"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes |
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Authors: | Pauline Couper Su Porter |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Arts, York St John University, York, UK;2. Faculty of Education &3. Social Sciences, University of St Mark &4. St John, Plymouth, UK |
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Abstract: | Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action has been questioned. Having struggled for some years to engage Outdoor Adventure Education students with physical geography science-based knowledge of the environment, we trialled a pedagogical shift to emphasize a relational, self-in-environment consciousness developed through autoethnography. We recount this experience to suggest that a similar approach may have potential to connect geography students’ cognitive knowledge of societies and environments with personal identities and capacities for action. |
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Keywords: | Environmental identity education for sustainable development graduate attributes outdoor learning rock climbing autoethnography |
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