دورية أكاديمية
Navigating Eco-Anxiety and Eco-Detachment: Educators' Strategies for Raising Environmental Awareness Given Students' Disconnection from Nature
العنوان: | Navigating Eco-Anxiety and Eco-Detachment: Educators' Strategies for Raising Environmental Awareness Given Students' Disconnection from Nature |
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اللغة: | English |
المؤلفون: | Rachael C. Edwards (ORCID |
المصدر: | Environmental Education Research. 2024 30(6):864-880. |
الإتاحة: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
Peer Reviewed: | Y |
Page Count: | 17 |
تاريخ النشر: | 2024 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
Education Level: | Elementary Secondary Education |
Descriptors: | Environmental Education, Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Consciousness Raising, Environment, Climate, Psychological Patterns, Conservation (Environment), Teacher Student Relationship, Coping, Outdoor Education, Elementary Secondary Education |
مصطلحات جغرافية: | Canada, United Kingdom |
DOI: | 10.1080/13504622.2023.2286929 |
تدمد: | 1350-4622 1469-5871 |
مستخلص: | Awareness of environmental problems such as climate change can motivate action, but educators debate whether to raise students' awareness given that it may provoke eco-anxiety. We have even less understanding of how these relationships are affected by young people's growing disconnection from nature. Through 28 semi-structured interviews in Canada and the United Kingdom, we explore how educators perceive students' nature connection and eco-anxiety and how they introduce discussion of environmental problems. Educators frequently observed experiential, cognitive, and emotional indicators of nature disconnection and eco-anxiety, although many (39%) reported rarely, if ever, witnessing such environmentally related distress. Educators prioritised improving nature connection over raising awareness of environmental problems. When they discuss these issues with students, they emphasise hope and encourage pro-environmental behaviours to avoid eliciting eco-anxiety for those not currently experiencing it, a strategy that is partially inconsistent with literature suggesting some eco-anxiety can nurture pro-environmental behaviour. Our findings provide new insights into the challenges that educators face in helping their students navigate current environmental trends. |
Abstractor: | As Provided |
Entry Date: | 2024 |
رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1428144 |
قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
تدمد: | 1350-4622 1469-5871 |
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DOI: | 10.1080/13504622.2023.2286929 |