Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education最新文献

Secondary school students’ understanding of circular economy and recycling at a small rural school 一所农村小学校的中学生对循环经济和回收利用的理解

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14620

A. Laius, Rolf Saarna, Merike Kont

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The views of preschool educators on the development of environmental awareness through distance education 学前教育工作者对通过远程教育培养环保意识的看法

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14656

Leonidas Gavrilas, Marianna-Sotiria Papanikolaou, Konstantinos T. Kotsis

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Understanding the impact of climate change on Bhutanese school communities: Challenges and responses 了解气候变化对不丹学校社区的影响：挑战与应对

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14692

Ramesh Thapa, Annette Gough, Grant Cooper

{"title":"Understanding the impact of climate change on Bhutanese school communities: Challenges and responses","authors":"Ramesh Thapa, Annette Gough, Grant Cooper","doi":"10.29333/ijese/14692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ijese/14692","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is intensifying the risks faced by children’s lives, as well as impacting their learning and education. How school communities in Bhutan are dealing with issues related to climate change is largely uncharted. This study examined how Bhutanese schools have been affected by the changing climate and how they were responding to it. The data sources included interviews with school principals, teachers, and district education officers, as well as observations, and document analysis. The global comprehensive school safety framework, along with a whole school approach to climate action framed the results of this study. Findings included that schools experienced multiple climate impacts and shocks affecting their children’s health, education, and the school system itself. Adaptation and mitigation measures including climate change education have yet to gain traction at the sector and school’s level. Schools, however, have attempted some actions such as through disaster management, and participatory environmental conservation and green school initiatives. Social capital was critical in filling the resource gap for initiating environmental and climate change actions, carried out through collective school, community, and student-based activities. Human capacities, policy and institutional structures, technical capacities, and capital (cultural and economic) constraints as well as slow mainstreaming into local development processes impeded efforts to build climate-resilient schools, including practices to contribute to greenhouse gases reduction. This study not only shed light on how climate change was affecting schools and children but also provided strong evidence for policymakers and relevant agencies to scale up interventions to enhance adaptation and mitigation practices.","PeriodicalId":495938,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141708021","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}

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Pre-service teachers’ and primary students’ motivations and beliefs towards science 职前教师和小学生对科学的动机和信念

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14576

Konstantinos G. Tsoumanis, Georgios Stylos, Konstantinos T. Kotsis

{"title":"Pre-service teachers’ and primary students’ motivations and beliefs towards science","authors":"Konstantinos G. Tsoumanis, Georgios Stylos, Konstantinos T. Kotsis","doi":"10.29333/ijese/14576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ijese/14576","url":null,"abstract":"In a fast-paced evolved modern world, scientific literacy (SL) is essential for an individual to interact and make decisions about science-related issues. A scientifically literate person should have not only scientific knowledge, but also motivations and beliefs toward science. The purpose of current research is the examination and comparison of pre-service teachers’ and primary school students’ motivations and beliefs towards science. There were 787 participants comprising the research sample. A three-factor structure was verified through statistical techniques such as exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Moreover, the reliability coefficient is considered acceptable. According to descriptive analyses and statistical significance tests, both groups show medium to quite positive perceptions toward the value of science and science self-efficacy. Additionally, there is no statistically significant difference in both groups’ performances regarding these categories. Regarding personal epistemology, students achieve a statistically significantly better performance than the teachers. However, both groups’ scores were assessed as moderate to low. Suggestions for further research about primary school students’ and teachers’ SL motivations and beliefs are presented.","PeriodicalId":495938,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141708378","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}

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Studying K-12 and post-secondary teachers’ reflections on the value of a citizen science project for fostering learning: The case of a winter stream project 研究 K-12 和中学后教师对公民科学项目促进学习的价值的思考：冬季溪流项目案例

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14636

Rebecca Swenson, Corrie Nyquist

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Can primary school pupils become researchers? A research project on the accessibility of public spaces 小学生能成为研究人员吗？关于公共空间无障碍环境的研究项目

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14693

Ioannis Vassiloudis

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Promoting sustainability: Environmental education activities in a social institution 促进可持续性：社会机构中的环境教育活动

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14754

Marta Correira, Ricardo Ramos

{"title":"Promoting sustainability: Environmental education activities in a social institution","authors":"Marta Correira, Ricardo Ramos","doi":"10.29333/ijese/14754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29333/ijese/14754","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental education should not only act in the context of formal education but can also be applied in informal contexts, allowing a multipurpose application, serving to raise awareness, and transmit knowledge, allowing individuals to develop attitudes and behaviors that go against a more eco-centric posture. Given this fact, we developed a series of activities within the spectrum of environmental education applied in a social IPSS (social solidarity private institution), Obra Social Padre Miguel in the City of Bragança in Portugal. In this work, we used a qualitative approach, specifically study of exploratory nature, since it involved users and employees of the entity in the developed action, subsequently, we collected statements through interviews. A short interview script was drawn up and validated by professionals. In the development of these actions, we collect some data, such as water saving, food waste, and testimonials from users and employees. In the development of this work, we can observe that there was a decrease in the ecological footprint of the institution, and these actions can serve as an example that can be replicated by other entities. Given the results of this work, we conclude that the application of these actions in environmental education in addition to helping those involved in environmental awareness, can help entities to reduce their ecological footprint.","PeriodicalId":495938,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141701313","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}

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Shifting the desired outcome from climate literacy to climate agency: Education that empowers civic leaders 将预期成果从气候扫盲转变为气候代理：增强公民领袖能力的教育

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14657

B. A. Janney, L. Zummo, Monika Lohani

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An examination of educators’ approaches and strategies when facilitating field study science observations 研究教育工作者促进实地科学观察的方法和策略

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14742

S. N. Dean, Devan A. Jones

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Experiential environmental learning together with the trees in the Antropocene 在安特卫普新世与树木一起进行环境体验式学习

Interdisciplinary journal of environmental and science education Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.29333/ijese/14365

I. Tsevreni, K. Magos

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