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  • Exceeding the standards: The benefits of place-based environmental education in schools

    Creator:
    Miller, Rebecca W.
    Abstract:
    There is a growing body of research that describes the benefits of place-based environmental education (EE) within the schools, including improved competencies, better interpersonal skills, decreased gaps in social divides, increased pupil engagement in learning, increased community awareness, and increased environmental stewardship. Though the benefits are many, few schools utilize...
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    Capstone Project
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    local businesses were pioneers in recruiting students for science and industry fields, other states

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

    Creator:
    Bruno, Mark P.
    Abstract:
    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Cascade foothills, roughly 20 miles (35 km) southeast of the city of Eugene. The pioneers of this