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Abstract Environmental literacy has been defined in numerous ways and attempts have been made to measure how environmentally literate people are. Many attempts to measure literacy have instead measured people's knowledge about pollution and their attitudes toward the environment. According to many environmental education experts, knowledge and attitudes are important components of environmental literacy, especially if the goal of environmental education is to change behavior. However, the experts also indicate that, to change an individual's behavior, knowledge about the environment must be associated with environmental sensitivity, personal beliefs, and decisionmaking and problem-solving skills. The research presented in this article contributes to environmental literacy research by offering a tested, valid survey instrument to measure ecological knowledge—one component of environmental literacy. In this article, we provide an example of how this instrument can be applied by comparing knowledge levels among diverse groups of Ohio citizens. 相似文献
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Environmental education in schools in England is subject to conflicting pressures from the policies of central government concerning the environment and education. Schools are considered to be important vehicles for improving environmental responsibility and within this ‘values education’ makes a significant contribution. Recent reform of the education system has been directed towards raising standards, with an emphasis on knowledge and skills. Aspects of affective education, including beliefs, values and attitudes receive less emphasis. Results of a study into how environmentally‐aware teachers in secondary schools see their role in relation to their own attitudes to the environment, the relationship between local and global concerns and their understanding of the nature of environmental education and its contribution to the curriculum are reported and discussed in the context of policy mismatch. 相似文献
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Charlotte Woods 《Higher Education》2010,60(2):171-185
This article has dual aims. First, it proposes an explicit focus on emotion as a means of enriching thinking about employee
health and wellbeing in the higher education (HE) sector. Second, in order to bring conceptual clarity to a highly complex
area, it presents and illustrates (using a fictional scenario) a framework for understanding emotion. The article begins with
an overview of recent published research relevant to the HE workplace as an affective domain and argues that research with
an explicit focus on emotion is a so far little exploited means of investigating aspects of working life in HE that have implications
for health and professional practice. It then presents a conceptualisation that views emotion as a system within which individual
and environmental factors interact in highly intricate ways in emotional experience (Lazarus in Emotion and adaptation. Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1991, 1999). Viewed from this perspective ‘emotions’, as opposed to less powerful ‘affects’ (such as attitudes, beliefs and opinions),
are uniquely relevant to physical and mental health. The article concludes by considering implications arising from this perspective
on emotion for researchers and other practitioners in HE with an interest in how the university workplace impacts on the wellbeing
of an increasingly diverse workforce. 相似文献
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Alison Lugg 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2013,13(2):97-112
UNESCO's challenge to Higher Education institutions to provide educational leadership in sustainable development, provides an impetus to develop innovative, interdisciplinary curricula and pedagogy. Whereas Higher Education curricula in sustainability and sustainable development have tended to come from the environmental sciences, recent studies have highlighted the need for more holistic, experiential, interdisciplinary approaches. As a pedagogical approach, outdoor learning may have something to offer since it lends itself to holistic and experiential learning and enables integration of knowledge and skills from a range of discipline areas. Outdoor and environmental education research suggests that educational experiences in outdoor settings can be significant in developing environmental sensitivity and knowledge. Such knowledge and attitudes are components of ecological literacy and, more recently, sustainability literacy. This paper considers how outdoor experiential pedagogy might contribute to the current sustainability education agenda. It focuses on Higher Education since this sector has the obligation and the capability of instigating a ‘ripple’ effect' in developing sustainability-literate citizens. It discusses possibilities and issues arising from a review of outdoor, environmental and sustainability education literature, particularly, but not exclusively, from the UK. The paper is a precursor to an empirical study into how outdoor learning might contribute to the development of sustainability-literate graduates. 相似文献
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In a survey of Canadian university students (N = 205), the relationship between majoring in an outdoor recreation university program and environmental concern, cooperation, and behavior were examined. Stepwise linear regression indicated that enrollment in outdoor recreation was predictive of environmental behavior and ecological cooperation; and these results held independently of age and gender. We then examined the possibility that environmental concern may mediate these relationships. Inclusion of ecocentrism as a mediating variable indicated that environmental concern partially accounted for the relation between outdoor recreation and self-reported environmental behavior, and fully mediated (reduced to nonsignificance) the relationship between outdoor recreation and ecological cooperation. Results are discussed in the context of education, and more specifically experiential outdoor education as promoting environmental behavior through greater concern for the ecosystem. 相似文献
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Developing sustainability-literate citizens through outdoor learning: possibilities for outdoor education in Higher Education 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1
《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2007,7(2):97-112
UNESCO's challenge to Higher Education institutions to provide educational leadership in sustainable development, provides an impetus to develop innovative, interdisciplinary curricula and pedagogy. Whereas Higher Education curricula in sustainability and sustainable development have tended to come from the environmental sciences, recent studies have highlighted the need for more holistic, experiential, interdisciplinary approaches. As a pedagogical approach, outdoor learning may have something to offer since it lends itself to holistic and experiential learning and enables integration of knowledge and skills from a range of discipline areas. Outdoor and environmental education research suggests that educational experiences in outdoor settings can be significant in developing environmental sensitivity and knowledge. Such knowledge and attitudes are components of ecological literacy and, more recently, sustainability literacy. This paper considers how outdoor experiential pedagogy might contribute to the current sustainability education agenda. It focuses on Higher Education since this sector has the obligation and the capability of instigating a 'ripple' effect' in developing sustainability-literate citizens. It discusses possibilities and issues arising from a review of outdoor, environmental and sustainability education literature, particularly, but not exclusively, from the UK. The paper is a precursor to an empirical study into how outdoor learning might contribute to the development of sustainability-literate graduates. 相似文献
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Zehavit Gross 《Prospects》2010,40(1):93-113
Research has shown the Holocaust to be the primary component of Jewish identity (Farago in Yahadut Zmanenu 5:259–285, 1989; Gross in Influence of the trip to Poland within the framework of the Ministry of Education on the working through of the
Holocaust. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2000; Herman in Jewish identity: A socio-psychological perspective, Sage, Beverly Hills, 1977; Levy et al. in Beliefs, observations and social interaction among Israeli Jews. Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied
Social Research (Hebrew), Jerusalem, 1993; Ofer in Jews in Israel: Contemporary social and cultural patterns. Brandeis University Press, Hanover and London, pp. 394–417,
2004a) and to contribute significantly to Jewish Israelis’ sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Though the Holocaust is a central
event in Jewish history, Holocaust education is mandatory in the state education system in Israel, and some research has investigated
the impact of this education, the field has not been conceptualized systematically (Blatman in Bishvilei haZikaron 7:15–16,
1995; Feldman in Bishvilei haZikaron 7:8–11, 1995; Ofer in Jewish Educ 10:87–108, 2004b; Schatzker in Int J Polit Educ 5(1): 75–82, 1982). This article attempts to organize the existing knowledge on the subject through a meta-analysis of the foundations and
basic premises of Holocaust education in Israel, using the most important literature in the area. It first suggests a conceptual
framework, organizing by period the changing attitudes toward the Holocaust in general and Holocaust education in particular.
It then describes Holocaust education over the years, and finally analyzes the goals of Holocaust education, along with its
major dilemmas and challenges. 相似文献
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Laura Black Julian Williams Paul Hernandez-Martinez Pauline Davis Maria Pampaka Geoff Wake 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2010,73(1):55-72
The construct of identity has been used widely in mathematics education in order to understand how students (and teachers)
relate to and engage with the subject (Kaasila, 2007; Sfard & Prusak, 2005; Boaler, 2002). Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), this paper adopts Leont’ev’s notion of leading activity in order to explore the key ‘significant’ activities that are implicated in the development of students’ reflexive understanding
of self and how this may offer differing relations with mathematics. According to Leont’ev (1981), leading activities are those which are significant to the development of the individual’s psyche through the emergence
of new motives for engagement. We suggest that alongside new motives for engagement comes a new understanding of self—a leading identity—which reflects a hierarchy of our motives. Narrative analysis of interviews with two students (aged 16–17 years old) in post-compulsory
education, Mary and Lee, are presented. Mary holds a stable ‘vocational’ leading identity throughout her narrative and, thus,
her motive for studying mathematics is defined by its ‘use value’ in terms of pursuing this vocation. In contrast, Lee develops
a leading identity which is focused on the activity of studying and becoming a university student. As such, his motive for
study is framed in terms of the exchange value of the qualifications he hopes to obtain. We argue that this empirical grounding
of leading activity and leading identity offers new insights into students’ identity development. 相似文献
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James S. Sweet 《The Journal of environmental education》2013,44(4):32-33
Abstract Different environmental education programs (field trips, hiking, camps, adventure activities) aim to develop pupils' affective relationship to the natural environment, their environmental sensitivity, and outdoor behavior, as well as their social relationships, through personal experiences. This study discusses the results of experiences from outdoor activities involving 11- and 12-year-old pupils in Rovaniemi and Vaasa, Finland. The qualitative research methods comprised case studies involving questionnaires, individual interviews, drawings, photographs of landscapes, and participant observations during camps. Nature experiences developed the pupils' self-confidence and feelings of safety, in particular, which in turn increased their willingness to participate in future outdoor activities. In this way, nature began to have new meanings for them on a personal level. Comparing pupils who were experienced in outdoor activities with pupils who were not, it was found that the former seemed to have a strong and clearly definable empathic relationship to nature. They also exhibited better social behavior and higher moral judgements. The reasons for conflicts between environmental attitudes and action, still observable in some experienced boys of the Vaasa group, are discussed in terms of conscious vs. unconscious action and applied knowledge. The role and possibilities of outdoor education in environmental education and natural studies are emphasized for schools as well as for teacher education. 相似文献
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Klas Sandell 《Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning》2013,13(1):36-55
The purpose of this paper is to suggest an outdoor education model that respects the need to critically discuss the general belief in a causal relationship between experiences of nature, environmentally-friendly attitudes and behavioural change, but that at the same time respects the legitimate claims on the part of outdoor education practice for concretisation and clarity. The foundation of this model consists of a combination of theoretical perspectives and models that have been generated through a number of Swedish interdisciplinary research projects concerning human interrelationships with the landscape during the last decade. The paper first focuses on the subtleties of environmental concern with the aid of an environmentally historic model of how care for nature and environmental protection successively developed during the last century. It then addresses different aspects of outdoor education by presenting two specific models: a model of two principally diverse motives for this education, and a model of three different approaches to the landscape when executing outdoor education. In the final section these models are assembled in a suggested model for outdoor education and environmental concern, and identify a handful of main educational paths. The paper concludes with a brief discussion about continued research and examples of what can be regarded as particularly important developments and additions to the suggested model. 相似文献
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The overall aim of this article is to develop in-depth knowledge about the connection between outdoor experiences and moral attitudes towards nature. The study focuses on processes in which moral relations are at stake in encounters between students and nature. The purpose is to identify such events, describe their specific circumstances and clarify how moral relations are established in these events. The empirical material consists of video-recordings of activities in three different outdoor education practices. In order to identify and categorise moral situations, an analytical tool called the ethical tendency is used. This tool is based on Wittgenstein’s language game method. The findings show that in the investigated outdoor education practices, moral relations towards nature are established in several different ways. The article concludes with four educational implications: responsibility when dealing with moral reactions; bringing ethical questions to the fore; different educational conditions create different encounters with nature; and the consequences of different language games. 相似文献
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The use of peer assessment (PA) as an alternative form of evaluation method is reported to be helpful in learning and is increasingly
being adopted in higher education settings. Through collecting data from 280 university students in Taiwan, a 20-item instrument
was developed to investigate university students’ attitudes toward and perceptions of PA and online PA. Four subscales, Positive
Attitudes, Online Attitudes, Understanding-and-Action, and Negative Attitudes, were extracted and reliabilities were calculated.
Results revealed that participating students held positive attitudes toward the use of PA activities, but they viewed online
PA as a technical tool to facilitate assessment processes, rather than as a learning aid. Male students had more positive
attitudes toward PA than females did, and students with previous PA experiences had less negative attitudes toward PA. A majority
of these students suggested that the PA score should be counted as a small part of the total course grade, and there was an
effect of the perceived importance of PA score on students’ attitudes toward these four subscales. 相似文献
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In Continuous Education curricula in Spain, the programs on sciences of the environment are aimed toward understandings of
sustainability. Teaching practice rarely leaves the classroom for outdoor field studies. At the same time, teaching practice
is generally focused on examples of how human activities are harmful for ecosystems. From a pedagogic point of view, it is
less effective to teach environmental science with negative examples such as catastrophe, tragedy, and crisis. Rather, teaching
environmental sciences and sustainable development might be focused on positive human-environment relationships, which is
both important for the further development of students and educators. Within rural settings, there are many such examples
of positive relationships that can be emphasized and integrated into the curriculum. In this article, we propose teaching
environmental sciences through immersion in rural cultural life. We discuss how fieldwork serves as a learning methodology.
When students are engaged through research with traditional cultural practices of environmental management, which is a part
of the real and traditional culture of a region, they better understand how positive pedagogy instead of pedagogy structured
around how not-to-do examples, can be used to stimulate the interactions between humans and the environment with their students.
In this way, cultural goods serve as teaching resources in science and environmental education. What we present is authentic
cases where adults involved in a course of Continuous Education explore ‘environmentally-friendly’ practices of traditional
agriculture in Asturias (north of Spain), employing methodologies of cultural studies. 相似文献
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Civic responsibility as an ideal of higher education is rarely considered through a cultural and theoretical lens. Swidler’s
(1986, American Sociological Review, 51: 273–286) framework linking ideology, culture and action was used in this ethnographic study of a research university
(a) to understand dominant institutional beliefs about civic responsibility and (b) to understand how institutional culture
contributes to a unique approach to civic responsibility. This study examined campus ideologies and cultural forms that addressed
five dimensions of civic responsibility: (a) knowledge and support of democratic values, systems and processes, (b) desire
to act beneficially in community and for its members, (c) use of knowledge and skills for societal benefit, (d) appreciation
for and interest in those unlike oneself, and (e) personal accountability. The “role model” approach emerged as a unique institutional
approach to civic responsibility and aligned with Swidler’s framework. Findings are significant for both organization studies
and student development research. 相似文献
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In recent years, rapid changes in the Earth's climate and environment have influenced our lives greatly. The ocean occupies 70% of the Earth's surface and is intimately related to the regulation of climate, fostering of life, and also to social economy, as well as sports and leisure. Students in the senior years of primary education are in a phase of developing value systems. Concurrently, these students are also constantly using the Earth's resources. More importantly, they will play leading roles in the next generation. From the perspective of education, the learning status of student's cognition, attitudes, and behaviors regarding protection of the marine environment must be understood more clearly to avoid future mismanagement of marine environmental problems on the part of these students. Hence, this study uses correlative, regressive, and path statistical analysis to examine data collected from questionnaires. Results show that student knowledge of and attitudes toward marine environmental protection do not have significant influences on behaviors; however, student's marine environmental protection knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors are all within the medium to high range. Because of relatively low student curricular involvement, and because involvement has no correlation with knowledge performance, this study infers that school curricula are not the main sources of student information and attitudes regarding marine environmental protection. Rather, building student attitudes toward marine environmental protection by increasing their involvement in field trips indirectly influences behaviors that are protective of the marine environment. Such an approach is comparatively more effective and can serve as a reference for modifying the implementation methods of marine protection curricula. 相似文献
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本文采用自编问卷对289名大学生进行社会责任意识的现状调查。调查表明大学生总体是积极向上的,具有较为强烈的社会责任意识,但其中少数大学生仍存在着家庭责任心不强,对社会发展关注不高等问题。高校应该通过改进传统教育模式,发挥环境育人功能,依托情感教育和价值观教育,增强大学生社会责任的主体意识,提升当代大学生社会责任意识教育。 相似文献
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Over the past thirty years, it has often been stated that primary school education should endeavour to improve and protect
the environment through producing an ‘environmentally informed, committed and active citizenry’. Even so, existing research
shows that the implementation of environmental education in primary schools is problematic and has had limited success. However,
the reasons for these shortcomings are far from clear, with present research merely speculating about barriers to effective
implementation. This paper presents a detailed discussion and analysis of primary school teachers knowledge and beliefs about
environmental concepts and environmental education. In so doing, the paper identifies a perceived gap within the field of
environmental education research and literature. This field has neglected studies of Australian primary school teacher’s knowledge
and beliefs about environmental education as a factor affecting the capacity of schooling to achieve environmental education
goals. To these ends, we utilise the concept of ‘environmental literacy’ to assess primary school teacher’s knowledge and
beliefs about environmental education. Based upon preliminary data analysis, we tentatively claim that current Queensland
primary school teachers are variably committed to and demonstrably lack content knowledge of environmental concepts and environmental
education. More significantly, these primary school teachers tend to dismiss the importance of content knowledge, preferring
to focus upon attitudes towards environmental education and environmental concepts. Clearly these levels of environmental
literacy are inadequate if environmentally literate students and thus an environmentally literate citizenry are to be achieved
within schools. We conclude that the introduction of environmental literacy in educational policy would advance the goals
of environmental education, namely the production of an informed, committed and active citizenry. 相似文献
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‘Environmentalizing’ curriculum in Brazil is a worthy goal of global educational reform for sustainability but is challenging given the limits to rational change thesis already argued in critical social science and post-structural deconstructionism. The federal government mandate to environmentalize undergraduate physical education programs poses the question of which aspects of physical education are conducive to change. ‘Nature’ sports, or outdoor/adventure activity education, is the most likely candidate. In Australia over the past three decades, the environmentalization of ‘old’ physical education outdoor activities has led to the development of ‘new’ discourse practices that integrate environmental studies and outdoor education and are designed for ecological responsibility and social sustainability. In this culturally comparative light about the possibilities for curriculum change in environmental, outdoor and physical education, we examine the potential for change in Brazilian approaches to physical and sport education by critiquing broader ‘environmentalizing’ issues as they have occurred historically within the Australian outdoor education context in the university and secondary schooling sectors. 相似文献
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刘静 《南昌教育学院学报》2012,(7):154-155
二语习得理论是一个极为综合性的学术体系,其包含了诸多与语言教育相关的教研典范,并逐渐演变成各种理论性的教育思想,指导着高校英语教学活动的有序开展。"环境论"是二语习得理论的一个重要分支,强调了外在环境对大学生学习英语知识的影响,倡导教师在实际教学期间注重主客观环境的创造,提供优越的英语学习条件。文章分析了二语习得环境论的核心内容,详细地提出了基于环境论的大学英语教育改革措施。 相似文献