File(s) under permanent embargo
Community-based environmental monitoring goes to school: translations, detours and escapes
journal contribution
posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Julianne LynchJulianne Lynch, E Eilam, M Fluker, N AugarCommunity-school partnerships are an established practice within environmental science education, where a focus on how local phenomena articulate with broader environmental issues and concerns brings potential benefits for schools, community organisations and local communities. This paper contributes to our understanding of such educational practices by tracing of the diverse socio-material flows that constitute a community environmental monitoring project, where Australian school students became investigators of and advocates for particular sites in their neighbourhood. The theoretical resources of Actor-Network Theory are drawn upon to describe how the project—as conceptualised by its initiators—was enacted as both human and non-human actors sought to progress their own agendas thus translating the concept-project into multiple project realities. We conclude by identifying implications for sustaining educational innovations of this kind.
History
Journal
Environmental education researchVolume
23Issue
5Pagination
708 - 721Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
ISSN
1350-4622eISSN
1469-5871Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, Informa UKUsage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedKeywords
Licence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC