scholarly journals Differences in Environmental Information Acquisition from Urban Green—A Case Study of Qunli National Wetland Park in Harbin, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8128
Author(s):  
Xun Zhu ◽  
Yaqian Zhang ◽  
Wei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Bird Watching ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Urban Wetland

(1) Environmental education in an urban setting is crucial in terms of building a harmonious relationship between man and nature. As a kind of special ecological habitat, urban wetland parks provide convenience to enhance education on the natural environment. (2) In this study, we chose Harbin Qunli National Wetland Park in China as the subject, and analyzed the visual attention area with eye tracking to explore the differences in obtaining information about the natural environment in tourists with varying degrees of environmental concern and purposes of visit. A model connecting the perception preference and factors that affect visual attention of tourists was constructed. (3) Studies have shown that eco-society-hedonic tourists, who focus on parent–child activities, tend to pay more attention to wetland plants and prefer exploratory paths, while eco-hedonic tourists, whose main purposes are to relax and exercise, are more concerned about explanatory signs and enjoy flat scenic paths more. In addition, social tourists, who pay their visit for social activities, would care more about bird watching structures. (4) This research aims to assist in improving the legibility of environmental education space through the planning, design, and management of urban wetland parks, and explore the potential of landscape elements in enhancing public awareness.

scholarly journals Does a National Park Enhance the Environment-Friendliness of Tourists as an Ecotourism Destination?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8321
Author(s):  
Eunseong Jeong ◽  
Taesoo Lee ◽  
Alan Dixon Brown ◽  
Sara Choi ◽  
Minyoung Son
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
National Park ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
The Relationship

Governments have designated national parks to protect the natural environment against ecosystem destruction and improve individuals’ emotional and recreational life. National parks enhance environment-friendly awareness by conducting ecotourism activities and individuals with environment-friendly awareness are inclined to continue to visit national parks as ecotourism destinations. The New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) is a widely used measure of environmental concern, suitable for measuring the environment-friendly attitude and revisit intention of visitors of national parks. Therefore, the study carried out structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the relationship between the NEP, national park conservation consciousness and environment-friendly behavioral intention. Based on the results, an implication is presented to induce national parks to cultivate individual environment-friendly awareness and for visitors to pursue sustainable, environment-friendly tourism behavior. The findings indicate that national parks are to expand educational programs and facilities for eco-tourists visiting national parks to maintain a balanced relationship between themselves and nature and have a strong environmental awareness to preserve the natural environment.

scholarly journals From Environmental Awareness to Environmental Responsibility: Towards a Stewardship Curriculum

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Ajayi C. Omoogun ◽  
Etuki E. Egbonyi ◽  
Usang N. Onnoghen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Environmental Curricula

<p>The period of environmentalism heightened environmental concern and subsequently the emergence of Environmental Education that is anchored on awareness. It is thought that increase in environmental awareness will reverse the misuse of the environment and its resources. Four decades after the international call for Environmental Education, Earth’s degradation is far from abating as it’s pristinity is consistently and irreversibly being eroded by no less than from anthropocentric activities. Humans have seen themselves as the dominant species that is apart and not part of the organisms that constitute the environment. The philosophical value free nature concepts and the theological assumption that human are the ultimate species together with the rise of capitalism and its surrogates consumerism together conspire to diminuate environmental health. To protect the environment therefore, we must refocus EE to change human’s view of the environment and attitude towards the utilization of its resources. Environmental education can become more effective in creating respect for the environment. This paper examined the failure of efforts at addressing environmental issues via environmental education. The paper posits that environmental problems are on the increase due to lack of deliberate responsibility and stewardship, lack of a unique EE curricula and ineffective pedagogy. We suggest therefore that EE can target human perception and attitude and direct then towards biocentric stewardship for the environment. This can be achieved through a deliberate pedagogy of environmental values that promotes sustainable attitude and respect for the environment. Humans must bear the burden of responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of the environment. We must replace the philosophical value free nature concepts that nature is a common commodity and the theological assumption that humans are the ultimate species. We must also rethink our consumerism nature and the endless faith in the efficacy of technology to solve reoccurrence human induced ecological problems. These issues must be embedded in the school curriculum. Pedagogical approach to EE should essentially be the experiential model. The school curriculum must be the carrier and doer of these values that are crucial to the sustainability of the environment. Environmental ethics, environmental code of conduct, environmental nationalism, nature as manifestation of God, ascetic consumerism are recommended as key component of environmental curricula and pedagogy.<strong> </strong></p>

scholarly journals Fables as Media of Environmental Education for Sentani Children in Jayapura Regency, Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Wigati Yektiningtyas ◽  
Evalina Silalahi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Innovative Materials ◽  
Well Data

Abstract: Fable is one of Sentani verbal folklore that was passed down by parents to children to teach morals. One of them is about the importance of preserving environment. Nowadays, unfortunately, fable is not frequently told anymore. Children and even most Sentani people do not recognize it.  From long observation, Sentani children do not pay attention much to the nature as well.  Data of fables were obtained from some informants, i.e. tribal chiefs (ondofolo, khote) and elderly people in East Sentani  (Ayapo, Waena, and Asei Island) and Central Sentani (Sentani and Ifale) in  2017-2018. By adopting socio-cultural approach, this paper aims to discuss about (1) the natural environment of Sentani people, (2) the use of fables in environmental education for children. This study found that (1) fable is  creative and innovative materials in teaching children about environment: nature, fauna, and flora that can be  done informally, nonformally, and formally, (2) children have emotional ties with the fables and want to learn more, and (3)  it is  an alternative way of revitalizing Sentani fables and disseminating the socio-cultural values embedded in them. This study is benefecial to motivate Sentani children  to learn more about their ancestor’s heritages, love their environment,  and be proud of their identity. Key words: fable, environment, Sentani folklore, revitalizationAbstrak: Fabel merupakan salah satu folklor verbal Sentani yang dahulu dituturkan secara oral dari para orang tua ke anak-anak untuk menyampaikan berbagai ajaran moral. Salah satunya adalah tentang pentingnya merawat lingkungan. Saat ini, fabel sudah jarang dituturkan lagi. Anak-anak bahkan sebagian orang Sentani tidak mengenalinya.  Melalui pengamatan yang cukup lama, anak-anak Sentani kini tidak lagi memperhatikan lingkungan hidup mereka. Data fabel dikumpulkan dari para informan, yaitu para pemangku adat (ondofolo, khote) dan para tua-tua adat di Sentani Timur  (Ayapo, Waena, dan Pulau Asei) dan  Sentani  Tengah (Sentani dan Ifale) pada 2017-2018. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan sosial-budaya, paper ini bertujuan untuk membahas (1) lingkungan alam masyarakat Sentani dan (2) penggunaan fabel dalam pendidikan lingkungan bagi anak-anak. Studi ini menemukan bahwa (1) fabel merupakan materi yang kreatif dan inovatif untuk mengajarkan anak-anak tentang lingkungan: alam, fauna, dan flora yang dapat dilakukan secara informal,  nonformal, dan  formal, (2) anak-anak mempunyai hubungan emosi dengan fabel yang dipelajarinya dan ingin belajar lebih banyak fabel, (3)  penggunaan fabel sebagai pengajaran merupakan cara alternatif dalam merevitalisasi dan diseminasi fabel  Sentani dan nilai sosial-budaya yang terdapat di dalamnya. Studi ini bermanfaat untuk memotivasi anak-anak Sentani untuk terus mempelajari dan mencintai pusaka budaya leluhur mereka, mencintai lingkungan hidup mereka,  dan bangga akan indentitas mereka.   Kata kunci: fabel, lingkungan,  folklor  Sentani, revitalisasi

scholarly journals A Educação Ambiental no Ecoturismo e no Turismo de Aventura: estudo de caso do Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, Núcleo Santa Virgínia (SP)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Bacchi ◽  
Odaléia Telles Marcondes Machado Queiroz ◽  
Zysman Neiman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Conservation Unit ◽  
Serra Do Mar ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Subject

O presente estudo foi realizado no Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, Núcleo Santa Virgínia (SP), local de grandes atrativos ecoturísticos, sendo sua visitação voltada para as trilhas e o rafting, prática que ocorre no Rio Paraibuna com o uso de botes. Visitantes são acompanhados por monitores, ambiente propício para a realização de um estudo de caso que busca analisar quanti-qualitativamente a Educação Ambiental no ecoturismo e no turismo de aventura. Questionários foram aplicados aos turistas, entrevistas semiestruturadas aos monitores ambientais, à operadora de rafting que atua no local ao gestor da unidade. Foi realizada observação participante nas trilhas e no rafting. Verificou-se que a grande maioria dos visitantes está aberta à Educação Ambiental, a praticar o ecoturismo para ter contato com a natureza e aprender algo novo. Percebeu-se que existe um esforço da gestão do Núcleo Santa Virgínia, e dos monitores para realizar a prática educativa, porém ainda não há uma definição clara por parte destes do que seria a Educação Ambiental. A falta de discussão sobre o tema e a não percepção dos potenciais e limitações da Educação Ambiental no ecoturismo local pode levar a esforços que não gerem as transformações desejadas, apesar do potencial intrínseco do ambiente natural em proporcionar mudanças de visão e atitudes individuais. Environmental Education in Ecotourism and Adventure Tourism: case study of Serra do Mar State Park, Santa Virgínia Nucleus (SP, Brazil) ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, Núcleo Santa Virgínia - SP, site of major ecotourism attractions, being the visitation oriented for trekking and rafting, a practice that occurs in Rio Paraibuna, using boats. Visitors are accompanied by monitors, a favorable environment for the conduct of a case study that seeks to analyze quantitative and qualitative the environmental education in ecotourism and adventure tourism. Questionnaires were applied to tourists, semistructured interviews to environmental monitors, rafting operator and the manager of the conservation unit. Participant observations on the trails and rafting were done. The vast majority of visitors is open for environmental education, to practice ecotourism to have contact with nature and learn something new. It was noticed that there is an effort of the management of Santa Virgínia, and monitors to conduct educational practice during the tours, but there is still no clear definition on the part of those about what would be environmental education. The lack of discussion on the subject and the no perception of the potential and the limitations of environmental education in local ecotourism can lead to efforts that do not generate the desired transformations, despite the intrinsic potential of the natural environment to provide changes in view and in individual attitudes. KEYWORDS: Ecotourism; Environmental education; Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar; Núcleo Santa Virgínia; Case Study.

Popular Education for the Environment: Building Interest in the Educational Dimension of Social Action

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Starting Point

AbstractCommunity-based environmental education is an important part of the sustainability project. Along with regulation and market-based instruments, adult learning and education in non-formal settings consistently features in the sustainability strategies advocated and implemented by government, community and industry entities.Community-situated environmental education programs often feature didactic “messaging”™, public awareness and community-based social marketing approaches. Clearly, these approaches have limited capacity to stimulate the social learning necessary to reorient toward sustainability. Popular education provides a framework to break from these dominant modes of environmental communication and education and achieve outcomes of a different order. Popular educators build curriculum from the daily lives of community members, address their social, political and structural change priorities, and emphasise collective rather than individual learning. Their work creates opportunities for education as social action, education for social action, and learning through social action.Case studies from Australia and the United States highlight opportunities for community educators to draw on the traditions and practices of popular education. Residents of contaminated communities organise “toxic tours”™ to bolster their campaigns for remediation. Residents and conservationists concerned about freeway construction incorporate learning strategies in their campaign plan to enhance peer learning, mentoring and prospects of long-term success. Advocacy organisations and research institutions work together to create formal and informal educational programs to strengthen and learn from social action. The principles derived from these case studies offer a starting point for collaboration and action research.

Developments & Challenges in Australian Environmental Education

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Fensham
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Strong Action ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Political Priority

This year of 1990 is an appropriate time to review the place of environmental education in the Australian school curriculum. After a period in the mid 1980s when environmental issues and political attention to the environment were on the back burner in comparison with economic issues, the environment is again a top international political priority. With Green victories in a number of European elections, even the hitherto unmindful Thatcher government in Britain is claiming an environmental concern and announcing several conservation measures, albeit with rather distant targets compared with a number of their prospective partners in Europe.The Hawke government in its third term sensed a growing environmental disenchantment among its supporters, and appointed one of its heavy-weights to the Environment portfolio. This move, and the strong action he took over several sensitive issues, were enough to keep the Green preferences in line and ensure in 1990 a fourth, unprecedented Labor term of office.The first Australian government involving official Green support appeared in Tasmania and in most of the other states the governments have upgraded Conservation and the Environment among their ministries.Most Australians, according to a poll conducted late in May (The Age, 15 June, 1990), feel that the threat to the environment is real, and that its protection should be put ahead of economic growth. Such strong public support for the environment would have been unthinkable a decade ago, even though the evidence for much of the now widely recognised damage to the Australian and global environment was available.

The Revelation of Kitakyushu City’s Experience on Environmental Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 5189-5192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jing Fan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Production Knowledge ◽  
United Nation

With the rapid development of science and technology, we could enjoy more and more convenience of modern technology, we have to face the negative influence of modern technology on environment. The Kitakyushu city used to be one of most heavily air-polluted regions in Japan. Through decades of improvement on the environmental education, the Kitakyushu city become the ‘Demonstration city on environment protect of Japan’ and the ‘Typical city of environmental governance’ award by the United Nation. These effective measures include increasing the investment in the environmental education and scientific research, extensively conducting environmental education to improve the public awareness of environmental protection and promoting the integration and transformation of production, knowledge and research on environmental protection. This paper studied the main steps that the Kitakyushu city take to improve its environment pollution and analyze the revelation of these useful measures to China’s environmental education.

scholarly journals Percepção Ambiental em uma Ação Pedagógica para Alunos do Ensino Médio em Juína-MT: Educação Ambiental em Foco

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Victor Luiz Duarte Rigotti ◽  
Thaís Vasconcelos Silva ◽  
Maria Aparecida da Silva Alves ◽  
Renata Freitag
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Urban Pollution ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
School Students ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Environmental Education Policy

A Lei nº 9.795 de 27 de abril de 1999, que institui a Política Nacional de Educação Ambiental, em seu artigo 5º, recomenda como referência os Parâmetros e as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais, na inclusão da Educação Ambiental, em todos os níveis e modalidades de ensino, observando-se que deve haver a integração da educação ambiental às disciplinas de modo transversal, contínuo e permanente. Diante deste cenário, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo verificar a percepção de estudantes do Ensino Médio na identificação dos tipos de poluição encontrados em ruas, na cidade de Juína-MT. A atividade foi desenvolvida na Escola Estadual Dr. Artur Antunes Maciel durante as aulas da disciplina de biologia no ano letivo de 2014. A pesquisa foi realizada com alunos do terceiro ano matutino. A turma foi dividida em três grupos, cada qual se comprometeu em fazer 40 imagens fotográficas com registros de poluição em quatro ruas urbanas. Todos os resultados foram tabelados e classificados em poluição do ar, da água, do solo e sonora. Esta pesquisa otimizou a relação entre os alunos e a sociedade, sendo uma excelente proposta para demais profissionais da educação. Portanto,  a educação é o ponto chave para o desenvolvimento sustentável, e que é preciso reestruturar o processo de ensino, rever as atitudes e o comportamento em busca do equilíbrio entre o Homem e a Natureza. Palavras-chave: Poluição Urbana. Educação Ambiental. Sensibilização Ambiental. AbstractLaw N°. 9,795 of April 27, 1999, which establishes a National Environmental Education Policy, in its article 5, as a reference to the National Curriculum Guidelines and Parameters, in the Inclusion of Environmental Education at all levels and observing that there must be an integration of the information to the disciplines in a transversal, continuous and permanent way. Given this scenario, the present work had the objective of identifying high school students in the identification of the types of media found in the city of Juína-MT. The class was developed at the State School Dr. Artur Antunes Maciel during biology classes in the academic year of 2014. The class was divided into three groups, each of which committed to make 40 photographic images with pollution records on four urban streets. The results were tabulated and classified as air, water, soil and noise pollution. This research optimized the relationship between students and society, being one of the proposals presented for the number of education professionals. Therefore, education is the key to sustainable development, which is necessary for the teaching process, to revise attitudes and behavior in search of the balance between Man and Nature. Keywords: Urban Pollution. Environmental Education. Environmental Awareness.

scholarly journals The positive aspects of the natural environment in shaping the regional identity of young people

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Maria Adamczewska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
High Position ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Education Levels

Abstract The relations between man and nature constitute an immemorial subject of the geographical research. Man, while striving to understand the surrounding world and its secrets, simultaneously alters and transforms it. The importance of knowing the rules of rational functioning in the natural environment, especially in the modern, globalized world is proven by it being a subject of schooling at all education levels. The purpose of the students gaining knowledge on the natural environment and the rules of its normal functioning in order to provide a balanced development thereof, is also meant to shape appropriate attitudes, consciousness and responsibility for the natural environment, both in the global and local aspects. Therefore, an attempt to determine the significance of the natural environment in shaping the sense of local identity in young people has been made. Studies on the local and regional identity have been conducted with the high schoolers from the Łódź voivodeship using the survey method. The results of the research allowed to determine the level of knowledge on the natural environment in the area of the students’ places of residence, including the areas protected by law. A high importance of natural values in shaping the pride of a person’s place of residence was also proven. Moreover, it turned out that the advantages of the natural habitat are in a high position in terms of areas considered “magical places”. The natural environment values are more likely to shape local identities in students residing in rural areas, in a direct neighbourhood of protected areas, forests or rivers.

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