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2019

21st Century Education

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Ecological Innovators: A Multiple Case Study Approach To Explore The Influencing Factors And Conditions Upon The Lives Of Young People Who Innovate To Save The World, Pascha Griffiths, Pascha Marlin Griffiths Ph.D. Aug 2019

Ecological Innovators: A Multiple Case Study Approach To Explore The Influencing Factors And Conditions Upon The Lives Of Young People Who Innovate To Save The World, Pascha Griffiths, Pascha Marlin Griffiths Ph.D.

Educational Studies Dissertations

This multiple case study aimed to identify and describe factors and conditions that influence the lives of young people who become innovators of solutions that help the environment. This study involved three unique case studies of ecological innovators, two individuals and one paired team. Each participant had designed, prototyped, or patented an environmental innovation before the age of 30 years. The four primary participants, recruited by word of mouth and snowball sampling, were comprised of one American (U.S.) middle-school girl, one American-Israeli man in his 50s, and the team of a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman, both in their …