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Understanding Sustainability in the Context of Anchoring and Objectification: Insights from College Students (108786)
Session: On Demand
Room: Virtual Video Presentation
Presentation Type:Virtual Presentation
Transition to a sustainable society is not simply a matter of technical progress: transformative changes take place in people’s sense of their role in the natural world. Using anchoring and objectification as lenses, we analyzed student comments in a science education course. The dataset consisted of reflective writings and responses of 139 students from various fields. Using qualitative thematic analysis, this research explores how students consistently anchor sustainability to their lived experiences and enact this approach by translating abstract concepts into concrete behaviors and specific results. Seven major themes were developed as different ways to anchor and objectify the themes. For instance, concepts such as “Waste & Resource Management” link biodiversity, resource conservation, water/energy saving, and waste reduction, as evidenced by observable waste management systems. “Environmental Protection & Biodiversity” situated the preservation of the environment in the context of being a natural outtake of public behavior in shared space with people, invoking clear social norms surrounding what constitutes cleanliness in public space. Conservation of biological diversity was also seen as integral to the structure of education and socialization, as the era when the value was best articulated in “Education & Awareness.” Abstract theories of biodiversity become objectified through recycling, waste segregation, and the use of locally sourced products. Lastly, learning nature through sustainability education would be integral to students’ ability to construct their understanding of how knowledge is constructed, how values affect research priorities, and how scientific discoveries are told, debated, and re-emerge in public discourse.
Authors:
Özden Şengül, Bogazici University, Türkiye
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Ozden Sengul is an assistant professor on science education at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
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