Transformative Learning with Wangari Maathai: Fostering Environmental Education and Sustainability Through the Green Picturebook Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace

IF 0.5 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1177/09716858241263129

Goutam Karmakar

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Picturebooks that focus on environmental issues offer children the chance to connect with natural settings, promoting emotional and mental health, while also developing ethical principles and an authentic concern for the environment. This genre possesses the capacity to emotionally captivate children through its combination of text and visuals, potentially resulting in a shift in their perspectives towards the topics and issues being portrayed. In addition to this, picturebooks are educational because they use words and images to choose, arrange, and understand data and statistics, thereby making knowledge accessible to those who are generally interested and engaging readers on an emotional and intellectual level. This essay examines how the picturebook Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace (2010) effectively communicates Wangari Maathai’s environmental advocacy. For this purpose, the article offers a brief examination of the influence of Maathai’s Green Belt Movement and the holistic ecological connotations that the visual representations seek to emphasize. The article contends that this ‘green informational picturebook’ acts as a catalyst for transformative learning by enhancing ecological literacy in children and serving as a platform for environmental education and sustainability in the public as a whole.

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旺加里-马塔伊的变革性学习：通过绿色图画书《变革的种子》促进环境教育和可持续性：播种和平之路

以环境问题为主题的图画书为儿童提供了与自然环境建立联系的机会，促进了儿童的情感和心理健康，同时也培养了儿童的道德准则和对环境的真正关注。这种类型的图画书通过文字和视觉的结合，能够在情感上吸引儿童，有可能使他们对所描绘的主题和问题的看法发生转变。此外，图画书还具有教育意义，因为它利用文字和图像来选择、排列和理解数据和统计资料，从而使一般感兴趣的读者也能获得知识，并在情感和智力层面吸引读者。本文探讨了绘本《变革的种子》（Seeds of Change：种植和平之路》（2010 年）如何有效传达旺加里-马塔伊的环保主张。为此，文章简要探讨了马塔伊的绿化带运动的影响以及视觉表现所强调的整体生态内涵。文章认为，这本 "绿色信息图画书 "通过提高儿童的生态素养，为公众的环境教育和可持续发展提供了一个平台，从而成为变革性学习的催化剂。

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Journal of Human Values SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.40

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Human Values is a peer-reviewed tri-annual journal devoted to research on values. Communicating across manifold knowledge traditions and geographies, it presents cutting-edge scholarship on the study of values encompassing a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Reading values broadly, the journal seeks to encourage and foster a meaningful conversation among scholars for whom values are no esoteric resources to be archived uncritically from the past. Moving beyond cultural boundaries, the Journal looks at values as something that animates the contemporary in its myriad manifestations: politics and public affairs, business and corporations, global institutions and local organisations, and the personal and the private.