Samantha Lindgren, Kristine Morris, Amanda C. Price
{"title":"Designing environmental storylines to achieve the complementary aims of environmental and science education through science and engineering practices","authors":"Samantha Lindgren, Kristine Morris, Amanda C. Price","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1949569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1949569","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Environmental education is implemented in formal curricula in multiple ways, including K-12 science. In the United States, the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) has provided a lens for considering how the goals of environmental education and formal science education may overlap and complement one another. Potential synergies emerge from similarities between NGSS science and engineering practices and the skills of questioning, analysis, and interpretation in the NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence. In this study, middle school students were engaged in an environmental storyline unit that supported their abilities to ask questions, design and conduct investigations, and develop model-based explanations, practices consistent across both fields. Participating students demonstrated positive gains in nature relatedness environmental attitudes. This study provides evidence that curricular design around the practices of science and environmental education connects the goals of each and may be a promising approach to broadening access to effective environmental education experiences. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1949569 .","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"239 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1949569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42949088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness","authors":"S. R. Stapleton, Kathryn Lynch","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1955650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1955650","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We join scholars who criticize the Western separation of humans and the more-than-human (MtH) and believe that an emphasis on the MtH within students’ local community is supported by repeated exposure. We take an ethnographic approach to study a collaborative program between a university, a local nonprofit, and a US public elementary school that organizes field trips to a local arboretum three times per year, over students’ elementary career. We share longitudinal ethnographic data over four years, following the first cohort from K-4th grade, describing ways in which students appear to connect with the MtH. We propose a construct for building connection to the MtH that includes a balance between aspects and activities we call “Movement” and those we call “Stillness.” We suggest that shifting between movement and stillness requires scaffolded, embodied practice. We propose that including movement and stillness aspects in EE, when scaffolded over time, can help foster children’s connections to the MtH in their community.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"272 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1955650","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45706128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wild pedagogies: touchstones for renegotiating education and the environment in the Anthropoceneedited by Bob Jickling, Sean Blenkinsop, Nora Timmerman and Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland.","authors":"P. Renshaw","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1954397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1954397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"290 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1954397","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46363303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education","authors":"Jennifer Yakamovich, T. Wright","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1929801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1929801","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which critically explore the confluence of contemporary art, sustainability, and informal education within Canada. Using a framework of poetics (poiesis), this study explores how an environmentally engaged arts practice is a form of transformative environmental education. We interviewed 24 current Canada-based visual, installation, and performance artists to understand how they conceptualize their role in fostering socioecological transformations. We used an inductive thematic coding scheme to analyze transcripts and compared emergent themes to current ecocritical literature. Results reveal a framework of artist-researcher-teacher as facilitator of conviviality, curiosity, and care, showing the agency of artists and a need for poetics in environmental work, research, and education.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"223 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1929801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43281383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best?","authors":"Daniel F. Pratson, M. Stern, R. Powell","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1924104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1924104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Positive motivation to perform work tasks has been associated with better performance and outcomes in both the organizational and informal education literature. In environmental education (EE), this means that more motivated instructors are likely to provide better programs for their participants. In this exploratory study across 15 states in the USA, grounded in interviews with EE instructors and their supervisors, we examine the most salient factors motivating EE instructors to perform their work and how the practices of their organizations influenced those factors. Organizational practices related to enhancing EE instructors’ feelings of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and meaningfulness of their work each contributed to positive motivations. A strong sense of shared values and interests underpinned each of these factors. We discuss recommendations for maintaining and enhancing instructor motivations, including hiring and onboarding strategies, participatory evaluation processes, and professional development opportunities. We also consider subtle differences in motivations at different career stages. Supplemental data for this article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1924104","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"256 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1924104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49044085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility","authors":"Daphne Goldman, Iris Alkaher, I. Aram","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1952397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1952397","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"398 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1952397","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44379148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction","authors":"Carlos Alberto Steila, Francisco Abrahão","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1921548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1921548","url":null,"abstract":"Correction Article title: Learning from a more-than-human perspective. Plants as teachers Authors: Isabel Cristina de Moura Carvalhoa, Carlos Alberto Steila, & Francisco Abrahão Gonzaga Journal:The Journal of Environmental Education Bibliometrics: Volume 51, Number 2, pages 144–155 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2020.1726266 When the article first published, the third author’s name was spelled incorrectly. It should have appeared as “Francisco Abrahão Gonzaga.” This error has been corrected in the online version.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"205 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1921548","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48946213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cassandras Of A Second Kind","authors":"C. Beeman, Sean Blenkinsop","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1922331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1922331","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, Cassandra’s role in the ancient Greek myth of the fall of Troy, as one given the gift of prophesy but cursed to be disbelieved, is explored with a view to understanding the apparently powerless position of climate justice and environmental activism to change public policy. To make this case, we re-interpret the myth of Cassandra to imagine her as a different kind of person, and explore the ideas and stories of certain Teme Augama Anishinaabe Elders that we believe reflect a divergent ontos (being state) from that of the global, modern West. This being state is embedded in the natural world in a constantly reciprocal and dialogical way. We couple this with parallel arguments from recent theories around the human neuro-hemispheric divide relating to ontology and use both to explore how we might become the kinds of people that are capable of dealing with climate change: Cassandras of the second kind. Viewed methodologically, this paper is a cyclical philosophical investigation that, in part, makes use of hermeneutics and narrative inquiry to understand mythic Greek tales and the stories of Indigenous Elders. It also draws on literary traditions that employ allegory to explore meaning.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"162 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1922331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49077291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors","authors":"Martha C. Monroe, C. Crandall, Lily T. Maynard","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1899108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1899108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Direct experiences in nature enable us learn and form environmental attitudes. Being influenced by nature as children is thought to help form a connection to nature that can lead to a lifetime of pro-environmental behaviors. A survey of adults in a watershed with a damaged estuary, however, suggests that concern and environmental identity were strong among most of the respondents and did not predict who performed environmental behaviors. Outdoor activities and childhood nature experiences were not correlated to or predictive of concern or behavior. Perhaps the urgency of the declining ecosystem prompted a new social norm for environmental behaviors that extended to a wider variety of residents than those who typically care about the environment.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"149 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1899108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47817313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using value-belief-norm theory to explore visitor responses to education programs at animal-themed facilities","authors":"Susan Caplow","doi":"10.1080/00958964.2021.1900043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1900043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract I use value-belief-norm theory to frame how environmental education program participants interpret important messages and set behavioral intentions in response to environmental education program content. I compare participants at three animal-themed environmental organizations with different missions, postulating that institutional mission frames values-based messaging and drives outcomes in these contexts. This paper is the third part of a mixed-methods comparative case study in which I analyzed program content across sites, compared visitors’ pre-program characteristics and beliefs, and now explore visitor interpretations and intentions post-program. I find that visitors accurately detect key values-based messages at each facility, but that each organization activates different preexisting knowledge and values, which affects both the relative salience of different elements of the value-belief-norm framework and whether visitors commit to pro-environmental behavior.","PeriodicalId":47893,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"190 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00958964.2021.1900043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}