Place-based education for environmental behavior: a ‘funds of knowledge’ and social capital approach

Cruz, Austin R.; Selby, Samantha T.; Durham, William H.

doi:10.1080/13504622.2017.1311842

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“…The main goal of such an educational reform is to change the school itself for promoting sustainability and helping today students to follow sustainable practices in their everyday life. Indeed, this educational reform is the tool for achieving sustainable development and instilling energy behavior into all levels of educational operation: teaching, social/organizational, and technical/financial [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. Educational activities play a dominant role to educate students on how to take initiatives, set goals, make decisions, handle information data, and be engaged in creative argumentation and productive criticism [67].…”

Section: Benefits Of Environmental Educationmentioning

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Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

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Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

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“…These considerations bear implications for the assumptions behind the goals, approaches to learning, and platforms for environmental education. The specific priorities and needs of constituencies in rural and developing areas has motivated placebased approaches to environmental education that seek to highlight local knowledge as a point of departure for conservation initiatives (e.g., Haywood et al 2016, Newman et al 2017, Cruz et al 2018. In a similar vein, environmental education in rural and developing areas underscores the importance of working to produce environmental leaders among local peoples (cf.…”

Section: Environmental Education Platformsmentioning

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Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil

Ribeiro¹,

Selaya²,

Perz³

et al. 2020

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Rural communities are important stewards of forests that provide valuable ecological services. This makes them vital allies to outside organizations seeking to support conservation and development initiatives. However, rural communities also have priorities and needs that may not align with the goals of conservation and development projects. This makes effective engagement of communities by outside organizations an important challenge. When rural communities lose traditional livelihood options, they prioritize economic benefits as a condition for participating in projects, and they exhibit "project fatigue" when many projects are imposed on their time. We reflect on our experience in seeking to align the goals of a conservation and development project with community priorities in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in Acre, Brazil. Our project featured capacity building for monitoring forest health to foster participation in payments for ecosystem services programs. Although we pursued prior consultations and designed participatory activities, and although we combined knowledge transmission with skills training, participation declined. That prompted our team to consult with community members, which generated important insights about expectations of immediate economic remuneration, community political cultures, communicative practices, and differences among local constituencies. These insights motivated adaptation of our practices via several strategies, such as focusing on young adults and holding workshops as part of community assemblies, which aligned project goals with the priorities of community members to improve project outcomes.

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“…Over the past three decades much research attention has been given to the importance of place in environmental education [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Place-based education had developed as a powerful pedagogy for connecting students with their immediate surroundings in holistic ways [8].…”

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Perception of Space among Children Studying Their Local Grasslands: Examining Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions

Eilam

Garrard

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The study examined children's perception of space in the context of place-based education. It investigates: the cognitive attitudinal dispositions involved in perceiving space as 'empty'; and, how students' attitudes toward one grassland site inform their attitudes and behavioural intentions when applied to similar spaces which are spatially and temporally remote. A group of urban primary students participated in a four-month environmental education program in which the students were immersed in a local grassland reserve through repeated visits and learning about grasslands. Data collection included surveys and a focus group activity concerning future neighbourhood planning. The results indicate that the children perceived as 'empty' spaces which were un-built, lacked human activities, or were un-identified on a map of the area. Students presented negative attitudes toward 'empty spaces' and were inclined to 'fill' them. In regard to future planning of their neighbourhood, high consistency was found between the students' positive attitudes and their intentions to preserve the studied grassland site. This alignment between attitudes and behavioural intentions became disentangled when applied to remote sites at future times. While attitudes remained positive, behavioural intentions were willing to forsake grassland sites. The implications of the findings to environmental education are discussed.

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Place-based education for environmental behavior: a ‘funds of knowledge’ and social capital approach

Cited by 22 publications

References 103 publications

Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil

Perception of Space among Children Studying Their Local Grasslands: Examining Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions

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