Water Quality: The Next Generation Promoting Environmental Careers Through Innovative Education Programs

Soni, Rupam; Selna, Michael W.; Maguin, Stephen R.; Haworth, Joseph

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“…However, most communities around the world have insufficient numbers of researchers to collect that data, let alone the funds to pay them. In the US, Soni, Selna, Maguin and Haworth (2007) argue that there is an urgent need to introduce innovative WRM education programmes at senior secondary and tertiary levels to counter the upcoming, and crucial, shortage of water quality workers, occurring as "baby boomer" professionals retire, as infrastructure ages and as regulatory frameworks become more demanding. With similar situations throughout the developed world, and even more demand anticipated as developing countries upgrade their WRM needs and standards, ensuring that environmental management students are taught appropriate knowledge and skills relevant to sustainable water management is of global concern.…”

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Designing, implementing and evaluating a consultancy approach to teaching environmental management to undergraduates

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Beckmann

2012

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Educat

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What are the benefits of engaging undergraduate students with authentic, inquiry-based curricula that develop transdisciplinary research skills? Internationally, many educators believe that research-active curricula help students better understand how scientific and technological concepts underlie the complexities of our world, especially in the context of natural resource management and sustainability. This paper describes the outcomes of a "consultancy approach" (CA) to teaching an undergraduate water resources management course in an Australian university over the past 10 years. Using the documented experiences of staff, students and clients, this paper demonstrates how this researchbased curriculum has engaged students in authentic field-based research in ways that are student-centred, address diverse learning motivations and demonstrate the realities of being a practising professional. In addition, by providing environmental managers with a depth of research knowledge applicable to decision-making at individual sites that they would otherwise be unlikely, even unable, to acquire, the CA to teaching addresses the ongoing need in Australian communities for reliable scientific and environmental data on which to base complex land management decisions.

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confidence: 99%