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Clifford Knapp

Northern Illinois University, Department of Teaching and Learning, Faculty Member

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Strong interests in Outdoor and Environmental and Place-based Education and Indigenous Wisdom. Long experience in conducting workshops in Humanizing the field with emphasis upon group dynamics and human relations skills. Passionate about the pioneering naturalists such as Burroughs, Muir, Thoreau, Carson, and Comstock.

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School Ground Deserts Can Flower

Sci Children, 1970

Teaching Environmental Education With a Focus on Values

Helping students to develop their own environmental values and internalizing the valuing process ... more Helping students to develop their own environmental values and internalizing the valuing process are the topics highlighted in this article. Values-clarification techniques are enumerated, based on the belief that valuing involves processes of choosing, prizing, and acting. To help students clarify their values about the environment, while they are learning the valuing processes, several teaching strategies are suggested. These involve: (1) composing value sheets for student reaction, (2) writing captions for pictures depicting environmental problems, (3) role-playing, (4) creating contrived incidents to stimulate discussion on controversial environmental issues, (5) employing a devil's advocate approach as developing plausible reasons defending various pollution practices and then justifying the position, (6) constructing value continuums, (7) responding to open-ended questions, (8) keeping a time diary for a week, (9) designing an autobiographical questionnaire, (10) voting on current issues, (11) rank-ordering environmental words, statements, and/or problems, and (12) coding phrases, statements, or essays indicating the writer's stand for or against an environmental situation. Teaching environmental education with a focus on values is believed to be not only a stimulating but a necessary approach for today's generation. (BL)

Just beyond the Classroom: Community Adventures for Interdisciplinary Learning

Exploring the Power of Solo, Silence, and Solitude

Association For Experiential Education, 2005

... The following essays are presented: (1) Going Outside to Go Inside: Frameworks for the Solo E... more

Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches. ERIC Digest

Conservation Education: Problems and Strategies

Sci Teacher, 1969

The Value of Values Clarification: A Reaction to the Critics

Journal of Environmental Education, 1981

Escaping the Gender Trap: The Ultimate Challenge for Experiential Educators

Journal of Experiential Education, 1985

Thinking in Outdoor Inquiry. ERIC Digest

Another Model of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Taproot, 1998

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach," by Howard Gardner [Book Review]

Journal of Experiential Education, 1994

Humanizing Environmental Education: A Guide for Leading Nature and Human Nature Activities

This is a guide to leading nature and human nature activities in camp and other learning situatio... more

Developing an Environmental Ethic: A Values Education Model

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00368121 1980 9957883, Jul 30, 2010

The Science and Art of Processing Outdoor Experiences

Outdoor Communicator, 1985

Beyond a Philosophy of Outdoor Environmental Education

Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, Apr 1, 1981

EJ244856 - Beyond a Philosophy of Outdoor Environmental Education.

Bulletin Boards for Environmental Studies

Conducting a Field Trip Organizational Patterns for Instruction

Sci Children, 1970

The Slope of the Land

Sci Children, 1969

The 2009 Kurt Hahn Address: Seeking Deeper Understandings from Experiences

Journal of Experiential Education, 2010

Exploring the Outdoors with Young People

Science and Children, Oct 1, 1979

School Ground Deserts Can Flower

Sci Children, 1970

Teaching Environmental Education With a Focus on Values

Helping students to develop their own environmental values and internalizing the valuing process ... more Helping students to develop their own environmental values and internalizing the valuing process are the topics highlighted in this article. Values-clarification techniques are enumerated, based on the belief that valuing involves processes of choosing, prizing, and acting. To help students clarify their values about the environment, while they are learning the valuing processes, several teaching strategies are suggested. These involve: (1) composing value sheets for student reaction, (2) writing captions for pictures depicting environmental problems, (3) role-playing, (4) creating contrived incidents to stimulate discussion on controversial environmental issues, (5) employing a devil's advocate approach as developing plausible reasons defending various pollution practices and then justifying the position, (6) constructing value continuums, (7) responding to open-ended questions, (8) keeping a time diary for a week, (9) designing an autobiographical questionnaire, (10) voting on current issues, (11) rank-ordering environmental words, statements, and/or problems, and (12) coding phrases, statements, or essays indicating the writer's stand for or against an environmental situation. Teaching environmental education with a focus on values is believed to be not only a stimulating but a necessary approach for today's generation. (BL)

Just beyond the Classroom: Community Adventures for Interdisciplinary Learning

Exploring the Power of Solo, Silence, and Solitude

Association For Experiential Education, 2005

... The following essays are presented: (1) Going Outside to Go Inside: Frameworks for the Solo E... more

Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches. ERIC Digest

Conservation Education: Problems and Strategies

Sci Teacher, 1969

The Value of Values Clarification: A Reaction to the Critics

Journal of Environmental Education, 1981

Escaping the Gender Trap: The Ultimate Challenge for Experiential Educators

Journal of Experiential Education, 1985

Thinking in Outdoor Inquiry. ERIC Digest

Another Model of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Taproot, 1998

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach," by Howard Gardner [Book Review]

Journal of Experiential Education, 1994

Humanizing Environmental Education: A Guide for Leading Nature and Human Nature Activities

This is a guide to leading nature and human nature activities in camp and other learning situatio... more

Developing an Environmental Ethic: A Values Education Model

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00368121 1980 9957883, Jul 30, 2010

The Science and Art of Processing Outdoor Experiences

Outdoor Communicator, 1985

Beyond a Philosophy of Outdoor Environmental Education

Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, Apr 1, 1981

EJ244856 - Beyond a Philosophy of Outdoor Environmental Education.

Bulletin Boards for Environmental Studies

Conducting a Field Trip Organizational Patterns for Instruction

Sci Children, 1970

The Slope of the Land

Sci Children, 1969

The 2009 Kurt Hahn Address: Seeking Deeper Understandings from Experiences

Journal of Experiential Education, 2010

Exploring the Outdoors with Young People

Science and Children, Oct 1, 1979