The IRMA Community
Newsletters
Research IRM
Click a keyword to search titles using our InfoSci-OnDemand powered search:
|
Examining the Alignment of Student Explanations With the System Model in Climate Education Using Systems Thinking
Author(s): Meltem Ceylan Alibeyoglu (Darussafaka Educational Institutions, Turkey), Zeynep Isilay Baskahya (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary), Gaye Defne Ceyhan (Bogazici University, Turkey), Sena Yildiz Degirmenci (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Nihal Gunes Demir (Hisar Foundation Educational Institutions, Turkey), Saadet Etli (Enka Middle School, Turkey), Gorkem Girgin (Darussafaka Educational Institutions, Turkey), Emre Goktepe (Systems Thinking Association, Turkey), Busra Karga (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Ece Unsal (Darussafaka Educational Institutions, Turkey)and Ulkem Yararbas (Ege University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 34
EISBN13: 9798369391440
Purchase
View Sample PDF
Abstract
The climate crisis poses a major threat to sustainability, highlighting the need for climate education that develops students' systems thinking skills regarding dynamic environmental issues. For this reason, this project, funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was developed by a research university, a non-governmental organization, and a middle school partnership. As part of the project, this study investigated a ten-week after-school climate education program for 8th-grade students that aimed to improve their understanding of the climate system through simulation and policymaking. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed to assess the program's model alignment with students' explanations. The most frequently mentioned category was the economy, followed by the carbon cycle; population and the greenhouse effect were the least common. The study offers valuable insights into using a systems approach in climate education to comprehend climate complexity and dynamics by considering the importance of economy and population in understanding human-caused climate change.
Related Content
|
Ken Stevens.
© 2011.
11 pages.
|
|
Andrea Piselli.
© 2010.
14 pages.
|
|
Eugene de Silva, Eugenie de Silva, Jeffrey Horner, Pamela Knox.
© 2015.
22 pages.
|
|
Peter Jakubowicz.
© 2010.
21 pages.
|
|
Spencer A. Benson, Ann C. Smith, David B. Eubanks.
© 2013.
16 pages.
|
|
|