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- Bylund, Linus, 1980, et al.
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‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics of ESD for 2030
- 2022
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 28:1, s. 40-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, the new global policy framework for implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) – ESD for 2030 – was launched officially. Drawing on Foucauldian theory, this paper explores biopolitical elements in ESD for 2030. The paper contributes to previous research on ESD policy by employing a biopolitical perspective, and by highlighting problematic aspects of the framework’s will to include and to adapt to different contexts. The analysis brings attention to the framework’s notions of life and to how different human populations are separated. Furthermore, the analysis of the framework demonstrates how notions of transformative pedagogy, community, and the individual, assume the functions of biopolitical techniques. The findings point to a biopolitical differentiation where rich and poor populations are assumed to need different educational interventions, adapted to their socio-economic contexts, in the global educational policy quest for sustainable development. Ultimately, we consider the potential of Foucauldian ethics as an affirmative alternative to the current mode of biopolitical differentiation in global ESD policy
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962
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Lived experiences of being-in-the-forest as experiential sharing with the more-than-human world
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; , s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers human embodied relationships with the morethan-human world, in the Swedish forest context, and through a phenomenological approach. The research focuses on lived experiences of being-in-the-forest, starting in the author’s experiences, using walk-andtalk conversations as inquiry process with study participants. Analysis reveals that (a) childhood experiences seem to play a crucial role in adult experiences of forests; (b) place-identity and sense of belonging are significant elements in how the participants define themselves; (c) being-in-the-forest is connected to an active, exploring and moving body and that the connection with the more-than-human world of the case study forest is deeply anchored as part of the human body. This relationship appears to be shaped through a process of constructing and reconstructing memories, practice and selfhood, and can, it seems, last a lifetime. In the long term, such relationships could have a positive impact on human connections to the more-than-human world.
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- Knutsson, Beniamin, 1974
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Managing the GAP between rich and poor? Biopolitics and (ab)normalized inequality in South African education for sustainable development
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 26:5, s. 650-665
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The extreme inequality in South African education is well-documented by researchers. There is also a rich literature concerned with education for sustainable development (ESD) in the country. The relationship between these two phenomena has, however, been sparsely investigated. Drawing on biopolitical theory and fieldwork conducted in South Africa, this paper queries how ESD programmes handle the lifestyle gap that separates rich and poor populations. The article demonstrates how ESD, through ostensible sensitivity to local ‘realities’, is adjusted to comply with different socio-economic living conditions, and how different roles are assigned to rich and poor in the quest for sustainable development. This differentiation, it is argued, can be understood biopolitically. The paper further argues that the differentiation between populations in rich and poor settings implies a depoliticized notion of local ‘realities’ as something isolated and given, rather than relational and produced. While the overall findings suggest that ESD unfolds through a regime of practice wherein inequality has become effectively normalized, the paper also points to rare disruptive moments where the normal is rendered abnormal. Ultimately it is argued that the South African case is a useful entry-point for discussing generic problems of globally implementing ESD in an enormously unequal world.
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- Harring, Niklas, 1979, et al.
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Why do people accept environmental policies? The prospects of higher education and changes in norms, beliefs and policy preferences
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 24:6, s. 791-806
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pressing problems of environmental degradation are typically argued to require coordination, primarily through state intervention. Social scientists are struggling to understand how attitudes toward such state interventions are formed, and several drivers have been suggested, including education. People with university degrees are assumed to have certain values as well as the analytical skills to understand complex issues such as climate change. By using a unique panel data-set with students in different university programs (economics, law and political science), this study provides a better understanding of whether and how education affects environmental policy acceptance. One important finding is that university studies generate variation in support and scepticism toward different types of policy measures. For example, economics students tend to develop more positive attitudes toward market-based policy measures. This indicates a potential for education to increase the societal support often hindering the implementation of such policy tools.
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- Ojala, Maria
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Hope and climate change : The importance of hope for pro-environmental engagement among young people
- 2012
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 18:5, s. 625-642
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although many young people think climate change is an important societal issue, studies indicate that pessimism is quite common. Finding ways to instill hope could therefore be seen as vital. However, is hope positively related to engagement or is it only a sign of illusory optimism? The aim of the study was to explore if hope concerning climate change has a significant relation to pro-environmental behavior as well as an impact on behavior when controlling for already well-known predictors such as values, social influence, knowledge, and gender. Two questionnaire studies were performed, one with a group of Swedish teenagers (n = 723) and one with a group of Swedish young adults (n = 381). ‘Constructive’ hope had a unique positive influence on pro-environmental behavior. Hope based on denial, however, was negatively correlated with pro-environmental behavior in the two samples and was a significant negative predictor in the teenage group. The conclusion is that hope is not only a pleasant feeling but could also work as a motivational force, if one controls for denial. Implications for education concerning sustainable development are discussed.
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- Bengtsson, Stefan L., 1978-
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Dark pedagogy : Speculative realism and environmental and sustainability education
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 26:9/10, s. 1453--1465
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article draws on the emerging speculative realist philosophical movement in order to develop new understandings of the issues and content of education that needs framing and reframing within environmental and sustainability education (ESE) research. We argue for the potential of using speculative realist concepts such as correlationism, hyperobjects, the strange stranger, undermining, overmining and duomining in order to develop a dark pedagogy that could draw on insights from speculative realism and object-oriented ontology in particular in order to develop further key concepts and discussions within ESE. Based on inspiration from speculative realism, our conception of a dark pedagogy could strive to: develop an understanding of the hyperobjects and the strangeness of objects of education at the center of ESE. Our conception of dark pedagogy insists on the inherent withdrawnness of the objects at play in ESE, and envisions to develop a sensibility towards eco-, geo-, infra- and chrono-factors in ESE and make explicit the potential educational implications of speculative realisms.
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- Hedefalk, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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Didactical dilemmas when planning teaching for sustainable development in preschool
- 2021
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Routledge. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 27:1, s. 37-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we analyze preschool teacher students' conversations on planning teaching for sustainable development; a project. Previous research shows that teaching situations often involve strategies of achieving behavioral change; i.e. teaching "the right way" to handle garbage, and less activities allowing children to value and critically discuss sustainability issues. We take a pragmatic theoretical perspective to identify discourses on didactic choices created by teacher students during seminars. Texts in the form of transcripts of audio recordings from three seminars were analyzed, with the purpose of determining what didactical dilemmas were created in the students' discussions and in their reasoning about how to solve them. The results show a didactic dilemma common among the five groups of students. A tension between content as given, based on the curriculum, and content as created, based on children's experiences and ideas. Furthermore, the teacher students verbalized a third way of handling content, involving oscillating between given and created content. This oscillation allowed them to avoid normative teaching and instead achieve pluralistic teaching. Pluralistic teaching does not exclude predefined content such as facts, but it also includes other knowledge sources as well as allowing children to form their own opinions about sustainability issues.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, et al.
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Enhancing children’s literacy and ecological literacy through critical place-based pedagogy
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 26:12, s. 1729-1745
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article advocates a holistic approach to education concerning literacy and ecological literacy development and builds on data from two different case studies in compulsory school classes in Sweden. The study is built on action-based research and the data material was analysed through directed qualitative content analysis. We argue that place is an aspect of pedagogical settings that needs more consideration in teaching practices, and that various features of education, such as language, meaning-making, literacy development of various kinds, and identity building, are intertwined with place. The results of this study show that interactions between students and direct encountering with two outdoor places are connected with student agency, emancipation and empowerment. The learning opportunities enabled in these two pedagogical settings were, at least in part, due to the teachers? non-prescriptive directions and an ?outside-the-box? way of thinking. Such approaches supported and empowered students and allowed them develop critical thinking on their own terms.
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- Torbjörnsson, Tomas, 1956-, et al.
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Potential conflicts between ownership rights and environmental protection : Swedish undergraduate students' views
- 2019
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - Oxon, UK : Taylor & Francis. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 25:12, s. 1790-1803
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the perspectives of Swedish undergraduate students regarding potential conflicts between ownership rights and environmental protection. Conceptions of ?ownership? are relevant in relation to the environment and environmental protection as they can highlight a more transboundary relationship between the individual/society and nature. Students studying economics, law and political science were chosen because of their potential future transformative roles as decision makers and policy makers. Content analysis was employed to examine the written responses of 747 students from seven different universities to the open-ended survey question: Can ownership rights and environmental protection come into conflict? Students? responses were measured twice: at the very beginning of the first semester and then again at the end of the semester. The results show that students expressed a dominant view of ownership in terms of individual ownership, and associations to collective ownership were largely absent. In regards to the potential conflict between ownership rights and environmental protection, most students perceived such a conflict, and it was more common for the environment to be conceptualised as the losing party rather than the landowner. More research is needed regarding how teaching and instruction can deal with the potential conflicts between ownership (private/corporate/governmental) and environmental protection.
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- Andersson, Pernilla, 1969-, et al.
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Logics of business education for sustainability
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Education Research. - : Routledge. - 1350-4622 .- 1469-5871. ; 22:4, s. 463-479
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores various kinds of logics of‘business education for sustainability’and how these ‘logics’ position the subject business person, based on eight teachers’ reasoning of their own practices. The concept of logics developed within a discourse theoretical framework is employed to analyse the teachers’ reasoning. The analysis takes its starting point in different approaches to how a business ought to or could take responsibility for sustainable development. Different approaches to business ethical responsibilities, in combination with assumptions about how educational content is legitimised and presupposed purposes of education, are used to construct logics of business education for sustainability. In the paper, the results of this analysis are presented as: the logic of profit-, social- or radical-oriented business education.Our results also showhow the different logics position the subject business person differently, as one who adapts to,adds or creates ethical values. The results are first discussed in terms of how environmental and social challenges could be dealt with in the future and secondly, considering the risk of de-subjectification with regard to profit-oriented business education, the implications this may have for the educational quality itself.
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