Influences on children’s environmental cognition: a comparative analysis of New Zealand and Mexico
| Autor: | Eva Vass, Claire Freeman, Ikerne Aguirre-Bielschowsky |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Environmental Education Research. 18:91-115 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5871 1350-4622 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13504622.2011.582093 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates Mexican and New Zealand children’s conception of the environment and their understandings of environmental issues, focusing on how personal experiences, culture and school-based environmental education (EE) programmes influence their perspectives. Sixty Year 5 children (age 9–11) from three schools in Dunedin (New Zealand) and three schools from Ensenada (Mexico), their teachers and school principals were interviewed. The study found that children from both cities had limited opportunities for contact with nature. Most children understood the environment as nature, and did not typically link environmental problems to human activities or social causes. Rarely were children critical of the effect of socio-economic structure on the environment. The analysis shows that children’s understandings of the environment are connected to their personal experiences and mediated by culture. Children from Ensenada had a more global perspective on environmental issues but a more passive attitude t... |
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