/00167/2020);FCT funding for his contract,established under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Program(Grant No.CEECIND/02115/2018).
Purpose:This study analyzes the contributions of the Healthy Waters educational program to the awareness and understanding of environmental issues related to water to generate changes in attitudes in the community.Des...
Purpose:This conceptual paper aims to interrogate the current epistemological and cross-cultural approaches used to conceptualize climate change(CC)education,to critically point out ineffective approaches and false as...
funded by Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico(FONDECYT)(project numbers 1210264 and 1211920).
Purpose:This study aimed to describe the knowledge and alternative conceptions of climate change in a group of Chilean science and non-science teachers with different teaching experiences.Design/Approach/Methods:The s...
Purpose:This study draws on Bruno Latour's work,Down to Earth:Politics in the New Climatic Regime,to re-imagine issues of climate change in K-12 science teaching and learning."Re-turning"to a dwelling place can become...
Purpose:With climate change education becoming more prevalent in schools around the globe,it is increasingly important that we understand parental perspectives on this topic.Children cross the boundaries between home ...
School-based mindfulness programming(SBMP)has become increasingly common in K-12 school settings.In parallel with this growth,there has been rapidly increasing research into this new topic of scientific inquiry.To ill...
supported by a Mind and Life Institute 1440 Award to the senior author Joshua C.Felver.
Purpose:Stress is a risk factor for poor educational achievement and health.Mindfulness-based programming(MBP)is a viable technology for reducing stress,and Mindful Stress Buffering theory suggests that the benefits o...
supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse(T32DA017629 and T32DA007250)。
Purpose:School teachers show higher levels of internalized distress compared to those in many other professions.In two exploratory studies,we examine the relative and interactive impacts of mindfulness training(MT)and...
Purpose:Research of mindfulness-based programming/interventions(MBP)for youth has proliferated in recent years;however,heterogeneity of MBP for youth impede determination of optimal programmatic structure across devel...
Purpose:This study examined the effectiveness of a I2-week mindfulness curriculum for at-risk,urban adolescents.Of particular interest was whether participation in the intervention was associated with gains in self-re...