ERIC Number: EJ1375318
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jun
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-1053-8259
EISSN: EISSN-2169-009X
Puzzle Pieces but Not the Big Picture--How Students from a Green School Perceive the Environmental Crisis from Teachers' Point of View
Journal of Experiential Education, v46 n2 p215-237 Jun 2023
Background: A Green school (GS) is one way to attempt to reduce the environmental crisis. Teaching in green schools, which is established on a place-based education (PBE) approach that adopts outdoor and experiential learning, should provide students with a holistic view of the environmental crisis that connects local processes to global processes. Purpose: To explore the environmental perspective of fourth-grade students who participate in an experiential outdoor PBE program by examining how they link local, natural phenomena to the global environmental crisis. Methodology/Approach: Phenomenological methods were used in the interpretive approach through student drawing and explanation analysis. Findings/Conclusions: Students could not seem to link the local natural phenomena to a more extensive picture of the global environmental crisis. Implications: We recommend that teachers in green schools who emphasize PBE rethink the incorporation of the concept of "environmental crisis." The analogy of assembling a puzzle may allow switching from looking at the global picture to examining at the local level. In this way, they may provide students with a more holistic view of the environmental crisis.
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Place Based Education, Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning, Consciousness Raising, Grade 4, Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Natural Disasters, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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