Rosalyn McKeown is the LECL program coordinator in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department (ELP) in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University. Rosalyn earned a doctoral degree in geography from the University of Oregon. Rosalyn's current research focuses on education for a more sustainable future in both the formal and nonformal sectors of the education community. Rosalyn is the primary author of the internationally popular Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit, which can be found on the Internet at http://www.esdtoolkit.org. This easy to use manual for creating locally relevant and culturally appropriate sustainability education programs has received over 100,000 hits on the WWW. Rosalyn has received requests to translate the Toolkit into many languages. Rosalyn is also Secretariat to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Chair, Secretariat, and International Network of Teacher Education Institutions recently completed Guidelines and Recommendations on Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, which was published by UNESCO in the six UN languages. The Guidelines are the result of several years of action research in 30 institutions of teacher education in 28 countries. Rosalyn has been involved in a variety of educational programs. She was co-director of the Tennessee Solid Waste Education Project for 10 years and helped develop the TVA Water Sourcebook for Grades 3 – 5. She also organized the River-to-River Russian-American teacher exchange program. In addition she was a secondary school teacher. Rosalyn recently won an award from the North American Association for Environmental Education for outstanding contribution to environmental education by an individual working at the global level. Rosalyn has published 50 articles, book chapters, and monographs primarily in environmental education and sustainability education including: McKeown, R. & Hopkins, C. (2007). Moving beyond the EE and ESD Debate in Formal Education. Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 1(1). McKeown, R. (2007). Energy Myth #2 – The public is well informed about energy. In B.K. Sovacool and M.A. Brown (Eds.), Energy and American Society: Fourteen Myths. (pp. 51-74). The Netherlands: Springer Press. McKeown, R. (2006). Approaches to environmental and geographical education for sustainability, in the United States. In Lee, John Chi-Kin and Michael Williams (Eds.), Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability: Cultural Contexts. (pp. 283-296). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. McKeown, R. (2006). Examining Teacher Education through the Lens of Sustainability. In Davies, R & Down, L. (Eds.), Institute of Education Annual: Teacher Education. (pp. 59 – 75). Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Education, The University of the West Indies. McKeown, R. (2006). Interpreting survey data to inform environmental education programs." Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 5(2), 107 - 115. Hopkins, C., McKeown, R. & the International Network. (2005). Guidelines and recommendation for reorienting teacher education to address sustainability. Education for Sustainable Development in Action Technical Paper no. 2. Paris: UNESCO. Available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001433/143370E.pdf. UNESCO. (2005). Contributing to a more sustainable future: Quality education, life skills and education for sustainable development. Paris: UNESCO. Available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001410/141019e.pdf McKeown, R., Hopkins, C. & van Ginkel, H. (2005). Challenges and roles for higher education in promoting sustainable development. In Mobilising for education for sustainable development: Toward a global learning space based on regional centres of expertise. (pp. 13 – 21). Fadeeva, Zinaida and Yoko Mochizuki (Eds.) Tokyo: United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies. McKeown, R. (2003). Working with K - 12 schools: Insights for scientists. BioScience. 53, 870 - 875. McKeown, R. & Hopkins, C.A. (2003). ¹EE ESD: Diffusing the Worry. Environmental Education Research, 9(1), 117 – 128. McKeown, R. (2003). Education policy and gender issues: A sustainability perspective. Encyclopedia of Earth Life Support Systems. Paris: UNESCO. McKeown-Ice, R. & Dendinger. R. (2000). Socio-political-cultural foundations of environmental education, Journal of Environmental Education, 31(4), 37 - 45. McKeown-Ice, R. (2000). Environmental education in the United States: A survey of pre-service teacher education programs. Journal of Environmental Education, 32(1), 4 - 11. McKeown-Ice, R. (1994). Environmental education: A geographical perspective Journal of Geography, 93(1). 40 - 42.
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