Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3348
Title: Science education for environmental awareness: approaches to integrating cognitive and affective domains
Contributor(s): Littledyke, Michael  (author)
Publication Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/13504620701843301
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3348
Abstract: Science education has an important part in developing understanding of concepts that underpin environmental issues, leading potentially to pro-environmental behaviour. However, science is commonly perceived negatively, leading to inappropriate and negative models of science that do not connect to people's experiences. The article argues that the cognitive and affective domains need to be explicitly integrated in a science education that informs environmental education, as a sense of relationship is essential for environmental care and responsibility leading to informed action. The features of such approaches to science education are discussed through analysis of the impact of modern and constructive postmodern science education models on environmental education, and possible strategies for making connections between cognitive and affective domains are proposed. The analysis incorporates the development of positive approaches to science and environmental issues through teacher modelling of biophilic behaviour, active learning through constructivist pedagogy, the politicisation of science education to address social and environmental issues, suitable experiences of natural environments and living organisms, and science curricula that emphasise conceptual integration to demonstrate complex environmental effects, including the environmental consequences of human behaviour.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Environmental Education Research, 14(1), p. 1-17
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1469-5871
1350-4622
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930402 School/Institution Community and Environment
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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