期刊名称:International Journal of Development and Sustainability
印刷版ISSN:2186-8662
出版年度:2018
卷号:7
期号:3
页码:863-877
出版社:International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
摘要:The aim of this article is to describe the main results of research on social representations of climate change in a sample of 105 students from the National Pedagogical University, Mexico. The research corresponds to an exploratory study in which the procedural approach of social representation; the methodological perspective, privileged the use of qualitative techniques, through many instruments: associative letters, based on the free association of words from an inductor term, the subjects express the words freely. A questionnaire with open and closed questions and qualitative interviews, based on the presentation of images related to climate change. The results show that college students have social representations of climate change with hegemonic content, emancipated and controversial. Hegemonic relate mainly to the effects and with the educational alternatives; content emancipated incorporate issues related causes; and controversial contain with emotional issues related to this phenomenon.
关键词:Environmental Education; Content; Social Representation; Students