scholarly journals Measuring Social Learning in Participatory Approaches to Natural Resource Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merel van der Wal ◽  
Joop De Kraker ◽  
Astrid Offermans ◽  
Carolien Kroeze ◽  
Paul A. Kirschner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Participatory Approaches

scholarly journals Citizen Science, Experts, and Expertise.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-385
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jordan ◽  
Amanda Sorensen ◽  
Steven Gray
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Groups

Interest in citizen science is growing among both scientists and community groups who are interested in creating natural resource management projects. Such projects have the potential to result in social learning, which can further reinforce resource stewardship. Data to study this learning process, however, remain scant. Using transcripts from four different natural resource management projects, we use discourse analysis to investigate the discursive practice between project scientists and community members in the development of models that were used to test ideas and subsequently modified with citizen collected data. We found that only a portion of the discussion focused on knowledge building and that only experts provided challenges to ideas being discussed. Subsequently to these challenges, however, a greater proportion of knowledge co-creation occurred.

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