期刊名称：Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education
印刷版ISSN：1691-6301
电子版ISSN：2255-7547
出版年度：2016
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：68-81
DOI：10.1515/dcse-2016-0005
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：Is future teachers’ contact with the physical environment significant enough for them to choose to educate their students about sustainability? These digital natives stand out from previous generations by their way of living. The research based on grounded theory was aimed at understanding future teachers’ relationships with physical and technological environments. The analysis of interviews, with Moncton and Montreal teacher education students, reveals that future teachers maintain a sporadic relation to the natural environment. They are still conscious that nature provides them calmness, rejuvenation and beauty. The Internet offers them distraction, social affiliation, personalized information, and facilitates their tasks and contact with the World. Future teachers are critical and cautious in their use of ICT but are however not much involved in the environmental cause. The research emphasizes the need to work on future teachers’ relationship to the physical environment with outdoor activities to get to know, appreciate, analyze and improve the natural and urban environments.
关键词：teacher education ; relationships with ICT ; relationships with environment ; education for sustainability
