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How to Integrate New Literacy in the Curriculum—Example of Environmental Literacy

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In this chapter, we discuss the nature of domain-specific new literacy and ways of its integration into the core disciplinary curriculum. We have chosen environmental literacy as an example, but this logic of description can be applied to any other domain-specific literacy—financial literacy, health literacy, civic literacy, etc. Like other kinds of domain-specific literacy, environmental literacy embraces both an initial set of specific knowledge, and ultimately sustainable behavior. We also look into what schools can do to foster this kind of literacy.

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    https://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/Social-sciences/Education-for-sustainability/Key-concepts.

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    https://www.gdrc.org/uem/ee/EE-Tbilisi_1977.pdf.

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    https://evolve.elsevier.com/education/concept-based-curriculum/conceptual-learning-definition/.

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    http://mobilizingstem.wceruw.org/documents-June/Sherman%20SustainabilityTheBigIdea.pdf.

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    https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/curriculum/science/en_science_11_environmental-science_elab.pdf.

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    http://sustainableschoolsproject.org/education/big-ideas.

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    https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/education-and-youth/london-curriculum.

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    https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/cross-curriculum-priorities/sustainability/.

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    According to the monitoring of enrolment to Russian universities: http://ege.hse.ru

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Dobryakova, M. (2023). How to Integrate New Literacy in the Curriculum—Example of Environmental Literacy. In: Dobryakova, M., Froumin, I., Barannikov, K., Moss, G., Remorenko, I., Hautamäki, J. (eds) Key Competences and New Literacies. UNIPA Springer Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23281-7_14

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