scholarly journals The Nature of Imagination in Education for Sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Knowing

The importance of imagination in education has a significant history (Egan, 1986, 2001; Eisner, 1976; Greene, 1988; Steiner, 1954; Warnock, 1976); however, scholarship is often theoretical, and the involvement of imagination in understanding sustainability is often overlooked (Jones, 1995; Judson, 2010; Stewart, 2009). Imagination has rarely been the subject of Environmental Education (EE) and research. Its nature is contested, and its workings can be concealed by formal notions of knowing and learning. Contemporary environmental philosophies argue that education can often contradict its aims through limited understandings of environment and knowledge (Orr, 1991, 1992; Weir, 2008; Whitehouse, 2011). This thesis reconceptualises imagination as a way of knowing and learning in environmental terms. The study investigates the role of imagination in Education for Sustainability (EfS) contexts and critically analyses how imagination is involved in understanding sustainability for teachers and learners. The possibility of imaginationasenvironmental knowledge, and as essential to resolving environmental problems, is applied in this research.

THE NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE FOR FORMING THE DOCTOR'S COMPETENCIES IN THE MODERN WORLD

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Lazareva N.V.
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
Modern World

The article discusses the need for environmental knowledge for the formation of the competence of a doctor in higher education. Possible points of view on the nature of the educational process are shown and argued, which allow integrating the body of acquired knowledge into the field of medical practice. The features of design technologies are revealed and the advantages of its use in the training of medical specialists are given, from the point of view of the professional development of doctors. The article is devoted to the actualization and significance of environmental education, with the aim of forming environmental awareness and educating the population, for processing sustainable development of society. One of the important directions associated with solving environmental problems at the present stage is environmental education and upbringing of medical students and the formation of environmental culture. Environmental education both in the world and in Russia is considered today a priority area of training and education of students at all levels of education. We have substantiated the relevance and relationship of environmental education and upbringing, disclosed their essence, objectives, content, principles, forms and methods of work; the analysis of the state is given, the mechanism of elaboration of certain aspects of the problem is characterized, etc. Achieving sustainable development and environmental safety of territories, solving global environmental problems, is impossible without the foundation of the foundations of a culture of environmental management and environmental education of the population. The variant used in the training of specialists in the field of medicine has shown high efficiency in the formation of practice-oriented competencies of a medical graduate.

If they Treated the Whole World like a National Park: Environmental Education by Teachers and Rangers

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Slattery ◽  
Alison Lugg
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Nature Study ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Potential Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Community Issues

AbstractThis paper considers the role of rangers and education officers who present and represent their park on school trips to national parks, and their interactions with teachers who organise those trips. These shared encounters are commonplace events. They have an important potential and actual role in environmental education, but have not been the subject of much research. Both the teachers' environmental education objectives and the possibilities offered by parks are wide: nature study, ecology, parks as natural and cultural heritage, land management and community issues, recreational activities and their consequences. However this breadth of potential activity possibly exacerbates a gap between the two cultures that meet on such encounters, a gap that needs to be addressed if the participants are to be able to maximise their shared and separate concerns.Using semi-structured interviews, our research looked at the strengths and limitations of several school visits for both teachers and ranger. In this paper we report particularly on the importance of the ranger in the process. We suggest that the role of the ranger is an undervalued and under-supported link in effective environmental education.

scholarly journals Characterization of Environmental Education in Spanish Geography Textbooks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1159
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio García-González ◽  
Saúl García Palencia ◽  
Irene Sánchez Ondoño
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Primary And Secondary Education ◽  
Official Curriculum ◽  
The Subject

Environmental problems endanger the sustainability and survival of our planet. A way to raise awareness of the seriousness of the current environmental situation among future citizens and instill proactive behaviors that place the environment at the center of decision-making is environmental education. This study analyzes nine primary and secondary education textbooks in order to see what environmental education students receive as part of the subject of geography across the years of compulsory education in Spain. These textbooks are published by three different and main companies, which are a good example of the adaptation of the official curriculum. The study was conducted using the design and development of a coding sheet combining analysis of format (quantitative) and content (qualitative). The results show much room for improvement there is in environmental education in Spain. This improvement should start from the organization of the curriculum and its subsequent transposition into the textbooks. Thus, many changes are needed if we wish to build a society capable of effectively solving the threat of the environmental problems that surround us.

scholarly journals INTERDEPENDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Станіслав Пономаренко
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
The Relationship

The article considers the main stages of the education system development, revealing the presence of an ecological component in it, reveals the relationship between environmental culture and environmental education. It is established that the education system still does not include as particularly important goals of personal knowledge and skills that shape its environmental culture, although the role of the latter in the formation of the value system of modern society is becoming increasingly important. The key to the formation of ecological culture is the education system, which, accumulating the achievements of science and practice, is able to change the way of life, human activity and society as a whole in accordance with the changes taking place in the biosphere. The effect of advancement in environmental education includes a number of basic characteristics, the implementation of which will result in an increase in the overall level of environmental culture. Environmental education is initiated by UNESCO (“Planet Survival Program”), the process of “landscaping” receives a theoretical basis and implementation in pedagogical practice, the credo of which is “to prepare people for dialogue with nature”. The public, concerned about the weakening of public attention to environmental education, is taking steps to change the situation to strengthen general environmental training in secondary and higher education, as an integral part of raising the level of environmental culture of the younger generation. It is proved that the family is the main center of society, the ecological component of which can be realized as parents, other family members are open to environmental problems. Preschools are designed to continue to perform the same function. With a favorable course of the process up to 5‒6 years, children form an idea of the relationship of natural phenomena with human activities. Underestimation of the role of this stage of the educational process distorts the perception of environmental problems in the future. New opportunities are concluded in the next stage of environmental education ‒ school and university. This is the main unit of the environmental education system.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Environmental Awarness:The Role of Ethic Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Indri Murniawaty
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Ethical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Universe

Environmental damage that occurred in Indonesia in the last three decades is due to human behavior by exploiting and depleting the universe in order to meet the interests and needs of human’s life. The objectives of this research were (1) to find out the direct effect of the students’environmental knowledge towards the environmental awareness, (2) to find out the indirect effect of the students' environmental knowledge towards the environmental awareness through ethics, (3) to find out the direct effect of student's ethics on environmental awareness. The sample of this research was the students of economic education who hadlearned the subject of environmental education. The researcher used a quantitative approach with explanatory research design to explain the state of each variable. Two things that contribute to environmental awareness were ethics and environmental knowledge. The results of this study showed that environmental and ethical knowledge significantly influenced environmental awareness. The environmental knowledge will shape students' attitudes and ethics towards the environment.

scholarly journals Alternativas para processos formativos de Educação Ambiental: a proposta da “(Com)Vivência Pedagógica” diante de grandes e radicais desafios

2017 ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Mauro Guimarães ◽  
Vicente Paulo dos Santos Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
De Se

A atual crise do capital materializada por inúmeros problemas socioambientais coloca inúmeros desafios para educação ambiental em todos os espaços da sociedade contemporânea. No que se refere a escola, esta conjuntura impõe a necessidade de se ir além da inserção da dimensão da temática ambiental numa perspectiva metodológica interdisciplinar. Para tanto, ressalta-se o papel de uma formação de educadores comprometidos, como militantes radicais da causa ambiental, como “sujeitos ecológicos” transformados e transformadores, dinamizadores de movimentos sociais contra hegemônicos em suas esferas de atuação. Diante disso, este artigo tem como objetivo central discutir possíveis alternativas da educação ambiental no contexto desses grandes desafios postos aos sistemas de ensino e à formação de professores no Brasil contemporâneo. Dá-se ênfase a proposta de articulação da “(Com)Vivência Pedagógica” com epistemologias que possam favorecer a formação de sujeitos dinamizadores de processos de transformação individual-coletiva da realidade em que vivemos. The current crisis of capital materialized by numerous socio-environmental problems poses numerous challenges for environmental education in all spaces of contemporary society. With regard to school, this situation imposes the need to go beyond the insertion of the dimension of the environmental theme in an interdisciplinary methodological perspective. For this, the role of a formation of committed educators, as radical militants of the environmental cause, as transformed and transforming "ecological subjects", is a role of social movements against hegemonic in their spheres of action. Therefore, this article has the main objective to discuss possible alternatives of environmental education in the context of these great challenges to the systems of education and teacher training in contemporary Brazil. Emphasis is given to the proposal of "Pedagogical Compatibility" with epistemologies that may favor the formation of subjects that are dynamic in the process of individual-collective transformation of the reality in which we live.

2. Understanding Environmental Problems

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-57
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fisher ◽  
Bettina Lange ◽  
Eloise Scotford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Limits Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject

This chapter is an introduction to environmental problems specifically written for those studying environmental law. Understanding environmental problems is not just of passing academic interest, but is, rather, essential for understanding environmental law. A good environmental lawyer has a sophisticated appreciation of environmental problems and understands in particular how their nature impacts on environmental law and practice. The extracts in the chapter are thus not just optional background reading but are essential for understanding the subject. This chapter covers the collective nature of environmental problems, the role and limits of knowledge in identifying and addressing environmental problems, the nature of environmental values and the important but contentious role of the state in environmental decision-making.

scholarly journals Signifikansi Pendidikan Lingkungan di Perguruan Tinggi

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gede H Cahyana
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The Government ◽  
Life Education ◽  
The University

Environmental education in Indonesia has not been given big attention yet, formal and nonformal, by the government. A little of local governments give their interest in environmental education in local subject of curriculum, especially in elementary, junior and senior high school. There are some differences in the name of the subject in universities. The subject of environmental knowledge (not education) has been studied since 1970’s. If so, is the university need the course of that if the sudents have get the local subject? Environmental education is the long life education, must be given from elementary or kindergarten to university and so after the student become apart of population in community, practically and/or theroterically.

scholarly journals EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL PARA LA SUSTENTABILIDAD EN EL DEPARTAMENTO DE SOCIOLOGÍA RURAL EN LA UNIVERSIDAD AUTONÓMA CHAPINGO, MÉXICO. (ESTADO DE CONOCIMIENTO 2002-2012)

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 338-356
Author(s):  
Angélica Delgadillo-Dávila ◽  
Liberio Victorino-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Substantial Progress ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Magazine Articles

Con esta investigación se  pretende conocer la producción y generación de conocimiento  sobre Educación  Ambiental para la Sustentabilidad en el Departamento de Sociología  Rural  Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, México, (Estado de conocimiento 2002-2012),  mediante la revisión de fuentes documentales: tesis, libros, artículos de revista etc.  y experiencias sobre la materia,  así como  elaborar  una clasificación de aquellos aspectos cualitativos ligados a la perspectiva teórica que se presenta en este trabajo. Con referencia al estudio realizado,  podemos señalar  que en este departamento no se incluye  en la licenciatura y posgrados,  Educación Ambiental para la  Sustentabilidad, sin embargo es importante  destacar que  existen avances sustanciales  en la investigación ,  ya que en algunas de sus producciones  y congresos internacionales  abordan este tema,  así como el enfoque personal de algunos profesores al impartir su catedra. La metodología empleada consistió en la revisión de producciones, así como aplicación de cuestionarios a alumnos, y entrevistas a personas especializadas en la materia,  del departamento de Sociología Rural de la Universidad Autónoma  Chapingo, México.Palabras clave: Educación ambiental, sustentabilidad, investigación, complejidad y transdiciplinaAbstractThis research studied the production and generation of knowledge on Environmental Education for Sustainability in the Department of Rural Sociology (State of the art 2002-2012), by reviewing documentary sources: thesis, books, magazine articles etc. and experiences on the subject, and developed a classification of those qualitative aspects related to the theoretical perspectives presented in this research with reference to the study realized. It is noted that undergraduate and graduate programs on Environmental Education for Sustainability is not included in this department; however, it is important to highlight that there is substantial progress in its research. Some of the production and papers presented at international conferences address this issue. Moreover, some professors individually approach the topic in the courses they give. The methodology used consisted of a review of production, application of questionnaires to students, and interviews with specialists in the matter from the Department of Rural Sociology of the Autonomous University of Chapingo, México.Keywords: environmental education, sustainability, research, complexity and transdisciplinarity.

Training Environmental Education Stakeholders for an Environment-Friendly Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-295
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Nwabueze Ezeanya
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Training Needs Assessment ◽  
Sub Saharan

The author outlines the environmental problems confronting Nigeria and suggests that its condition is typical of the deteriorating environment of Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context he stresses the role of education and public enlightenment in the emergence of an environment-friendly society He then sets out the findings of a training needs assessment carried out in Nigeria for Coordinators of School Conservation Clubs and Programme Managers in State Environmental Protection Agencies. The study shows that in general these professionals are not yet adequately prepared for their roles in the implementation of the environmental education curricula and public awareness programmes. This lack of preparedness relates to (a) knowledge of the causes and consequences of major environmental problems, and the actions needed to correct or avert them; (b) adoption of appropriate training methods and techniques; and (c) the systematic use of a variety of instructional resources. Finally recommendations are offered for training the stakeholders in order to bring them to an acceptable level of competence in the identified areas of deficiency.

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