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Carol Elsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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Alexandra Schindel Dimick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • student empowerment in an Environmental Science classroom toward a framework for social justice Science education
    Science Education, 2012
    Co-Authors: Alexandra Schindel Dimick
    Abstract:

    Social justice education is undertheorized in Science education. Given the wide range of goals and purposes proposed within both social justice education and social justice Science education scholarship, these fields require reconciliation. In this paper, I suggest a student empowerment framework for conceptualizing teaching and learning social justice Science education in classroom settings. I utilize this framework to analyze the case study of a high school Environmental Science classroom in the United States where the teacher and students created Environmental action projects that were relevant to their community. I examine how social, political, and academic empowerment were or were not enacted within the classroom and argue for educators to give heed to all three simultaneously to mediate student empowerment while working toward social justice Science education. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 96: 990–1012, 2012

Alan E Gelfand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a future for models and data in Environmental Science
    Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2006
    Co-Authors: James S Clark, Alan E Gelfand
    Abstract:

    Together, graphical models and the Bayesian paradigm provide powerful new tools that promise to change the way that Environmental Science is done. The capacity to merge theory with mechanistic understanding and empirical evidence, to assimilate diverse sources of information and to accommodate complexity will transform the collection and interpretation of data. As we discuss here, we specifically expect a shift from a focus on simple experiments with inflexible design and selection among models that embrace parts of processes to a synthesis of integrated process models. With this potential come new challenges, including some that are specific and technical and others that are general and will involve reexamination of the role of inference and prediction.

Nick Winder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • On the Design of Computer-Based Models for Integrated Environmental Science
    Environmental Management, 2005
    Co-Authors: Brian S. Mcintosh, Paul Jeffrey, Mark Lemon, Nick Winder
    Abstract:

    The current research agenda in Environmental Science is dominated by calls to integrate Science and policy to better understand and manage links between social (human) and natural (nonhuman) processes. Freshwater resource management is one area where such calls can be heard. Designing computer-based models for integrated Environmental Science poses special challenges to the research community. At present it is not clear whether such tools, or their outputs, receive much practical policy or planning application. It is argued that this is a result of (1) a lack of appreciation within the research modeling community of the characteristics of different decision-making processes including policy, planning, and (2) participation, (3) a lack of appreciation of the characteristics of different decision-making contexts, (4) the technical difficulties in implementing the necessary support tool functionality, and (5) the socio-technical demands of designing tools to be of practical use. This article presents a critical synthesis of ideas from each of these areas and interprets them in terms of design requirements for computer-based models being developed to provide scientific information support for policy and planning. Illustrative examples are given from the field of freshwater resources management. Although computer-based diagramming and modeling tools can facilitate processes of dialogue, they lack adequate simulation capabilities. Component-based models and modeling frameworks provide such functionality and may be suited to supporting problematic or messy decision contexts. However, significant technical (implementation) and socio-technical (use) challenges need to be addressed before such ambition can be realized.