Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education
Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education
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科学与环境教育的融合
作者：
A. Wals;M. Brody;J. Dillon;Robert B. Stevenson
公民科学和对可持续性的关注可以促进环境教育和科学教育之间急需的协同作用。气候变化、粮食短缺、营养不良和生物多样性丧失等紧迫问题在科学和社会中都是高度复杂和有争议的(1)。为了解决这些问题，环境教育者和科学教育者试图让人们参与到通常被称为可持续性挑战的问题中来。令人遗憾的是，主要侧重于传授知识和技能的科学教育（SE）和同样强调价值观和行为变化的环境教育（EE）越来越疏远。SE和EE之间的关系被描述为“远距离、竞争性、捕食者-猎物和寄主-寄生虫”(2)。我们研究了情感表达和社会环境融合的潜力，这可能会让人们参与解决基本的社会生态挑战。
Citizen science and concerns about sustainability can catalyze much-needed synergy between environmental education and science education. Urgent issues such as climate change, food scarcity, malnutrition, and loss of biodiversity are highly complex and contested in both science and society (1). To address them, environmental educators and science educators seek to engage people in what are commonly referred to as sustainability challenges. Regrettably, science education (SE), which focuses primarily on teaching knowledge and skills, and environmental education (EE), which also stresses the incorporation of values and changing behaviors, have become increasingly distant. The relationship between SE and EE has been characterized as “distant, competitive, predatorprey and host-parasite” (2). We examine the potential for a convergence of EE and SE that might engage people in addressing fundamental socioecological challenges.