Environmental Threats and Geographical Education: Students’ Sustainability Awareness—Evaluation

Urbańska, Magdalena; Charzyński, Przemysław; Gadsby, Helen; Novák, Tibor József; Yilmaz, Monica Denise

doi:10.3390/educsci12010001

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“…Despite such an optimistic attitude of young people to alluvial soils and the proposal of relatively simple solutions, soil science still remains one of the most "unattractive" sections of geography teaching (Urbańska et al, 2022). Environmental problems the student is aware of before discussing them in school show clear deficiencies in soil science education (also non-formal).…”

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Alluvial soils - a stream into soil awareness

Urbańska¹,

Charzyński²,

Świtoniak³

2022

Soil Sci. Ann.

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Alluvial soils cover about 5% territory of Poland and they are an important part of the environment of fl oodplains and river valleys. These soils have long been studied by soil scientists around the world. The high school students also have a relatively high knowledge of them in comparison with other soil types. Information about them is readily available in textbooks and on the internet. Is this enough to make alluvial soils the driving force behind efforts to popularize soil science? The aim of this paper is to diagnose the state of knowledge about these soils among high school students of Kuyavian-Pomeranian region as well as the assessment of their suitability in the soil awareness raising. Querying geography textbooks and internet sources as well as a survey method were used as the main research methods. Information on alluvial soils is commonly found in geography textbooks and websites. The awareness of soil distribution within Kuyavian-Pomeranian voivodship is the highest for alluvial soils among all studied types of soils. Respondents correctly assess the value of these soils and can identify ways to increase soil awareness among the public. Among the respondents there is a conviction that there is a need for changes in soil science education, especially in the fi eld of extracurricular activities. Suggestions for such activities are included in this publication. The Year of Alluvial Soils is a good opportunity to introduce new solutions in the popularization of soil science on a regional and national scale.

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“…Soil is one of the most important environmental components but its importance and threats resulting from human activities are undoubtedly poorly known to a large number of people (Charzyński et al, 2022;Urbańska et al, 2022). One of the challenges of the soil scientists should be to increase social awareness of the soil cover.…”

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Alluvial soils - a stream into soil awareness

Urbańska¹,

Charzyński²,

Świtoniak³

2022

Soil Sci. Ann.

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“…The advantage of using this structured planning tool is that a crowdsourcing exercise can be created that meets content-based learning objectives while teaching the students about crowdsourcing techniques and tools [10]. Many other disciplines, besides soil science, have topics with a geospatial component that could benefit from the planning method and technology used here [19].…”

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Teaching Field Data Crowdsourcing Using a GPS-Enabled Cellphone Application: Soil Erosion by Water as a Case Study

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Crowdsourcing is an important tool for collecting spatio-temporal data, which has various applications in education. The objectives of this study were to develop and test a laboratory exercise on soil erosion by water and field data crowdsourcing in an online introductory soil science course (FNR 2040: Soil Information Systems) at Clemson University. Students from different STEM disciplines (wildlife biology, forestry, and environmental and natural resources) participated in the study in the fall of 2021. They completed a sequence of self-contained digital teaching modules or reusable learning objects (RLOs), which are often used in online learning. The exercise included a field exercise and learning module to teach students about different types of water-based soil erosion as well as field data collection and crowdsourcing tools. As a result of this exercise, student familiarity with crowdsourcing was effectively increased, as shown by the post-assessment survey with a +31.2% increase in the “moderately familiar” category and a +28.3% increase in the “extremely familiar” category. The online quiz contained ten questions and was taken by 56 students with an average score of 9.5 (out of 10). A post-assessment survey found that most of the students indicated that the laboratory was an effective learning experience about field data crowdsourcing using a GPS-enabled cellphone application. Detailed students’ comments indicated enjoyment of learning (e.g., data collection, learning about different technologies), the value of multimedia (e.g., ArcGIS Survey123, cellphone), the flexibility of learning (e.g., field work), the content applicability (e.g., actual field examples of erosion by water), and criticism (e.g., technical issues). A word cloud derived from students’ comments about their laboratory exercise experience indicated the most frequent words used by students, such as “erosion”, “enjoyed”, and “different”, among others. Incorporating a learning module and field exercise using modern data collection technology into an undergraduate soil science education course enabled students to understand the value and methods for leveraging cellphone-based field collection methods to crowdsource data for environmental assessment. Practical recommendations for planning and executing future crowdsourcing exercises were developed using the current study as an example.

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“…In another study, it was determined that after the activity-based practices performed in the environmental education course, the scores of the attitude and behavior of the students concerning environmental problems increased and they acquired awareness, consciousness, and responsibility about the environmental problems along with these activities (Pullu and Pullu, 2021). In the study by Urbanska et al (2021), teachers used lectures, multimedia presentation, educational movies, and educational games in geography teaching.…”

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“…To make people aware of the importance of the environment, we should take care of education in relation to global challenges and sustainable development (Urbanska et al, 2021). Secondary school students had a high level of awareness about the concepts of environmental education overall (Ablak and Yesiltas, 2020).…”

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Environmental Problems and Education in Last Five Years

Sinan

Uşak²,

Sinan³

2022

AQUADEMIA

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Environmental education continues to be popular all the time. Researchers have been trying to raise awareness of people by doing valuable studies on this issue. However, it is very difficult to follow all of these studies. That is why this mini-review aims to present a bunch of studies on environmental pollution in the last 5 years for researchers. In order to achieve this aim, the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database was searched using the "Environmental" and "Pollution" keywords. Then the full-text articles directly related to environmental education since 2018 were summarized in a table in which countries they were made and which data collection tools were used. These studies were read independently by the researchers and qualitative data analysis was carried out. According to the results of the data analysis, four themes were created: i) Research on environmental education; ii) Teaching-learning method and activities about environmental education; iii) Literacy, knowledge, attitude, behavior and, awareness about environmental education; iv) COVID-19 and challenge. The relevant texts of the selected studies were placed into the appropriate theme. In the last part of the study, some suggestions were presented for future studies.

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Environmental Threats and Geographical Education: Students’ Sustainability Awareness—Evaluation

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Alluvial soils - a stream into soil awareness

Alluvial soils - a stream into soil awareness

Teaching Field Data Crowdsourcing Using a GPS-Enabled Cellphone Application: Soil Erosion by Water as a Case Study

Environmental Problems and Education in Last Five Years

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