7.1 Citizen involvement in environmental education activities

Version 1.1 by Emily West on 2022/01/25 11:55

7.1 Citizen involvement in environmental education activities

Project Name: CONNECTING Nature

Pillar of Sustainable DevelopmentSocietal challenge
People7 - Knowledge and Social Capacity Building for Sustainable Urban Transformation
Description
EE opportunities generally designate educational programs sponsored by elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, youth camps, municipal recreation departments, local or international not-for-profit organizations, and private entrepreneurs.
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework
  • Neighborhood 
  • Street
  • Household
  • Object
Data source [ link to data framework]
  • Survey
Data needs
  • Essential: NBS characteristics for each city/site, more specifically objectives (long-term) and challenges
  • Desirable: evaluations of EE programs, especially of those designed to promote NBS
Expected Outputs
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Calculation methods
  • 1. Have you participated in an EE program in the past year?
    • Yes
    • No (skip to …)
  • 2. What was the main theme of the EE program you attended? (please indicate) ………………………………………………..
  • 3. How would you rate the applicability of the knowledge and skills acquired in the EE program?
    • 1 very low …..5 very high
  • 4. Have you had a chance to apply the knowledge and/or skills acquired since your participation in the EE program? If so, please describe.
    • Yes (please describe) …………………………………………………..
    • No
Links and references
  • Carter, R.L. & Simmons, B. (2010). History and philosophy of environmental education. In A.M. Bodzin, B.S. Klein and S. Weaver (Eds.) The inclusion of environmental education in science teacher education (pp. 3-16). Springer: New York, NY. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-9222-9_1
  • Cole, A. G. (2007). Expanding the Field: Revisiting Environmental Education Principles through Multidisciplinary Frameworks. Journal of Environmental Education, 38, 35–44. Retrieved from: https://www.threecircles.org/wp content/uploads/2016/04/Expanding-the-Field_Revisiting EE_Cole.pdf
  • Cruz Lasso de la Vega, R.M. (2004). Awareness, Knowledge, And Attitude About Environmental Education: Responses from environmental specialists, high school instructors, students, and parents. University of Central Florida Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 178. Retrieved from: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/178
  • Derr, V. (2017). Urban green spaces as participatory learning laboratories. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Urban Design and Planning, 171(1), 25-33.
  • Derr, V., & Kovács, I. G. (2015). How participatory processes impact children and contribute to planning: a case study of neighborhood design from Boulder, Colorado, USA. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 10(1), 29-48. doi: 10.1080/17549175.2015.1111925
  • Farmer, J., Knapp, D., & Benton, G. (2007). An Elementary School Environmental Education Field Trip: Long-Term Effects on Ecological and Environmental Knowledge and Attitude Development. Journal of Environmental Education, 38(3), 33- 42. doi: 10.3200/JOEE.38.3.33-42
  • Kopnina, H. (2013). Evaluating education for sustainable development (ESD): Using ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes toward the sustainable development (EAATSD) scale. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15, 607–623. doi: 10.1007/s10668-012-9395-z
  • Krasny, M. E., Kalbacker, L., Stedman, R.C., & Russ, A. (2015). Measuring Social Capital among Youth: Applications in Environmental Education. Environmental Education Research, 21 (1), 1–23. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2013.843647
  • Kudryavtsev, A., Stedman, R. C., & Krasny, M. E. (2012). Sense of place in environmental education. Environmental education research, 18(2), 229-250. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2011.609615
  • Kudryavtsev, A., Krasny, M. E., & Stedman, R. C. (2012). The impact of environmental education on sense of place among urban youth. Ecosphere, 3(4), 1-15. doi: 10.1890/ES11-00318.1
  • McBeth, W., & Volk, T. L. (2009). The National Environmental Literacy Project: A baseline study of middle grade students in the United States. The Journal of Environmental Education, 41(1), 55–67. doi: 10.1080/00958960903210031
  • Merenlender, A.M., Crall, A.W, & Drill, S. (2016). Evaluating environmental education, citizen science, and stewardship through naturalist programs. Conservation Biology, 00(0), 1- 11. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12737
  • Stapp, W. B., Havlick, S., Bennett, D., Bryan, W., Fulton, J., & MacGregor, J. (1969). The concept of environmental education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 1(1), 30–31. Retrieved from: http://www.hiddencorner.us/html/PDFs/The_Concept_of_EE.pdf
  • Tidball, K. G. & Krasny, M.E. (2010). Urban environmental education from a social-ecological perspective: conceptual framework for civic ecology education. Cities and the Environment, 3(11), 1- 20. doi: 10.15365/cate.31112010
  • UNESCO. (1978). The Tbilisi Declaration. Connect. UNESCO/UNEP Environmental Education Newsletter, 3(1), 1–8. Retrieved from: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000156393
  • Varela-Losada, M., Vega-Marcote, P., Pérez-Rodríguez, U., & Álvarez Lires, M. (2016). Going to action? A literature review on educational proposals in formal Environmental Education. Environmental Education Research, 22(3), 390-421. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2015.1101751
  • Wolsink, M. (2016a). Environmental education excursions and proximity to urban green space–densification in a ‘compact city’. Environmental Education Research, 22(7), 1049-1071. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2015.1077504
  • Wolsink, M. (2016b). ‘Sustainable City’ requires ‘recognition’—The example of environmental education under pressure from the compact city. Land Use Policy, 52, 174-180. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.018

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