Advancing Environmental Education Practice

Marianne E. Krasny (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2020
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4707-6 (ISBN)

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In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more effective to work with existing attitudes than to try to change them. The chapters expand the purview of potential outcomes of environmental education beyond knowledge and attitudes to include nature connectedness, sense of place, efficacy, identity, norms, social capital, youth assets, and individual wellbeing.

Advancing Environmental Education Practice also shows how, by constructing theories of change for their environmental education programs, environmental educators can target specific intermediate outcomes likely to lead to environmental behaviors and collective action, and plan activities to achieve those intermediate outcomes. In some cases, directly engaging program participants in the desired behavior or collective action can lead to changes in efficacy, sense of place, and other intermediate outcomes, which in turn foster future environmental actions. Finally, Advancing Environmental Education Practice shares twenty-four surveys that assess changes in environmental behaviors and intermediate outcomes, and provides guidelines for qualitative evaluations.

Thanks to generous funding from the Cornell Department of Natural Resources, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Marianne E. Krasny is professor of Natural Resources and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University. Her recent publications include Civic Ecology, Urban Environmental Education Review, Communicating Climate Change, and Grassroots to Global.

Introduction
Getting Started
1. Theory of Change
2. Evaluation
Environment and Behavior/Action Outcomes
3. Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change
4. Environmental Behaviors
5. Collective Environmental Action
Intermediate Outcomes
6. Knowledge and Thinking
7. Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes
8. Nature Connectedness
9. Sense of Place
10. Efficacy
11. Identity
12. Norms
13. Social Capital
14. Positive Youth Development
15. Health and Well-Being
Conclusion: Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Cornell Series in Environmental Education
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w halftones, 19 charts - 19 Charts - 2 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-5017-4707-X / 150174707X
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-4707-6 / 9781501747076
Zustand	Neuware