The rising interest in environmental literacy and education for sustainability has created expectations that timely, accurate content should be taught to the primary, secondary as well as teacher education curriculum. The learning context should provide opportunities for students to develop critical thinking skill, problem solving and values. Project-based learning approaches that emphasize student learning may be a key to the successful development of good citizenship. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a project-based learning on students' environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. As part of the course requirements students were asked to develop a web-quest on climate change and to identify suitable topics in the curriculum for the integration of climate change. The topic on climate change was chosen since global climate change is a challenging topic to teach and learn and the teaching is flawed through omission, simplification and misrepresentation. A .....

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The rising interest in environmental literacy and education for sustainability has created  expectations that timely, accurate content should be taught to the primary, secondary as well as  teacher education curriculum. The learning context should provide opportunities for students to  develop critical thinking skill, problem solving and values. Project-based learning approaches that  emphasize student learning may be a key to the successful development of good citizenship. The  purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a project-based learning on students'  environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. As part of the course requirements students were  asked to develop a web-quest on climate change and to identify-suitable topics in the curriculum  for the integration of climate change.  The topic on climate change was chosen since global climate  change is a challenging topic to teach and learn and the teaching is flawed through omission,  simplifi.....

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This research involved developing, implementing and evaluating Problem Based Learning (PBL) designs in the context of Malaysian teacher education. As a relatively new teaching and learning approach in the Malaysian higher education landscape, the student-centered learning such as the PBL has posed challenges since the approach was too different from the demands and constraints of contextual needs, i.e Malaysian teacher education. With regards to this challenge, the proposed PBL designs have been adjusted to suit the Malaysian teacher education. Putting forward the above issues, the researcher has adopted Design Based Research (DBR) as the research methodology due to its principles that strive to make learning research more contextually relevant. In particular, the method addresses the needs and norms of a local context, which has led to research findings that are scientifically trustworthy and useful in practical sense. DBR emphasises synergistic relationship between researching, desig.....

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