Awareness vs Intentionality: Exploring Education for Sustainable Development in a British Hindu Community
Awareness vs Intentionality: Exploring Education for Sustainable Development in a British Hindu Community
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意识与意向：探索英国印度教社区的可持续发展教育
DOI：
10.1002/sd.494
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
12.5
通讯作者：
N. Rita
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作者：
S. Chauhan;Sitaram Das;M. Haigh;N. Rita
这一社区教育倡议的目的是在联合王国的印度教少数民族社区培养可持续性意识和行为改变，并确定意识如何影响行为意图。本报告比较了在巴克提韦丹塔庄园寺组织的简玛塔米节上为会众设计的教育经验的有效性及其在两个外部活动中的有效性。该体验包括一系列展览，通过生态足迹调查问卷，咨询会议和承诺树将环境主题与精神生活方式的选择联系起来，受访者发誓要改变一种生活方式。尽管宗教背景和观众人口结构存在差异，但结果是相似的。与会者认识到一系列与生活方式有关的可持续性问题，但他们被说服承诺做出一些小的、容易实现的和严格具体的改变。他们避免涉及对其生活有重大影响的问题，并对被认为符合其社区大多数价值观的变化持最积极的态度。版权所有© 2010约翰威利父子有限公司和ERP环境。
This aims of this community education initiative is to foster sustainability consciousness and behavioural change in the UK's minority Hindu community and determine how awareness affects behavioural intentions. This report compares the effectiveness of an educational experience designed for the congregation at the Janmashtami Festival organized at Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple with its effectiveness at two external events. The experience involves a series of exhibits that link environmental themes with spiritual lifestyle choices through an Ecological Footprint questionnaire, a consultation session, and a pledge tree where respondents vow to make one lifestyle change. Despite the differences in religious context and audience demographic, results are similar. Participants recognized a wide range of lifestyle-related sustainability issues but were persuaded to pledge changes that were small, easily achieved and tightly specified. They avoided issues that involved major impacts on their lives and were most positive to changes considered to be aligned with the majority values of their community. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.