“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility

IF 1.7 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Environmental Education Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI:10.1080/00958964.2021.1952397

Daphne Goldman, Iris Alkaher, I. Aram

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Abstract

Abstract Making people aware of the interconnections between personal consumerism and its environmental consequences is fundamental for motivating them to engage in more environmentally responsible consumption practices. This interpretive study, conducted in 2018, explored how transformative sustainability learning is implemented in waste education conducted at an environmental education center within the largest waste-treatment facility in Israel, and if it initiates a transformative process. Educators were selected since they serve as societal change-agents. Data were collected from learning plans developed by the center, observations, and interviews of participants (150) during and after their visit. Findings indicate that the educational intervention comprised a “key experience”, initiating a transformative process, and elicited a framework of characteristics for transformative waste education. In view of the role of consumer society in contemporary waste-related challenges, the principles emerging from this study may provide a model for other such centers, based on critical waste education that may motivate behavioral change.

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“直视垃圾”:从回收利用到减少消费主义——废物处理设施的变革环境教育

摘要让人们意识到个人消费主义及其环境后果之间的相互联系，是激励他们从事更环保的消费实践的根本。这项于2018年进行的解释性研究探讨了变革性可持续性学习是如何在以色列最大的废物处理设施内的环境教育中心进行的废物教育中实施的，以及它是否启动了一个变革过程。之所以选择教育工作者，是因为他们是社会变革的推动者。数据来自该中心制定的学习计划、观察以及参与者（150人）访问期间和访问后的访谈。研究结果表明，教育干预包括一个“关键经验”，启动了一个变革过程，并引发了变革性废物教育的特征框架。鉴于消费者社会在当代废物相关挑战中的作用，本研究中提出的原则可能会为其他此类中心提供一个模式，基于可能激励行为改变的关键废物教育。

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期刊介绍： Any educator in the environmental field will find The Journal of Environmental Education indispensable. Based on recent research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, the journal details how best to present environmental issues and how to evaluate programs already in place for primary through university level and adult students. University researchers, park and recreation administrators, and teachers from the United States and abroad provide new analyses of the instruction, theory, methods, and practices of environmental communication and education in peer-reviewed articles. Reviews of the most recent books, textbooks, videos, and other educational materials by experts in the field appear regularly.