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Duane Keown
Dr. Duane Keown, retired University of Wyoming professor of science education, was honored at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education (N...lihat lebih banyakDr. Duane Keown, retired University of Wyoming professor of science education, was honored at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) in Portland, Oregon. He received the distinguished Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Individual Award for 2009. NAAEE is the professional association for environmental education. The thousands of members promote professional excellence in nonformal organizations, K-12 classrooms, universities, government agencies, and corporate settings throughout North America and in over fifty-five other countries.
Duane Keown began his education career at the isolated Hideout Mine School on Deer Flat in San Juan County of Utah in 1960. It was a one-room school, long ago abandoned, with twelve students, K-8. Later, he taught biology and other sciences at the Monticello High School in Monticello, Utah. For three years, he was the principal of the San Juan Junior High School in Blanding, Utah. In 1975, he became a professor of science education at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Keown is best known in Wyoming for his work with teachers in conservation/environmental education workshops throughout Wyoming. In UW’s Science and Math Teaching Center, he worked with teachers from more than thirty Wyoming school districts on the UW campus during the summers 1995–98 to write and compile environmental education activity manuals. Through teacher workshops, the manuals, Wild Wonderful Wyoming: Choices for the Future, went to one-third of Wyoming’s K-12 teachers. He has authored numerous professional articles in journals on science education, environmental education, and religion.
Other significant awards he has received include Wyoming Educator of the Year presented by the Wyoming Wildlife Federation (1993), Outstanding Service to the Educational Profession from UW’s College of Education (2000), and Wyoming Environmental Educator of the Year from the Wyoming Association for Environmental Education (2001). Dr. Keown has spoken at many state, national, and international conferences. He was a speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, and Economic Sustainability in Mauritius, January 2009.lihat lebih sedikit
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