Wei-Chieh Lin, L. Nguyen, Ngoc-Huy Tran, Chin-Fei Huang
{"title":"Impact of an action-oriented environmental education course on students’ environmental awareness","authors":"Wei-Chieh Lin, L. Nguyen, Ngoc-Huy Tran, Chin-Fei Huang","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2099482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2099482","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explores the impact of an action-oriented environmental education course on students’ environmental awareness, with 53 college students divided into experimental (N = 27) and control (N = 26) groups. Both groups participated in similar learning activities; however, the experimental group further recorded the amount of waste discharged into the environment by people around them for one and a half months (2 days/week). Students in the experimental group showed a significant difference in six of seven environmental awareness dimensions after this course. These results confirm that an action-oriented environmental education course has a positive effect on changing an individual’s awareness of the environment.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"331 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76490898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Woods, R. Powell, M. Stern, B. T. Frensley, B. Wright
{"title":"Reorienting training in the time of Covid-19 and social justice movements","authors":"Laura Woods, R. Powell, M. Stern, B. T. Frensley, B. Wright","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2078439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2078439","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have changed the social and political landscape in which environmental educators work. To meet these challenges and to assess current training needs, we invited members of three national U.S. organizations to rate 28 different professional competencies in terms of importance and preparedness to perform. Our results showed that educators have the greatest need for training in diversity, equity, and inclusion; and communicating about complex and controversial issues. Additionally, environmental educators prefer training that is delivered through in-person exercises, online courses, and participation in learning communities. This information can help prioritize future professional development.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"20 1","pages":"302 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78536986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partnering with counselors: using photovoice to expand adolescent awareness of nearby outdoor spaces accessed for health purposes","authors":"Ryan F. Reese, Jacqueline M. Swank","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2068699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2068699","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Minimal scholarship has investigated the possible roles counselors might play within environmental education. We piloted a photovoice collaboration between a counselor and an environmental educator with a classroom of secondary students (grades 9-12) in the southeast United States. Adolescents (N = 14) identified connections with outdoor environments and took photos representing every day, nearby nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. In analyzing their photos, the youth identified four themes: (a) wellness, (b) environmentalism and education, (c) relationships and connection, and (d) awareness-reflective. We discuss study limitations, recommendations for future research, and implications for partnerships between environmental educators and counselors.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"52 1","pages":"288 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74949196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shaping families’ local biodiversity awareness while using a place-based mobile device during a nature walk","authors":"Lucy R. McClain","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2064007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2064007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This research study focuses on 31 families (n = 105 individuals) and their experience using a place-based e-Trailguide to observe and learn about the local biodiversity during a hike. Open-ended interviews were conducted with each family after their hike with the e-Trailguide to assess shifts in biodiversity awareness. 190 interview responses were thematically coded into 17 different categories. Results showed that new awareness of tree characteristics, plant identification, and insect species were reported most often. Overall, families’ new awareness of plants was reported more than animals. Implications highlight the value of place-based and temporal-specific content when designing outdoor-based mobile programs for families.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"34 1","pages":"273 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75615855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After the forum I realized there is more I can do: communicating climate change to youth using public deliberation","authors":"C. Li, John H. Schulz, Sara Thuston","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2062068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2062068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Communicating the need to address climate change has been hampered by a lack of immediacy and scientific literacy. Engaging youth will be critical for addressing these deficiencies, but limited research exists about young people’s knowledge and hope about climate change. To address this need, we assessed the efficacy of public deliberation among youth using five environmental issue forums (EIFs) to positively affect general awareness knowledge of climate change and hope for an improved future. Our results showed general awareness knowledge prior to participation in an EIF was significantly different among five groups but increased to relatively the same level for all groups afterwards. Alternatively, hope showed no difference among groups before participation in an EIF but increased in four of five groups afterwards. These results suggest public deliberation in the form of EIFs can potentially improve climate change communication among young people.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"254 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84033152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luísa Aurélio, Vera Sequeira, S. França, Sandra Amoroso, D. Boaventura, Inês Cardoso, A. Amorim, H. Cabral
{"title":"Bridging the gap between formal and non-formal science education: traditional fish markets as a tool to promote ocean literacy","authors":"Luísa Aurélio, Vera Sequeira, S. França, Sandra Amoroso, D. Boaventura, Inês Cardoso, A. Amorim, H. Cabral","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2043207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2043207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Raising awareness on marine environmental issues is crucial to deepen students’ knowledge on ocean sustainability. Nonetheless, ocean-related topics have not been adequately addressed through formal education curricula, thus non-formal learning activities were developed to promote Ocean Literacy among students. These include visits to the local fish market and hands-on activities of fish biological sampling. A mixed methodology with closed and open-self questionnaires and interviews, was used to assess the activities’ effect in student’s learning and to evaluate their implementation and importance. Results showed the activities contribution to the increased learning while promoting a more active citizenship regarding ocean conservancy.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"238 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77076757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline V. Aenlle, J. Loizzo, J. C. Bunch, Whitney Stone, Maegan Meredith, Katie Ray
{"title":"Conservation conversation: an arts-based approach to examine impacts of a live video webcast on youth viewers’ conceptualizations of forest ecosystems","authors":"Jacqueline V. Aenlle, J. Loizzo, J. C. Bunch, Whitney Stone, Maegan Meredith, Katie Ray","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2034554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2034554","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Live video web-streaming via an electronic field trip (EFT) format can connect youth with scientists working in a variety of settings. Previous research indicated interactions with scientists can change children’s perceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) careers. We conducted an arts-based study to examine an EFT’s impact on elementary students’ pre-/post- drawings of forest ecosystems, conservation practices, and related STEM role models. Through three rounds of visual coding and averaging codes, we found imagery shown in the EFT influenced participants’ post-drawings. Results showed youth’s visual conceptualizations of a forest shifted to include pine trees, prescribed burning, snakes, scientists, and science communicators.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"4 1","pages":"221 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75296550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the forest to the fork: Why we need to “reframe conservation” for conservation behavior change campaigns","authors":"Lizz Frost Yocum, L. Vanegas, B. A. Day","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2022.2025653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2022.2025653","url":null,"abstract":"The conservation sector is increasingly recognizing that conservation is not only about animals and plants but equally about people and their behavior (Verissimo, 2013; Schultz, 2011), and there is growing interest and practice in applying human social science theory and approaches to behavior change (see e.g., McKenzie-Mohr et al., 2011; Reddy et al., 2017; Stern, 2000). Framing theory suggests that how something is presented to an audience influences how they process the information. Framing an issue is among the first steps to introduce the topic to intended audiences. The frame is an initial filter to structure and give meaning to the exchange of ideas, using “organizing principles that are socially shared and persistent” (Reese et al., 2001). As the conservation sector deals with more complex issues such as reducing urban demand for bushmeat and applies new approaches such as using mass communications and social marketing strategies to bring about behavior change, “conservation” needs to be “reframed” so the topic fits the worldviews and interests of target audiences. Often the perceptions held by consumers of bushmeat and those held by those in the conservation sector are incongruent. From a conservation perspective, eating bushmeat in cities is a threat to wildlife. Too much meat is hunted to meet urban demand and is hunting many species to extinction. It is also contributing to food insecurity for rural and forest people who no longer have enough protein to eat (Wilkie et al., 2016). Urbanites in Central Africa have many motivations for eating bushmeat. For them, bushmeat consumption does not present a problem. The problem is the constraints on eating bushmeat that they encounter. Since 2015, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been developing a model for using conservation social marketing to reduce urban","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"5 1","pages":"3 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75514521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How longtime residents use visual media cues to determine evacuation actions before hurricanes","authors":"Cory L. Armstrong, Jue Hou, Nathan A. Towery","doi":"10.1080/1533015X.2021.2022550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2021.2022550","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study sought to measure risk perception and behavioral intention in rural and urban communities in Mississippi and Alabama when severe weather strikes. We developed an experiment testing how visual cues and media messages surrounding an impending hurricane could influence an individual's decision-making in the situation. Respondents were selected from six counties on Mississippi and Alabama coastlines and placed into one of three conditions, each of which described a hypothetical “Hurricane Farrah,” which was near landfall nearby. Data were collected on 466 respondents and analysis determined that the live video was least likely to motivate respondents to take evacuation measures.","PeriodicalId":35034,"journal":{"name":"Applied Environmental Education and Communication","volume":"29 4 1","pages":"204 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78166454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}