Eliciting Children's/Young People's (Group) Engagement with Scenarios as Participatory Research Practice for Exploring and Extending Responses to Climate Change

Autor/in	Romm, Norma R. A.
Titel	Eliciting Children's/Young People's (Group) Engagement with Scenarios as Participatory Research Practice for Exploring and Extending Responses to Climate Change
Quelle	In: Participatory Educational Research, 7 (2020) 1, (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Romm, Norma R. A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2148-6123
Schlagwörter	Participatory Research; Climate; Early Adolescents; Vignettes; Consciousness Raising; Cooperative Learning; Sustainable Development; Disadvantaged Youth; Foreign Countries; Geography Instruction; Grade 9; Group Discussion; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungstätigkeit; Klima; Bewusstseinsbildung; Kooperatives Lernen; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Ausland; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Gruppendiskussion; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In this article I provide an account of my use (in a particular context) of a 'post qualitative inquiry' approach, with my recognition that ways of approaching issues to be explored with participants, and the method of exploration, carry social and ecological consequences. The research was initiated in a school in South Africa with a sample of ten (Black) Grade 9 children (aged 14-15). Groups of two to three children engaged with a number of scenarios supplied by me ('business as usual', 'small changes', and 'sustainable future') concerning possible responses to climate change. In each group the children worked together towards jointly creating options for unsettling the 'business as usual' scenario while exploring the other scenarios as alternatives. The article concentrates on the justification for using scenarios as a basis for inviting the children to discuss together their responses to climate change, with a view to the research inputting into their visioning and their understandings of possibilities for agency (individual and collective). It also concentrates on my intent to strengthen the notion of collaborative visioning, which is in keeping with Indigenous understandings of relational knowing. The research was intended, inter alia, to contribute to the children's appreciation of this way of learning. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Participatory Education Research. Amasya University, Technology Faculty, Yagmurkoy Orad, Amasya 05100, Turkey. Web site: https://www.perjournal.com/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01