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Identity and Culture: theorising emergent environmentalism
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In this article, the authors argue for a wider theoretical underpinning to the research and specifically advocate the use of identity theories to explain personal and social phenomena, and also argue for use of theoretical frameworks that empower rather than capture cultural groups.Abstract:
Summary This article critically examines the methodology and findings of the emergent environmentalism research project as reported in Environmental Education Research (EER), 4(4). We challenge both the ontological stance implicit in the research as well as its explicit epistemology. We argue for a wider theoretical underpinning to the research and specifically advocate the use of identity theories to explain personal and social phenomena. We also argue for the use of theoretical frameworks that empower rather than ‘capture’ cultural groups.read more
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Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism 1
Nancy M. Wells,Kristi S. Lekies +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined connections between childhood involvement with the natural environment and adult environmentalism from a life-course perspective, finding that childhood participation with nature may set an individual on a trajectory toward environmentalism.
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Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism
Nancy Wells,Kristi S. Lekies +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined connections between childhood involvement with the natural environment and adult environmentalism from a life course perspective, and found that childhood participation with nature may set an individual on a trajectory toward environmentalism.
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Schooling and Local Environmental Knowledge: Do They Complement or Substitute Each Other?.
Victoria Reyes-García,Victoria Reyes-García,Eric P Kightley,Isabel Ruiz-Mallén,Núria Fuentes-Peláez,Katie Demps,Tomás Huanca,Maria Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez +7 more
TL;DR: This paper found that although schooling and academic knowledge bear a negative association with local knowledge, the magnitude is low, probably because schooling was partially contextualized, which might help avoid that the provision of universal education comes at the cost of humanity's cultural diversity.
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Significant Life Experiences Revisited Once Again: Response to Vol. 5(4) 'Five Critical Commentaries on Significant Life Experience Research in Environmental Education'
TL;DR: The authors provided a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of Environmental Education Research, Vol. 5(4), November 1999, and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting 2000 of the American Educational Research Association.
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Environmental identity formation in nonformal environmental education programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored experiences that remained salient in the memories of former participants in three nature-based programs in Colorado, five to forty years after childhood involvement, and analyzed these experiences through social practice theory, which has significant implications for the design and evaluation of environmental education programs.
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Identity, youth, and crisis
TL;DR: Erikson as mentioned in this paper describes a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the inner space of the communal culture, and discusses the connection between individual struggles and social order.
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Childhood and Society
TL;DR: Erikson's Childhood and Society as discussed by the authors deals with the relationship between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation.
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Significant Life Experiences Revisited: A Review of Research on Sources of Environmental Sensitivity.
TL;DR: A growing body of related research in the form of surveys, interviews, and questionnaires explore people's accounts of the sources of their environmental interest, concern, and action as mentioned in this paper.
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Sociological perspectives on identity formation: the culture-identity link and identity capital
TL;DR: The concept of identity capital as discussed by the authors is derived from this framework, depicting how individuals can negotiate life passages in an increasingly individualistic, complex, and chaotic world, by framing the culture-identity link with concepts representing three social-structural periods at three levels of analysis.
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Dimensions of a new identity
TL;DR: Erikson as discussed by the authors used selected themes from Jefferson's life to illustrate some principles of psychohistory and applied his main concepts to the problems of ongoing history, such as repression and suppression, moralistic vindication, and true liberation by insight.