scholarly journals Configurations and Meanings of Environmental Knowledge: Transitions from the Subjective Experience of Students towards the Intersubjective Experience of Us

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Condeza-Marmentini ◽  
Luis Flores-González
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
Intersubjective Experience

Environmental-related education has inherited the concepts of complexity and uncertainty from environmental science. However, these concepts still refer to the environment as an “object” that is separate from the knowing “subject,” and not as a phenomenon always inserted into a specific context. With the aim of contributing to generating contextualized environmental knowledge, this article explores the knowledge configuration itinerary regarding environmental issues that was developed by vulnerable students in public secondary schools located in peripheral municipalities of Santiago, Chile. The theoretical framework of complex thinking provides an epistemological opportunity to “read” and understand environmental knowledge within a web of co-determined spheres of social and community knowledge via the transition from “subjective understanding” to “intersubjective knowledge.” The knowledge configuration itinerary regarding the environment describes a transition from the sphere of the “self” towards an emplaced “us.” It was discussed that the incorporation of place in education is not only a pedagogical means, but also functions as an axis of meaning that highlights the multisemic nature of the environment in its different configurations. It was concluded that an educational project relevant to a global community must be founded upon those differences, as they provide opportunities for configuring knowledge as action and meaning.

scholarly journals Is youth pessimism good for the environment? Insights from PISA 2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Pivovarova ◽  
Jeanne M. Powers ◽  
Ketevan Chachkhiani
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Large Scale Assessment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

In this study, we explore the potential of data from large-scale assessments to provide insights into how students’ environmental knowledge could address the global challenge of environmental threats to humanity and the transition to sustainable development. We analyze data from the 2015 PISA survey to understand the extent to which 15-year old students in 54 countries are aware of these challenges. We find that students’ science activities, self-efficacy and environmental knowledge are positively associated with their awareness about environmental challenges. Students’ environmental awareness, in turn, is associated with environmental pessimism, or their outlook on the future of environmental issues. Students who are more engaged with environmental science are more aware about environmental issues and feel less optimistic that environmental issues will improve in the future. Such pessimistic attitudes about the future may be a precursor to pro-environmental behavior. Our results provide a cross-national picture of students’ engagement with environmental issues and insight into the potential of large-scale assessment data to inform environmental education policies promoted by individual countries and international organizations.

Limitations of the Self-Persuasion Effect Produced by Subjective Experience

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Leventhal ◽  
Donald H. Brown ◽  
George Klemp
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Self

scholarly journals ANALYZING GREEN PURCHASING BEHAVIOR OF TURKISH AND PERSIAN CONSUMERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Sara MOSAVICHECHAKLOU ◽  
Zehra BOZBAY
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Good Strategy ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Perceived Seriousness ◽  
Green Purchasing

Consumers being conscious about environmental issues tend to have favorable attitude to green purchasing. Offering eco-friendly products and services should be a good strategy for all companies wishing to provide competitive advantage in the marketplace. In the literature, a number of factors accepted as the antecedents of green purchasing behavior and this study examined eight factors of them. It is predicted that the factors which have an effect on the green purchasing behavior are different between the consumers having different nationality due to cultural differences. The purpose of this study is to determine the differences between both the antecedents of green purchasing behavior and green purchasing behavior of Turkish and Persian consumers. According to the results, differences are found between some antecedents of green purchasing behavior as environmental knowledge, social influence, environmental concern, perceived seriousness of environmental problems, concern for self-image, and green purchasing behavior of Turkish and Persian consumers.

Moving Signs

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-80
Author(s):  
Tony Perman
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
Semiotic Phenomenology ◽  
The Impact

The chapter explains the theoretical framework that guides the analysis in subsequent chapters and introduces a model for understanding emotional experience rooted in the semiotic phenomenology of C. S Peirce. This model allows for the explication of diverse modes of experience and explains the impact of habits and values in the interpretation of signs during ceremonial performance. As selves and interpersonal relationships are implicated in semiosis, experience becomes affective, linking perceptual, physiological, cultural, and public judgments in ongoing processes and projects of future-oriented flourishing. This four-step sequence---affect, emotion-appraisal, feeling, emotive is grounded in the self and its place in the world.

‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram

2019 ◽  
pp. 147035721985711
Author(s):  
Marloes Geboers
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Way

Studies into affective publics often involve textual communication. However, emotive communication is increasingly visual. This study zooms in on the representation of the suffering other in seven re-workings of the Alan Kurdi photographs that resonated significantly on Instagram. Chouliaraki’s concept of post-humanitarian solidarity in The Ironic Spectator (2013) is used as a theoretical framework to analyse the content of re-worked images and their post captions. Her concept outlines how distant sufferers tend to be rendered invisible due to the self-reflexive nature of contemporary solidarity. This self-reflexivity gets in the way of solidarity for others unlike us. The study found that, although the sufferer is visually present in almost all re-worked images, the suffering is ‘replaced’ by emotions or political views of the creators. Both Chouliaraki’s ‘distant other’ as well as Markham’s similar other are ways to visually (re)construct the tragedy of Alan Kurdi and the refugee crisis in general. This study adds to this an understanding of how Instagram users, while visually constructing a similar or distant other, also write themselves – often their personal feelings – into such images. Their public, other Instagram users, engages in self-reflexivity by liking such re-workings, aligning with the communicated emotions or political views conveyed. In this way, the platform ‘like feature’ intensifies the self-reflexive nature of contemporary solidarity.

Reflection

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
Janet Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Second Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Object Level

Contemporary psychology has explored the concept of the self in relation to the second order characteristics of metacognition. On the dominant theoretical framework, cognitive processes are taken to be split into two specifically interrelated levels called the object level and the metalevel, with the latter monitoring and controlling the former. The metalevel is thought to be self referential. For example, retrieving an answer to a question, or making a response to a cue, at the object level, does not involve reflection and is not self-referential. By contrast, judgments about whether the response was or was not true, or about whether one would be able to remember the response later entails second-order or metalevel processing, and it thought to be self-referential and to involve consciousness. This Reflection presents some of recent work on self-referential thought in humans. It also reviews studies of the neurological basis of these judgments, and investigations which have sought to determine whether any animals other than humans have this capacity.

From Wear to Self Healing in Nanostructured Biological and Technical Surfaces

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nosonovsky
Keyword(s):  
Crack Propagation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Solid Surfaces ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Equilibrium Thermodynamics ◽  
Biological Surfaces ◽  
Healing Agent ◽  
Non Equilibrium

Wear occurs at most solid surfaces that come in contact with other solid surfaces. While biological surfaces and tissues usually have the ability for self-healing, engineered self-healing materials only started to emerge recently. An example of a smart self-healing material is the materials with embedded microcapsules, which rupture during crack propagation and release a healing agent that repairs the crack. We discuss the conditions under which the self-healing occurs and provide a general theoretical framework and criteria for self-healing using the concept of multiscale organization of entropy and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

The Integrative Nature of Geography

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher F. Labosier
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

A firm definition of geography is often elusive and at times, the field is criticized for borrowing heavily from other disciplines. However, this article argues that the real strength of geography is its integrative nature. The purpose of this article is to discuss geography's integrative nature and how this strength can be integrated into the undergraduate environmental science curriculum. Two brief examples are provided from the author's own teaching and research experiences. Concept mapping in an introductory environmental science class allows students to visualize the complexity and integrative nature of environmental issues. In the atmospheric science classroom, students are introduced not only to the physical processes of weather hazards, but to the social dimensions as well. It is imperative that future scientists, advocates, and decision makers learn to critically integrate across disciplines to solve the world's most pressing environmental issues.

A statistical intra-genre analysis of cross-national environmental news translation

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-338
Author(s):  
Meng Ji
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Corpus Annotation ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Environmental News ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
Cross National

This study investigates the instrumental role of translated environmental news in informing public opinions on environmental issues among Chinese-speaking communities. Its contribution to methodology is exploring the automatic corpus annotation tools, that is, semantic analysis system. Its contribution to theory is identifying and distinguishing among three recurrent sub-news-types of translated environmental news published on BBC China, that is, governance; international relations and environmental science. Discourse features attributed to these subtypes of environmental news underscore BBC China’s reporting styles and strategies and largely explain its wide appeal and credibility among the target audiences.

scholarly journals Teletandem language learning in a technological context of education: interactions between Brazilian and German students

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-762
Author(s):  
Suelene Vaz da SILVA ◽  
Francisco José Quaresma de FIGUEIREDO
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Technological Context ◽  
The University ◽  
Communication Study

ABSTRACT This paper presents data from a computer-mediated communication study conducted between a group of Brazilian university students - from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Goiás, Campus Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil - who wanted to learn English, and a group of German university students - from the University of Worms, in Germany - who wanted to learn Portuguese. The cross-cultural bilingual communication was conducted in the second semester of 2010 and involved discussions on environmental issues. Adopting a qualitative perspective in the analysis, the data were derived from conversation sessions through a webconferencing software known as Openmeetings and through e-mails and some written activities developed by the students. All these were analyzed by means of sociocultural theory. Among the conclusions we reached, we observed that the participants used the software features to help them in their language learning process, discussed issues related to environmental science, as well as topics related to their personal and academic life. Regarding the languages used, the participants used English during the teletandem sessions as an anchoring language to assist their partners in learning English itself and Portuguese, as well as introduced the German language in the interaction sessions.

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