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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-
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Känslor, värden och utbildning för en hållbar framtid : Att främja en kritisk känslokompetens i klimatundervisning
- 2019
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Ingår i: Acta Didactica Norge - tidsskrift for fagdidaktisk forsknings- og utviklingsarbeid i Norge. - : Acta Didactica Norge. - 1504-9922. ; 13:2, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Klimatförändringarna är ett av de mest allvarliga hållbarhetsproblem som mänskligheten står inför och är en viktig del av utbildning för hållbar utveckling. Genom dess existentiella, politiska och moraliska/etiska karaktär är klimatfrågan värdeladdad och även förknippad med en mängd känslor. Många människor oroar sig över klimatförändringarna och studier har visat att känslor ofta uppväcks i klassrummet då man undervisar om detta problem och andra hållbarhetsutmaningar. Syftet med denna artikel är att genom en genomgång av teorier och tidigare empiriska studier visa på att inte bara känslor utan också känslohanteringsstrategier är en viktig del av klimatundervisningen och att lärare spelar en viktig roll för om dessa strategier kommer att främja eller hindra läroprocesser inom detta område. Lärare har betydelse både genom att vara förebilder och genom hur de bemöter ungas känslor i klassrummet. I artikeln argumenteras för vikten av att inkludera främjandet av en ”kritisk känslokompetens” i dels lärarutbildningen och dels i utbildning för hållbar utveckling i skolan. Avslutningsvis ges några konkreta exempel på hur detta kan genomföras.
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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-, et al.
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Mosquitoes as a threat to humans and the community : The role of place identity, social norms, environmental concerns and ecocentric values in public risk perception
- 2017
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Ingår i: Local Environment. - : Routledge. - 1354-9839 .- 1469-6711. ; 22:2, s. 172-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a risk that climate change will cause an increase of mosquito populations in Europe. Due to their nuisance to humans, there are demands to combat mosquitoes, mainly through spraying. These interventions, however, are expensive and associated with uncertainties concerning effects on biodiversity. This poses a dilemma for policy-makers, which makes it important to gain knowledge on what people’s nuisance comprises. Thus, the aim of this study is to explore what factors are associated with this risk perception of mosquitoes. Theories about place identity, social norms, environmental concern and values were used to identify relevant factors. A questionnaire was distributed to 317 persons in a Swedish community where mosquitoes have increased radically. The items concerning risk perception fell out as a unidimensional scale in a principal component analysis and the internal consistency of the scale was good. Risk perception was positively related to place identity, descriptive social norms, and self-oriented environmental concern and negatively related to ecocentric values. The most important predictor was descriptive social norms, but the other factors and gender also contributed uniquely in explaining risk perception. Results are discussed in relation to the theory of social amplification of risks.
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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-, et al.
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Mosquitoes as a threat to humans and the community : The role of place identity, social norms, environmental concern and ecocentric values in public risk perception
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a risk that climate change in Northern Europe will cause an increase of insect populations that are a nuisance to humans. Studies and media reporting indicate that many people in Sweden already today suffer from a perceived increase of mosquitoes in their communities and that demands for large-scale, publicly-funded interventions to fight these mosquitoes are on the rise. In Sweden it is extremely rare to combat insect populations solely on the basis of human nuisance, partly due to a strong national ambition to protect biodiversity. When mosquitoes in some rare cases have been combated a biological insecticide has been used. There is, however, uncertainties related to the insecticide’s long term effects on biodiversity, and these kinds of interventions are also expensive. Hence, this poses a dilemma that policy makers have to handle. Since the main reason for fighting mosquitoes in the Northern part of the world, thus far, is people’s experiences of discomfort, it is important to gain more knowledge on what this discomfort stands for in order to effectively deal with this dilemma. Qualitative studies show that even where the mosquito prevalence is very high, risk perception can vary from one person to another. Thus, as is the case concerning risk perception in general the perceived threat from mosquitoes is probably influenced by many factors in addition to the actual frequency of these insects. Quantitative studies that explore which these factors are, have, however, not yet been performed.The aim of this study was to explore which factors are associated with risk perception concerning mosquitoes among people living in a Swedish community that recently has experienced an increase in mosquitoes. Theories and studies about place identity, social norms, worry and values and their role in influencing risk perception were used in order to identify relevant factors. A postal questionnaire was distributed to those living in the community and was answered by 317 persons (response rate 70 %). A scale containing items measuring perceived threat of the mosquitoes to oneself, other people, and the community was developed. The items fell out as a unidimensional scale in a principal component analysis and the internal consistency of the scale was good. In bivariate analyses mosquito risk perception was positively related to place identity, descriptive social norms, and self-oriented worry and negatively related to ecocentric values, while it had no significant relation to other-oriented worry. Thereafter, the relative importance of these factors in explaining risk perception was investigated in a multiple regression analysis with gender, education and age as control variables. The most important predictor was descriptive social norms, but place identity, and ecocentric values also contributed uniquely in explaining risk perception. Thus, the more people perceived others to have a high risk perception concerning mosquitoes, the stronger they identified with their community, and the less important they found ecocentric values to be, the higher risk perception they had concerning mosquitoes. These results are discussed in relation to the theory of social amplification of risks and practical implications are elaborated upon.
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- Ojala, Maria, et al.
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Mygg och människor vid sjön Björken : upplevelser av myggsituationen och attityder till bekämpningsåtgärder
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna rapport är baserad på en enkätstudie bland boende runt sjön Björken i Sunne kommun, Värmland. Syftet är att undersöka hur de boende upplever myggsituationen i området och hur de ser på den åtgärd – restaurering av strandmarkerna och hävd med betande nötkreatur – som genomförts i området för att minska myggförekomsten. Därutöver undersöks vilka attityder befolkningen har till den alternativa myggbekämpningsmetoden med det biologiska medlet Bti.Studien genomfördes i april-maj 2013. En enkät sändes ut till personer som var 18 år eller äldre och som bodde inom en radie av cirka 5 kilometer ifrån sjön Björken. Totalt sändes 453 enkäter ut och svarsfrekvensen var 70 %. Analyserna genomfördes på svaren från sammanlagt 313 personer. Av dessa var 60 % kvinnor och 40 % män och medelåldern var 56 år.
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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-, et al.
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Parental reasoning on choosing the mobile preschool : Enabling sustainable development or adjusting to a neoliberal society?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Early Childhood Education Journal. - : Springer. - 1082-3301 .- 1573-1707. ; 49:3, s. 539-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Due to the emergence of new forms of preschools and parents’ increased freedom of choice regarding early childhood education, more research on parental preschool preferences is needed. Although preschool offers a seedbed for the development of knowledge and competencies, this development matures through interaction with parents. Therefore, parental expectations and wishes are very likely to affect children’s learning. The mobile preschool is a new form of educational practice in Sweden where children travel by bus to different places for play and learning. This form of preschool can potentially lay a foundation for social and ecological sustainability because children learn to meet diverse people, explore different places, and spend time in nature. We interviewed 15 parents of children in a mobile preschool, most from a middle-class background. The main aim was to explore how these parents explain their choice of this type of preschool. Another aim was to identify desirable competencies that the parents think their children will achieve through the mobile preschool. Six themes related to preschool choice were identified; of these, “being out in nature” and “enlarging the children’s reality” were the most prominent. Two clusters of competencies were distinguished: care- and cooperation-oriented competencies, and freedom- and independence-oriented competencies. After analyzing these results in relation to two current educational discourses—education for sustainable development and entrepreneurship in a neoliberal society—we show how parents participate in reproducing these discourses. These findings add novel and important knowledge to the field of early childhood educational practices concerning parental choice and preferences.
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- Ojala, Maria, 1970-
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Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning
- 2022
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Routledge. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 28:8, s. 1157-1174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transformative learning is important for handling climate change. How to include this kind of learning in formal education is, however, still debated. This article takes a bottom-up approach by learning from young people who make climate-friendly food choices to a high degree. Interviews were performed with Swedish adolescents. By focusing on conflicts and coping the aim was to explore if there are elements of prefigurative practice (e.g., to actualize ideals about the future in the here and now) in the young people’s everyday engagement and to discuss how to utilize these to promote transformative learning. The young people experienced, for example, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and structural/practical conflicts. They coped in two overarching ways: strategies to support climate-friendly choices despite conflicts and strategies to deal with less good choices. It is argued that by critically discussing conflicts and different ways of dealing with them transformative learning can be promoted.
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