‘I saw a magical garden with flowers that people could not damage!’: children’s visions of nature and of learning about nature in and out of school
| Autor: | Isabel Menezes, Clementina Rios |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Outdoor education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Focus group language.human_language Education Environmental education Feeling Sustainability Situated Pedagogy language Sociology Portuguese business 0503 education Social psychology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1469-5871 1350-4622 |
| Popis: | This paper involves groups of children (aged 5–10) in discussing what nature is in their urban communities and how they learn about it. Children attend four urban and semi-urban Portuguese schools with different environmental pedagogies: Waldorf, forest school and eco-school. Previous studies of children’s conceptions of nature have mainly addressed environmental understanding as an individual dimension, even if acknowledging the situated nature of children’s knowledge and experience. In this study we draw on previous research, using focus groups as participatory methods that allow children to interact with their peers while expressing their visions and feelings about a topic. Group discussions show that children have a strong emotional connection with nature that generates a strongly protective disposition. Daily experiences in schools, families, and local communities but also the media reinforce this concern, and make children aware of a series of environmental problems, for which they either re... |
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