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10. Summer 2009: Values and Decision Making
Up one levelEnvironmental Educators often teach ecological concepts to promote environmental change. Current research identifies affective qualities such as “inner and communal voices of personal and collective experience, affect and emotion, and cultural values”, as stronger motivators for environmental support and behavioral change than cognitive information. (Weber, E, 2009; Leiserowitz, 2009, Silverman, H. 2009) Values are shaped by the cultural group(s) one associates with. If Environmental Educators are to have an impact on cultural groups that are different than their own the empathic skills to pose issues in a context that is most relevant and cogent for each cultural group will be imperative.
- Articles of Interest, Summer 2009 by Lisa — last modified 2010-02-08 15:11
- EElink.com identified climate change, water, and biodiversity as being the top three topics when searching for curricula on the website. The common modus operandi of environmental educators is to explain the ecological principles of an environmental issue with the idea that if people understood more that they would be as concerned as the educator to do more. Below is an article about climate change and people’s concern for making behavioral changes, The researcher, Anthony Leiserowitz, is a member of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions.
- Assessment, Summer 2009 by Lisa — last modified 2010-02-08 15:13
- Framing and Decision Making The Center for Research and Environmental Decisions has identifed several key findings in how people make environmental decisions.
- Vignette, Summer 2009: by Lisa — last modified 2009-08-31 08:58
- Should you try and convince someone to act in an environmentally responsible fashion?
- Mini-Lesson, Summer 2009 by Lisa — last modified 2010-02-08 15:15
- Cultural Continua When looking at values and culture you can quickly begin to generalize and worse stereotype if you begin your thoughts with People from this country or culture are ____. Instead it is better to look at continua of values, recognizing that each end of the continuum is just different, not better or worse. There might be a tendency for someone from a country or culture to gravitate to one side or another, but until you understand the other factors that pull an individual, you won’t truly get a sense of the person with whom you are interested in learning more about. There are many descriptions of cultural continuums. Psychologist Dr. Geert Hofstede, (1997) identified and described 5 Dimensions of Culture:
- Success Story, Summer 2009: CRED by Lisa — last modified 2009-08-31 09:11
- Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
