Children's Role in Meaning Making through Their Participation in an Environmental Education Program

Autor/inn/en	James, J. Joy; Bixler, Robert D.
Titel	Children's Role in Meaning Making through Their Participation in an Environmental Education Program
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Education, 39 (2008) 4, S.44-59 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-8964
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Participant Observation; Ethnography; Learning Experience; Student Role; Academically Gifted; Elementary School Students; Grade 4; Grade 5; Interviews; Sensory Experience; Interpersonal Relationship; Field Trips; Leisure Time; Play; Comprehension; Prior Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Ethnografie; Lernerfahrung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sinnerfahrung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Exkursion; Freizeit; Spiel; Verstehen; Verständnis; Vorkenntnisse
Abstract	The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and collected other data, they conducted analyses that identified domains describing the children's lived experience with a residential EE program (J. P. Spradley, 1979). Through domain analysis, a theme emerged: Children's nonformal environmental-learning experience is negotiated through the feeling of having choices and enhanced through sensory perception and personal relationships. Explicit recognition of the importance of informal social interactions, unstructured time and play, and perception of choice has potential to enhance the meaningfulness of residential EE programs. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10