Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior
Encouraging environmental action and greater proenvironmental behavior has been a main focus of environmental education since its inception. However, many scholars feel that environmental education has largely been unsuccessful at achieving these goals. To invigorate the potential of environmental e...
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ndltd-LSU-oai-etd.lsu.edu-etd-07102013-0002512013-07-16T03:17:30Z Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior Ceaser, Donovon Keith Sociology Encouraging environmental action and greater proenvironmental behavior has been a main focus of environmental education since its inception. However, many scholars feel that environmental education has largely been unsuccessful at achieving these goals. To invigorate the potential of environmental education, researchers have become more socially critical and started questioning old stances such as addressing the role of action within environmental education and embraced new techniques like examining the role of personal experiences in shaping people sense of identification with the environment. This dissertation is four separate studies that examine how a socially critical environmental education can help produces students who are prepared to tackle social and environmental problems. Using data collected from six months of participant observation at an environmental justice youth program in New Orleans, LA and a review of the environmental justice literature, I examine the role of critical environmental education in shaping youth proenvironmental behavior, the power dynamics between youth and adults in such a program, and the role of significant life experiences in shaping youth environmentalism. I also use the data to generate theory on the significance of negative significant life experiences in shaping ones social/environmental identity- a theory that can be used as a pedagogical tool for understanding how to generate future activists who will be able to genuinely tackle the worlds social/environmental problems. Walsh, Maud Dumais, Susan Blanchard, Troy Miller, Andrea Becker, Sarah LSU 2013-07-15 text application/pdf http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07102013-000251/ http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07102013-000251/ en unrestricted I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached herein a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to LSU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below and in appropriate University policies, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
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Encouraging environmental action and greater proenvironmental behavior has been a main focus of environmental education since its inception. However, many scholars feel that environmental education has largely been unsuccessful at achieving these goals. To invigorate the potential of environmental education, researchers have become more socially critical and started questioning old stances such as addressing the role of action within environmental education and embraced new techniques like examining the role of personal experiences in shaping people sense of identification with the environment. This dissertation is four separate studies that examine how a socially critical environmental education can help produces students who are prepared to tackle social and environmental problems. Using data collected from six months of participant observation at an environmental justice youth program in New Orleans, LA and a review of the environmental justice literature, I examine the role of critical environmental education in shaping youth proenvironmental behavior, the power dynamics between youth and adults in such a program, and the role of significant life experiences in shaping youth environmentalism. I also use the data to generate theory on the significance of negative significant life experiences in shaping ones social/environmental identity- a theory that can be used as a pedagogical tool for understanding how to generate future activists who will be able to genuinely tackle the worlds social/environmental problems. |
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Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior |
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Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior |
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Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior |
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Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior |
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Educating for Environmental Justice: Social/Environmental Marginality and the Significance of Experiences for Environmental Activism and Proenviromental Behavior |
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educating for environmental justice: social/environmental marginality and the significance of experiences for environmental activism and proenviromental behavior |
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