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Bruce Johnson is Professor of Environmental Learning and Science Education in the department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies, Dean of the College of Education, and Paul L. Lindsey and Kathy J. Alexander Chair at the University of Arizona. Dr. Johnson has a PhD in Education Psychology with a minor in Science Education, an MS in Environmental Education, and a BS in Elementary Education. He was previously an elementary and middle school teacher in Arizona and New Mexico and director of outdoor schools in New Mexico and Australia. Dr. Johnson’s research includes the teaching and learning of ecological concepts, development of environmental values/attitudes and actions, and curriculum development, and teacher preparation and development. Dr. Johnson teaches in graduate programs in environmental learning and science education and also teaches courses in research design and elementary science methods. He also serves as Director of the Earth Education Research and Evaluation (EERE) Team, which has conducts research on children’s ecological understandings, environmental values/attitudes, and environmental actions and has provided evaluation services to centers and schools throughout the United States and in Australia, Bolivia, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Nepal, and Spain. Currently, the EERE Team is also evaluating education programs for NASA and is preparing to conduct an evaluation of a dietary treatment for Type II diabetes. As International Program Coordinator for The Institute for Earth Education (IEE), Dr. Johnson oversees the development and implementation of earth education programs and leads sessions on earth education around the world. IEE is an international, not-for-profit, educational organization that develops and disseminates earth education programs that are designed to help people live more harmoniously and joyously with the natural world. Earth education programs, including Earthkeepers, Sunship Earth, Sunship III, Lost Treasures, and Rangers of the Earth, have been offered at dozens of centers in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States. IEE is currently working with colleagues to bring the Earthkeepers program to Mexico, Slovenia and Taiwan. Dr. Johnson is currently Principal Investigator of the Teachers in Industry program, focused on keeping the best teachers in the profession while enhancing their ability to prepare their students for how science and math are used in the real world; Co-Investigator of Promoting Behavioral & Value Change through Outdoor Environmental Education, funded by the Czech Republic’s Grantova Agentura; Partner in Stories of Tomorrow: Students’ Visions on the Future of Space Travel, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program (grant agreement #731872); and a member of the Collaborative Around Research Experiences for Teachers (CARET) research group. In addition, he was also a founding Co-Director of the University of Arizona STEM Learning Center from 2012-17.

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Courses
  • TSHES
    Teaching Science and Health in Elementary School

  • EL
    Environmental Learning

  • SE
    Sustainability and Education

Grants
  • Funding agency logo
    CRPA: How do we learn the fate of tropical forests under climate change? A multimedia exhibition of photographic art portraying scientists & students

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2012

    $149.8K
  • Funding agency logo
    Beyond Bridging: Co-Education of Preservice and Inservice Elementary Teachers in Science and Mathematics

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2010

    $2.1M
  • Funding agency logo
    Southern Arizona Center for the Development and Retention of Science and Mathematics Teachers

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $874.0K
  • Funding agency logo
    Play Golf America University Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2000

    $450.0K
News
  • College of Education Fellowship Will Support STEM Education Along Border

    2020

  • Arizona STEM Teachers Return to Class After Summer in Industry

    2019

  • Endowment Will Support Children's Literature Collection at UA

    2018

  • UA Leads the Charge on STEM Reform

    2015

  • UA College of Education Supports K-12 STEM Education With Teacher Appreciation Week

    2014

  • UA STEM Learning Center Set to Launch

    2013

  • Keeping America Vibrant and Prosperous

    2013

  • UA Part of Nationwide STEM Movement

    2012

  • A Love Affair With the Natural World

    2012

  • UA to Launch New STEM Center

    2011

  • Program to Train Teachers as Mentors, Leaders

    2010

  • Pilot Program Maximizes Classroom Time for Future Teachers

    2010

  • STEM Program Works to Retain Math, Science Teachers

    2009

  • Qwest Foundation Grant Funds UA College of Education/TUSD Partnership

    2008

  • For the Love of Science Education

    2007

  • UA College Helps Districts With Testing Tools

    2007

  • Education's Bruce Johnson, Wade McLean Making Curriculum Articulation Recommendations

    2002

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    2001

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    2001

  • Bruce Johnson Nominated for Popejoy Dissertation Prize

    2001

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    2000

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    2000

  • College of Education Faculty Participate in Conference to Assess Educator Proficiency

    2000

  • College of Education Faculty

    2000

  • Bruce Johnson

    2000

Publications (55)
Recent
  • Earthkeepers: The Relationship between Instructional Strategies on the Program Outcomes

    2022

  • Informal Earth Education: Significant Shifts for Environmental Attitude and Knowledge

    2022

  • p Relationships between outdoor environmental education program characteristics and children rsquo;s environmental values and behaviors /p

    2021

  • Real World Learning in Outdoor Environmental Education Programs. The Practice from the Perspective of Educational Research

    2021

  • Vrednotenje otrokovih okoljskih svetovnih nazorov in skrbi

    2021

  • We love them anyway: outdoor environmental education programs from the accompanying teachers’ perspective

    2021

  • Relationships between outdoor environmental education program characteristics and children’s environmental values and behaviors

    2021

  • Assessing environmental attitudes and cognitive achievement within 9 years of informal earth education.

    2021

  • Biosphere 2 as an informal learning platform to assess motivation, fascination, and cognitive achievement for sustainability.

    2021

  • Values education in outdoor environmental education programs from the perspective of practitioners.

    2020

  • Assessing children’s environmental worldviews and concerns.

    2020

  • Frames in outdoor environmental education programs: What we communicate and why we think it matters.

    2020

  • p Outdoor environmental education programme leaders rsquo; theories of experiential learning /p

    2020

  • Outdoor environmental program leaders’ theories of experiential learning

    2020

  • p Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs? /p

    2020

  • Analyzing the environmental attitude of rural Nepalese children by validating the 2-MEV model.

    2019

  • Measuring environmental perceptions grounded on different theoretical models: The 2 Major Environmental Values (2-MEV) Model in comparison with the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale.

    2019

  • Development of the ecological concepts of energy flow and materials cycling in middle school students participating in earth education programs.

    2019

  • Measuring children’s environmental attitudes and values in northwest Mexico: Validating a modified version of measures to test the Model of Ecological Values (2-MEV)

    2015

  • Evaluation of a Place-Based Environmental Education Program: From There to Here

    2015

  • The 2-MEV model: Constancy of adolescent environmental values within an 8-year time frame

    2015

  • Examining the relationship between environmental attitudes and behaviour in education programmes

    2015

  • Evaluating the impact of the Earthkeepers Earth education program on children's ecological understandings, values and attitudes, and behaviour in Cyprus

    2014

  • Back in the classroom: Teacher follow-through after an earth education program.

    2013

  • Str\'a\vzci Zeme v Ceske republice: Zkuvsenost s implementaci programu vychovy o Zemi (Earthkeepers in the Czech republic: Experience from the implementation process.)

    2013

  • Earthkeepers in the Czech Republic: Experience from the implementation process of an earth education programme

    2013

  • Measuring children’s environmental attitudes and values in northwest Mexico: validating a modified version of measures to test the Model of Ecological Values (2-MEV)

    2013

  • Development and validation of the star properties concept inventory

    2012

  • The 2-MEV scale in the United States: a measure of children's environmental attitudes based on the theory of ecological attitude

    2010

  • Biosphere 2 Center Visitor Programs

    2010

  • College students’ preinstructional ideas about stars and star formation

    2009

  • College students’ preinstructional ideas about stars and star formation

    2009

  • Using Bogner and Wiseman’s model of ecological values to measure the impact of an earth education programme on children’s environmental perceptions

    2008

  • Using Bogner and Wiseman’s Model of Ecological Values to measure the impact of an earth education programme on children’s environmental perceptions

    2008

  • The Impact of Methodological Practices in Research and Evaluation in Environmental Learning

    2008

  • Teachers' perceptions of school climate: A validity study of scores from the Revised School Level Environment Questionnaire

    2007

  • Assessing children's environmental worldviews: Modifying and validating the New Ecological Paradigm Scale for use with children

    2007

  • Fusion Confusion: Assessing What Students Know (and Don’t Know) About Stars

    2006

  • Student achievement and elementary teachers’ perceptions of school climate

    2006

  • Earth Education Research

    2005

  • Further thoughts on “Cutting Nature’s Leading Strings”: A conversation.

    2005

  • Connecting Outdoor Learning Experiences to Our Schools and Our Homes: An International Study of Teachers' Understandings of Energy in Ecological Systems and In Our Lives

    2004

  • Attempting Environmental Education Reform: Initiation and Implementation of Programmatic, Outdoor Environmental Learning in Public School Curricula

    2004

  • Validity and reliability of a shortened, revised version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES)

    2004

  • Earth Education. Ein programmatischer Beitrag zum Erfahrungslernen

    2003

  • A programmatic approach: Purposeful experiences.

    2003

  • The role of experience in understanding, feeling, and processing.

    2003

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of a Student-Centered College Classroom.

    2003

  • Introduction to the special issue.

    2003

  • Getting to the Fourth Year: The Instruments and Protocols Used To Study the Practice of Beginning K-12 Science Teachers.

    2002

  • Getting to the fourth year: The instruments and protocols used to study the practice of beginning K-12 science teachers

    2002

  • Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the School Level Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ).

    2001

  • Assessing the Constructivist Classroom.

    2000

  • Earthkeepers

    1998

  • Earth Education: Learning to Live More Lightly on the Earth.

    1990

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