The development of environmental awareness through school science: Problems and possibilities

APA 6th edition
In-text: (Hadzigeorgiou & Skoumios, 2013)
Your Bibliography: Hadzigeorgiou, Y. & Skoumios, M. (2013). The development of environmental awareness through school science: Problems and possibilities. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 8(3), 405-426.

Harvard
In-text: (Hadzigeorgiou and Skoumios, 2013)
Your Bibliography: Hadzigeorgiou, Y. and Skoumios, M. (2013). The development of environmental awareness through school science: Problems and possibilities. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 8(3), pp. 405-426.

Chicago 16th edition
In-text: (Hadzigeorgiou and Skoumios 2013)
Your Bibliography: Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis and Michael Skoumios (2013). "The development of environmental awareness through school science: Problems and possibilities". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 8 (3):405-426.

Abstract

This paper focuses upon the problem of raising environmental awareness in the context of school science. By focusing, as it does, on the relationship between the self and the natural environment, the paper discusses the difficulties that exist, such as the students’ involvement with the natural world, as their object of study, the empirical treatment and the modeling of the natural world, and the purpose of learning science, as well as the possibilities for promoting the development of such relationship by keeping the natural world, as an object of study, in the foreground of the teachinglearning process. Such possibilities refer to the awareness of the personal and wider significance of science ideas and socio-scientific issues, the wonder evoked by science ideas and by natural forms and phenomena, the aesthetic appreciation of the natural world, and the ‘story of the universe’, as a story that addresses the interconnection of science and human life. The educational importance of ‘awareness’ is also discussed in the paper.

Keywords: environmental awareness, environmental education, school science, problems, possibilities, wonder, aesthetics, storytelling

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