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Environmental education in Latvia
2012
This paper discusses the development of environmental education and education for sustainable development in Latvia since 1991. The article highlights best practices of environmental education in Latvia, which include curriculum and study materials development, active participation of various business enterprises in providing informal education, eco-school activities, etc. The objective of this paper is to share our experience with the international community and to promote a global dialogue in sustainable development.
Towards Municipal Environmental Development: Environmental Management Systems for Local Formal Education Establishments
2021
Educational institutions create certain environmental impacts in their operation – these impacts can be grouped into the sectors of waste, water, energy, transport and others. There is a need for educational institutions to adopt effective environmental management systems in order to reduce these impacts, as well as those of the whole municipality. The Eco-Schools programme is one of the most comprehensive and popular models of environmental education and management in the world. In recent years, the Eco-Schools programme has proved its effectiveness in numerous evaluations in several countries. The programme aims to raise awareness about environmental issues. Therefore, this programme enco…
Ecology in action. An educational experience
2020
espanolLos autores, profesores de Literatura y Ciencias Naturales en la Facultad de Magisterio de la Universidad de Valencia, han llevado a cabo una experiencia docente basada en la Ecocritica, cuyo diseno y resultados se presentan en este trabajo. Asi, ademas de desarrollar el planteamiento teorico-metodologico interdisciplinar que fundamenta esta experiencia, se describen las actividades didacticas generadas a partir del cuento “Anaconda” (1921), de Horacio Quiroga, que se han implementado en este curso 2016-2017. Estas intentan potenciar una lectura que prima la voz de la naturaleza, que esta vez toma cuerpo en los dialogos y reflexiones de las serpientes. Se rompe asi esa imagen atavica…
Análisis del concepto de biodiversidad en los libros de texto de segundo ciclo de primaria en la Comunidad Valenciana (España)
1969
En este trabajo se muestran los resultados de una investigación sobre el tratamiento de la biodiversidad que se da en los libros de texto de segundo ciclo de educación primaria. Para ello escogimos una serie de editoriales muy utilizadas por niños de edades comprendidas entre 8 y 10 años y realizamos un análisis de los textos mediante redes sistémicas, describiendo el lenguaje y las actividades utilizadas Nos centramos en el tratamiento que se daba al ecosistema, la variabilidad y el tratamiento conjunto, entendiéndolo como una relación sistémica entre los distintos elementos del ecosistema. En esencia, pretendíamos analizar los aspectos que relacionan la diversidad genética, las especies y…
Las Agendas 21 Locales en la Provincia de Valencia: Análisis de los municipios firmantes de la Carta de Xàtiva
2015
Los problemas medioambientales se han ido incrementando hasta adquirir dimensiones planetarias. Por lo que se hace necesario buscar la compatibilidad entre el crecimiento y la protección del medio ambiente. En este sentido, en la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo, celebrada en Río de Janeiro en 1992, se adquirió el compromiso de establecer políticas acordes con el desarrollo sostenible, a través de la implantación de las Agendas 21 Locales. Este documento reconoció el papel fundamental de las ciudades y pueblos, al considerar que es la unidad más pequeña donde se pueden dar solución a los problemas. El capítulo 28 del Programa 21 recogió la obligación de…
Do you like driving? A critical view on car advertising and its environmental rhetoric
2018
Sustainable development, as well as other narratives within the framework of environmental conservation, is often used as an advertising resource to improve a brand image. In this paper, a teaching proposal based on a critical analysis of the discourse of a set of television commercials is presented. Specific attention is given to the car industry, due to its huge environmental implications and its impact in mass media and popular culture. This study highlights that persuasive discourses around automobile still persist, which are more emotional than rational, as a way to elude the true debates about today's social and environmental challenges. El desarrollo sostenible, así como algunos otro…
Kestävä kehitys -aiheisen projektityön vaikutus 8.-luokkalaisten ympäristöasenteisiin ja käyttäytymiseen
2017
Ihmisen ja luonnon hyvinvoinnin kannalta on tärkeää, että ihmiset oppivat elämään kestävän kehityksen periaatteiden mukaisesti. Nuorten asenteet ympäristöä kohtaan ovat myönteisiä, mutta asenteet eivät heijastu suoraan käyttäytymiseen. Ympäristökasvatuksen tavoitteena on mahdollistaa jokaiselle ihmiselle kestävään elämään tarvittavien tietojen, taitojen ja asenteiden omaksuminen. Kestävään elämäntapaan kuuluu yksilötason toiminta, kuten kulutustottumukset, sekä yhteiskunnallinen osallistuminen ja vaikuttaminen. Kestävän elämäntavan opetuksen tulisi sisältää oman lähiympäristön asioihin vaikuttamisen harjoittelemista omassa oppilaitoksessa sekä yhteistyössä muiden yhteiskunnan toimijoiden ka…
“The tree was there first” – using an everyday ecological dilemma to explore the personal orientations of secondary school students in environmental …
2020
Studies have repeatedly shown that the goals of environmental education are as indispensable as they are difficult to achieve. In particular, the discrepancy between environmental awareness and eve...
Environmental learning in regions: a social capital based approach. The case of Latvia
2016
AbstractHow do people learn about the environment and behave accordingly? What is the cognitive process at the base of this learning mechanism? The present paper is a pilot work investigating the dynamics of individual environmental knowledge on the basis of social capital theory. Using Tsai and Ghoshal’s findings, a well known framework widely accepted in organizational studies which supports the existence of a relationship between structural, relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital, and between social capital and knowledge exchange, these dynamics are then tested in the context of environmental behaviour studies. The quantitative analysis is carried out by means of a structu…
A Proposal to Enrich Teachers' Perception of the State of the World: First results
2003
The 'state of the world' has become an object of growing concern during recent decades. For this reason educators have been asked to contribute to public awareness and understanding of the problems and challenges related to our planet's future, in order to make possible citizens' participation in well-grounded decision-making. In spite of these appeals, attention paid by science teachers and science education researchers to the present state and future of the world is still very slight and constitutes a serious missing dimension in science teachers' education. In this article we describe a workshop conceived to favour a better teacher perception of global problems and possible remedies, as …