Mapping Sustainability Initiatives across a Region: An Innovative Survey Approach

Autor/inn/en	Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica
Titel	Mapping Sustainability Initiatives across a Region: An Innovative Survey Approach
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 28 (2012) 2, S.65-77 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1017/aee.2013.1
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Educational Innovation; Environmental Education; Environmental Research; Educational Research; Research Methodology; Place Based Education; Regional Characteristics; Maps; Surveys; Questionnaires; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Pilot Projects; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Environmental study; Umweltforschung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Regionaler Faktor; Map; Karte; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fragebogen; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Australien
Abstract	The project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of research about place and sustainability education for the Anthropocene, the new geological age of human-induced planetary changes (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen, & Crutzen, 2010). The study investigated the location, nature and type of sustainability initiatives in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The purpose of the study was to trial the development of a place-based survey questionnaire to map initiatives in education for sustainability across a region in order to understand how they emerge in local places. The data from the survey was interpreted using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. This article focuses on the qualitative thematic analysis across all survey responses and assesses the findings in order to determine the usefulness of the approach. The study found that a regional place-based approach enables a different conceptualisation of the possibilities of a cross-sectoral interconnected system of sustainability education. The nonformal and informal sectors are important sites of innovation and have great potential to enrich the pedagogies of education for sustainability in the formal sector. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10