Gaining Representations of Children’s and Adults’ Constructions of Sustainability Issues

APA 6th edition
In-text: (Barraza & Robottom, 2008)
Your Bibliography: Barraza, L. & Robottom, I. (2008). Gaining Representations of Children’s and Adults’ Constructions of Sustainability Issues . International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 3(4), 179-191.

Harvard
In-text: (Barraza and Robottom, 2008)
Your Bibliography: Barraza, L. and Robottom, I. (2008). Gaining Representations of Children’s and Adults’ Constructions of Sustainability Issues . International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 3(4), pp. 179-191.

Chicago 16th edition
In-text: (Barraza and Robottom 2008)
Your Bibliography: Barraza, Laura and Ian Robottom (2008). "Gaining Representations of Children’s and Adults’ Constructions of Sustainability Issues ". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 3 (4):179-191.

Abstract

In this decade of Education for Sustainable Development, it is timely to consider the methodological issues associated with researching this topic not only with adults but also with the young children who, as members of the next generation, will experience the success or otherwise of current environmental sustainability efforts. We argue that it is important when making methodological choices to recognize that both the sustainability issues themselves and the way individuals learn about these issues, are socially and culturally constructed. In this article we are interested in ways of gaining representations of individuals’ mental constructions of environmental sustainability issues. We recount experiences from two projects, one which used the approach of analyzing children's drawings to gain representations of how children in Mexico understand environmental issues and the other which employed adult participant-directed photography as the principal data collection method conducted mainly in the north of South Africa.

Keywords: children’s drawings, participant-directed photography, sustainability, mental construction.

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