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Citizenship education for environmental sustainability in Lebanon: public school teachers’ understandings and approaches
Environmental Education Research ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-21 , DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2021.1879024
Maria Ghosn-Chelala 1 , Bassel Akar 1
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Abstract

Governments around the world have expressed various degrees of commitment to promoting approaches to environmental sustainability through their national curricular aims. Critical and dialogic pedagogies can support learning for environmental sustainability, but teachers in countries affected by armed conflict struggle to facilitate such pedagogies as they drive students to accurately recite information published in textbooks. In this study, we investigate education practices for environmental sustainability in Lebanon, a conflict-affected area. We conducted semi-structured interviews with teachers across 21 public schools. Findings showed that despite their commitments to caring for the natural environment, pedagogies and policies are, by and large, inadequate to foster a citizenship for environmental sustainability. While teachers reported that learners participate in recycling and replanting activities at school, their self-reports suggest that mainstream pedagogy requires learners to uncritically reproduce knowledge officiated in the national curriculum and carry out activities directed by teachers. Most teachers believed that governmental reform to end corruption was a prerequisite to teaching and learning for a citizenship for environmental sustainability. In public schools, engaging children in environmentally sustainable practices in Lebanon is hampered by a teaching workforce comprising less than a quarter of teachers with written qualifications, a highly centralized governance system and stagnant curricular reform.



中文翻译:

黎巴嫩环境可持续性公民教育:公立学校教师的理解和方法

摘要

世界各国政府已经表达了不同程度的承诺,以通过其国家课程目标来促进环境可持续性的方法。批判性和对话性教学法可以为环境可持续性学习提供支持,但是受武装冲突影响的国家的教师们在努力推动此类教学法以促使学生准确地朗读教科书中发布的信息方面努力。在本研究中,我们调查了受冲突影响地区黎巴嫩的环境可持续性教育实践。我们对21所公立学校的老师进行了半结构化访谈。调查结果表明,尽管教育和政策致力于维护自然环境,但总体上不足以培养公民的环境可持续性。尽管教师报告说学习者参加了学校的回收和补植活动,但他们的自我报告表明,主流教学法要求学习者不加批判地复制国家课程中宣传的知识,并开展教师指导的活动。大多数教师认为,为消除腐败而进行的政府改革是为实现环境可持续性的公民而进行教学的先决条件。在公立学校,黎巴嫩的教师队伍中,只有不到四分之一的教师具有书面资格,高度集中的治理体系和停滞的课程改革,阻碍了儿童在环境可持续发展方面的参与。他们的自我报告表明,主流教学法要求学习者不加批判地复制国家课程中宣传的知识,并开展教师指导的活动。大多数教师认为,为消除腐败而进行的政府改革是为实现环境可持续性的公民而进行教学的先决条件。在公立学校,黎巴嫩的教师队伍中,只有不到四分之一的教师具有书面资格,高度集中的治理体系和停滞的课程改革,阻碍了儿童在环境可持续发展方面的参与。他们的自我报告表明,主流教学法要求学习者不加批判地复制国家课程中宣传的知识,并开展教师指导的活动。大多数教师认为,为消除腐败而进行的政府改革是为实现环境可持续性的公民而进行教学的先决条件。在公立学校,黎巴嫩的教师队伍中,只有不到四分之一的教师具有书面资格,高度集中的治理体系和停滞的课程改革,阻碍了儿童在环境可持续发展方面的参与。大多数教师认为,为消除腐败而进行的政府改革是为实现环境可持续性的公民而进行教学的先决条件。在公立学校,黎巴嫩的教师队伍中,只有不到四分之一的教师具有书面资格,高度集中的治理体系和停滞的课程改革,阻碍了儿童在环境可持续发展方面的参与。大多数教师认为,为消除腐败而进行的政府改革是为实现环境可持续性的公民而进行教学的先决条件。在公立学校,黎巴嫩的教师队伍中,只有不到四分之一的教师具有书面资格,高度集中的治理体系和停滞的课程改革,阻碍了儿童在环境可持续发展方面的参与。

更新日期:2021-03-11
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