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- O Ambiente não é qualquer coisa! - Diversidade de perspectivas das crianças acerca do ambientePublication . Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Gabriel, Rosalina; Neilson, Alison; Rodrigues, Luzia
- O Ambiente no futuro: Representações e preocupações de crianças terceirenses.Publication . Rodrigues, Luzia; Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Gabriel, Rosalina; Neilson, Alison
- Eating, jigging or watching? Ocean heritage and sustainable developmentPublication . Neilson, Alison; Gabriel, Rosalina; Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Pereira, EnésimaThis work emerges from the perspective that research has implications which can serve or hinder environmental and social justice within sustainable development. Who we listen to and how we listen are important to what narratives are highlighted through research. This study involves local residents as well as international tourists and people in the marine tourism industry and marine sciences in the Azores, Portugal in comparison with Newfoundland, Canada. The researchers dance between stepping out of the way in order to make room for voices and perspectives often ignored or silenced in educational and tourism stories of whales and the ocean, and stepping in to help uncover otherwise hidden forces of imperialism, and other oppressions. This study about perceptions of the ocean explores whose expression of heritage provides the driving force for commerce, business, leisure and politics. It also looks at the dynamic nature of heritage as it responds to changes in work, play and politics. Using various interview techniques including photo elicitation and focus groups, we gather rich narratives of visiting, living near and working in the sea. Multiple frames of lived experiences, ethics and politics support the narratives told. Some frames support the perceptions of diverse groups of people, while others privilege the stories of only a few. This study explores local power dynamics and global forces by asking about the ways in which people have learned about the ocean as well as how people decide what is relevant to their learning and what is important to sustain.
- Knowledge and commitment: challenging children's environmental perspectivesPublication . Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Gabriel, Rosalina; Neilson, Alison
- Making environmental meaningPublication . Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Neilson, Alison; Rodrigues, Luzia; Gabriel, RosalinaThis presentation is about creating rich and complex meanings for the concept of "environment" in order to increase the life supporting function of a biologically and culturally diverse environment. It focuses on educators and learners in research about the meaning of environment and ecological identity. This presentation discusses two educational studies which take ecological approaches to research. These approaches acknowledge complexity and ambiguity within the continuing processes of knowledge construction and use qualitative methods including free expression, photographs, drawings, semi-structured and narrative interviews, and meditative visualizations. One of the studies worked with a "naïve" group, children from the ultra-peripheral region of the Azores archipelago. The other involved "experts", environmental educators from around the world who had much formal studies about the environment in higher education. Researchers in these studies followed phenomenographic and narrative arts-based approaches and through reflexive partnerships with research participants, they highlight diverse perspectives of the environment not regularly seen in the literature, as well as uncover the ways in which researchers can inadvertently analysis away much of this diversity. Like research, teaching deals directly with processes of knowledge construction. The lessons learned through these two research studies are explored for how teaching can be done in a way that also supports diverse perspectives on environment.
- Phenomenographie, diversité conceptuelle et le sourire de le chat d'AlicePublication . Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Gabriel, Rosalina; Neilson, AlisonCette communication fait la présentation de une approche méthodologique, la phenomenographie, en tant que: – programme de recherche (ces origines théoriques, propos, dissémination actuel, etc.); – méthodologie de production et d'analyse des donnes; … en essayant de la situer parmi d'autres approches et techniques plus connus … en illustrent ces résultats avec un exemple concret … en discutant leurs forces et leurs limites.
- RCE Açores: DS em Ilhas.Publication . Gabriel, Rosalina; Arroz, Ana Margarida Moura; Neilson, Alison