WWOOF Ecopedagogy: Linking "Doing" to "Learning"

Autor/in	Nakagawa, Yoshifumi
Titel	WWOOF Ecopedagogy: Linking "Doing" to "Learning"
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 33 (2017) 1, S.1-17 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Ethnography; Tourism; Environmental Education; Curriculum Design; Agronomy; Agricultural Occupations; Young Adults; Heuristics; Experiential Learning; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ethnografie; Tourismus; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Lehrplangestaltung; Agarwissenschaft; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Heuristik; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Australien
Abstract	WWOOF (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) is an increasingly popular form of ecotourism in Australia. An ethnographic study of 10 young adult international tourists was conducted at five rural Victorian WWOOF sites. The objective was to examine the participants' nature experience. As part of the ethnographic study, this article selectively reports on the ecopedagogy at the WWOOF sites, focusing on the potential linking of spatio-sensory "doing" in the environment and conceptual "learning" about (including from, for, and with) the environment. The WWOOF environment is designed physically, materially, and naturally. These dimensions can be interpreted in overlapping spatial levels. Each spatial level partially correlates with the dominant bodily senses. By analysing the participants' reflexive accounts of their WWOOF nature experience, this article suggests that their spatio-sensory "doing" contributed to their environmental "learning", which is categorised into three heuristic types. These are called symbolic, transpositional, and transformative. This study empirically and conceptually adds to the literature on experiential environmental learning with a possible ecopedagogical model of incorporating spatialised bodily senses in curriculum design. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01