Hansson, Petra
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Bengtsson, S. L., Hansson, P., Håkansson, M. & Östman, L. (2024). Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education. Environmental Education Research, 1-27 Open this publication in new window or tab >>Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. This study delves into the intricate dynamics of controversial issues in environmental education, challenging conventional notions. It explores the relationship between “controversy” and the field of environmental education, elucidating its multifaceted dimensions in and ambitions of teaching practice. In dialogue with previous research and based on our empirical study, we contend that controversy’s existence transcends the mere content of education and extends to its perceived fundamental core and normative underpinnings. We argue that controversy, including controversial sustainability issues (CSIs), is not confined to educational content alone but encompasses the purposes of education. We propose that controversy in educational encounters cannot be neatly categorized as a fixed, predictable social product and is not solely dependent on student interaction. This challenges earlier research positions that linked controversy to the presence of debate or dissensus in a subject area. Our study challenges the traditional understanding of controversy, highlighting its partial spontaneity and unpredictability in teaching. This contrasts previous positions that emphasized the epistemic dimension of controversy. Instead, our findings suggest that controversy plays an active role in the process of self-formation or subjectification in relation to any content. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Encountering Nature on the Move. A transactional analysis of Jenny Diski's Travelogue Daydreaming and Smoking around America with interruptions. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Reading the Outdoors: - an Analysis of the Swedish Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education Discourse Practice Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Örebro universitet. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Reading Walden/s: An Ecocritical Investigation of Students’ Environmental Meaning Making Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Text, Place and Mobility: Investigations of Outdoor Education, Ecocriticism and Environmental Meaning Making Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. The overall ambition of this thesis is to investigate the approaches taken to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism in a Swedish and in an international context, to investigate environmental meaning making and to conduce to the development of analytical methods for empirical investigations of environmental meaning making. Four objectives are formulated. The first objective of the thesis is to analyse constitutive discursive rules and traits regarding environmental and sustainability education and environmental meaning making in outdoor education in a Swedish context and in ecocriticism. This is achieved through discourse analyses of central textbooks in outdoor education and of research and textbooks in ecocriticism. The second objective is to investigate how different situated circumstances such as, text, place, mobility, social situations and previous experiences interplay in environmental meaning making. This is achievedthrough analyses ofclassroom communication, through analysis of nature writing and through an analysis of painted landscapes. The third objective is to compare and critically discuss the constitutive discursive rules and traits within the two investigated educational practices – out door education and ecocriticism – in the light of the results from the investigations of environmental meaning making carried out. The fourth objective is to develop analytical methods based on John Dewey and Louise Rosenblatt’s theories of transaction and meaning making for conducting empirical investigations of environmental meaning making in which different interplaying situational circumstances are taken into account. The results of the thesis show that taking a transactional starting point to investigate environmental meaning making adds further understanding of the situational circumstances influencing environmental meaning making in specific situations which sheds new light to the identified approaches to environmental and sustainability education in outdoor education and ecocriticism. These results suggest that a transactional approach to environmental and sustainability education can help to clarify taken for granted assumptions regarding the nature of situational circumstances such as text, place and mobility in environmental meaning making. University of Saskatchewan. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Örebro universitet. Open this publication in new window or tab >>The ”True” Story of Climate Change?: Aesthetic and Efferent Readings of Hardy Brix’ painted landscapes Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sigtuna Think Piece 7 Readings for Climate change: Ecocriticism andClimate Change Education Research Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. This think piece elaborates possible research connections between ecocriticism and climate change educational research, addressing the overarching question of what cultural responses to climate change can offer climate change education and climate change education research. It investigates literary critic Louise Rosenblatt’s transactional theory of reading in the context of ecocriticism and suggests a few possible climate change education research questions. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Förortens färger -: natur och kultur i Johannes Anyurus Det är bara gudarna som är nya Uppsala University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Curriculum Studies. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Education for Sustainable Development and Ecocriticism Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Open this publication in new window or tab >>Interdisciplinary Transgression – The Writing Process Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.Bengtsson, Stefan L.
Hansson, Petra
Håkansson, Michael
Östman, Leif
Abstract [en]
Keywords
Controversial issues, controversy, teaching, sustainability issues National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-528325 (URN)10.1080/13504622.2024.2347868 (DOI) Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-03662 Available from: 2024-05-20 Created: 2024-05-20 Last updated: 2024-05-20Hansson, Petra
Kronlid, David O.
Östman, Leif
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2014 Series
Studies in Environmental Humanities Keywords
nature writing, Dewey, mobility, transaction National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215133 (URN) Available from: 2014-01-10 Created: 2014-01-10 Last updated: 2014-02-10Hansson, Petra
Öhman, Johan
Östman, Leif
Keywords
Outdoor education, discourse analysis, meaning making, text book National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215138 (URN) Available from: 2014-01-10 Created: 2014-01-10 Last updated: 2017-12-06Hansson, Petra
af Geijerstam, Åsa
Östman, Leif
Keywords
Nature writing, ecocriticism, place, text movability, reading National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215135 (URN) Available from: 2014-01-10 Created: 2014-01-10 Last updated: 2022-01-28Hansson, Petra
Abstract [en]
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014. p. 100 Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Educational Sciences ; 2 Keywords
Pragmatism, text analysis, environmental meaning making, outdoor education, Ecocriticism National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215139 (URN)978-91-554-8841-3 (ISBN) Public defence
2014-02-21, Bertil Hammer, Blåsenhus, Uppsala, 13:00 (English) Opponent
McKenzie, Marcia
Supervisors
Östman, Leif
Öhman, Johan
Hansson, Petra
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin-Hamburg-Münster-London, Wien- Zürich: LIT-Publishing, 2010 Edition: 1 Keywords
climate change narratives, transactional theory, environmental education National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215132 (URN)9783643100931 (ISBN) Available from: 2014-01-10 Created: 2014-01-10 Last updated: 2014-02-10Hansson, Petra
Abstract [en]
Keywords
Ecocriticism, Climate Change Education, Transaction National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215137 (URN) Available from: 2014-01-10 Created: 2014-01-10 Last updated: 2014-02-10Bibliographically approvedHansson, Petra
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Cemus, 2007 Series
Cemus skriftserie, ISSN 1654-8744 ; 1 Keywords
ekokritik, natur i litteraturen, ekologi i litteraturen, kultur, Johannes Anyuru National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-109243 (URN)978-91-633-0200-8 (ISBN) Available from: 2009-10-13 Created: 2009-10-12 Last updated: 2018-01-12Bibliographically approvedHansson, Petra
Keywords
ecocriticism, education and sustainable development, literature, nature National Category
Languages and Literature Educational Sciences Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182198 (URN) Conference
Discordant harmonies, September 2006, Lincoln University, UK. Available from: 2012-10-04 Created: 2012-10-04 Last updated: 2012-11-06Bibliographically approvedHansson, Petra
Kronlid, David
Keywords
higher education, education and sustainable development National Category
Didactics Research subject
Curriculum Studies Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182197 (URN) Conference
Transgressing Boundaries in Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development Available from: 2012-10-04 Created: 2012-10-04
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