Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education     

John Fraser  Marianne E. Krasny 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(5):777-800

Since the 1980s, scholars have suggested that environmental education (EE) has a ‘definitional problem’ represented by a multiplicity of perspectives that have critically impacted its discourse, practices, and outcomes. This study sought to investigate how North American EE practitioners from backgrounds ranging from formal and non-formal institutions think about their work. We focused on folk narratives and emerging urban environmental concerns of community education rather than reliance on academic opinion alone. Using Q methodology, the study identified five distinct perspectives that appear to represent different ways of prioritizing EE outcomes. All five perspectives were concerned with promoting sustainable living and improved human well-being, but the nuances suggest that an individual who adheres strongly to one may feel someone holding a contrasting perspective is working at cross-purposes. The authors suggest that understanding these perspectives can help reduce misunderstanding within the EE field.  相似文献   

论阿英《小说闲谈》系列的文献学价值     

林莹 《嘉应学院学报》2014,(7):61-66

阿英所著的《小说闲谈》、《小说二谈》、《小说三谈》和《小说四谈》,统称《小说闲谈》系列,主要收录了关于通俗文学研究的学术札记,保留了古代小说、弹词、戏曲等方面的珍贵资料,体现出阿英的治学思路、方法与特色。其文献学价值,可从收集、利用、整理资料等多个角度来进行论述。  相似文献   

Daycare Staff Emotions and Coping Related to Children of Divorce: A Q Methodological Study     

Klara Øverland  Ingunn Størksen  Edvin Bru  Arlene Arstad Thorsen 《Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research》2014,58(3):361-384

This Q methodological study explores emotional experiences and coping of daycare staff when working with children of divorce and their families. Two main coping strategies among daycare staff were identified: 1) Confident copers, and 2) Non-confident copers. Interviews exemplify the two main experiences. Both groups may struggle with coping in this work. Still, Non-confident copers seem to experience more problems than do Confident copers. Both Confident and Non-confident copers find it difficult to work with parents who argue in front of the children. Accordingly, we suggest tailored education and counseling in this field to increase knowledge and coping among staff, to help them in their work with children of divorce.  相似文献   

论《1Q84》中的“回状嵌套法”     

洪小涵 《金华职业技术学院学报》2014,(4):82-84

"回状嵌套法"是用来指一种在文学作品中出现"戏中戏"、"剧中剧"、小说套小说的创作手法。在村上春树的小说《1Q84》中,主人公天吾改写的《空气蛹》、天吾在火车上读到的《猫城》和天吾自己创作的长篇小说这三本小说,与《1Q84》的原故事层形成了"回"状的嵌套结构,使小说呈现出三维的、立体的"回"状故事空间。  相似文献   

International research networks: Determinants of country embeddedness     

Holger Graf  Martin Kalthaus 《Research Policy》2018,47(7):1198-1214

Research activities are increasingly global so that embeddedness in international knowledge networks is decisive for inventive and innovative performance. We analyze determinants of countries’ embeddedness in the global photovoltaics knowledge network for the period 1980–2015 and argue that positions in this network are determined by the structure and functionality of national research systems and by instruments within the policy-mix for renewable energies. We show that cohesion and connectedness of the national research system positively affect international embeddedness, whereas centralized systems are detrimental to embeddedness. This indicates that a diffusion oriented research system allows better access to international knowledge flows. Policy instruments, especially demand side instruments, show a positive effect on embeddedness.  相似文献   

Transition towards a green economy in Europe: Innovation and knowledge integration in the renewable energy sector     

C. Conti  M.L. Mancusi  F. Sanna-Randaccio  R. Sestini  E. Verdolini 《Research Policy》2018,47(10):1996-2009

This paper investigates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in the field of renewable energy sources (RES) by estimating the intensity and direction of knowledge spillovers over the years 1985–2010. We modify the original double exponential knowledge diffusion model proposed by Caballero and Jaffe (1993) to provide information on the degree of integration of EU countries’ RES knowledge bases and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES inventors have increasingly built “on the shoulders of the other EU giants”, intensifying their citations to other member countries and decreasing those to domestic inventors. Furthermore, the EU strengthened its position as source of RES knowledge for the US. Finally, we show that this pattern is peculiar to RES, with other traditional (i.e. fossil-based) energy technologies and other radically new technologies behaving differently. Our results provide suggestive, but convincing evidence that the reduction in fragmentation emerged as a result of the EU support for RES taking mainly the form of demand-pull policies.  相似文献