Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part II. Examining pedagogy in school field trip programs for early adolescent youth across political contexts

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dc.contributor.authorThorpe, Emily G.en
dc.contributor.authorStern, Marc J.en
dc.contributor.authorPowell, Robert B.en
dc.contributor.authorHemby, Tyler L.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-22T12:44:54Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-22T12:44:54Zen
dc.date.issued2023-12-16en
dc.description.abstractPolitical polarization in the United States has made many environmental issues strongly partisan, with Democrats largely receptive to environmental messaging and Republicans commonly pitted against it. This phenomenon may have meaningful implications for how environmental education is conducted for people from different sociopolitical contexts. We explored whether certain pedagogical approaches to single-day environmental education field trip programs were linked to better or worse outcomes for early adolescent youth (ages 10–14) from different sociopolitical contexts: majority Republican, majority Democrat, or mixed (roughly even). All observed effect sizes were small with one exception. Play-based pedagogies tended to yield less positive outcomes for students from Republican majority contexts than others, with a medium effect size. The findings suggest that some traditional approaches to play, such as role-playing as animals or pretending to be water droplets, may feel incongruent with the social identities of students from largely Republican communities.en
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dc.format.extent22 page(s)en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2295781en
dc.identifier.eissn1469-5871en
dc.identifier.issn1350-4622en
dc.identifier.orcidStern, Marc [0000-0002-0294-8941]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/117420en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectDemocratsen
dc.subjectenvironmental educationen
dc.subjectenvironmental literacyen
dc.subjectgeographic sortingen
dc.subjectpoliticsen
dc.subjectRepublicansen
dc.titleDoes environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part II. Examining pedagogy in school field trip programs for early adolescent youth across political contextsen
dc.title.serialEnvironmental Education Researchen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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