ERIC Number: EJ1024653
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 20
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Facilitating Youth to Take Sustainability Actions: The Potential of Peer Education
de Vreede, Catherine; Warner, Alan; Pitter, Robert
Journal of Environmental Education, v45 n1 p37-56 2014
Peer education is an understudied yet valuable strategy for sustainability educators in shifting youth to take action for sustainability. This case study conceptualizes the change process in facilitating youth to take sustainability actions, and explores the benefits, dynamics, and challenges of peer education as a strategy in facilitating change. It assesses the learning of youth leaders of the "MindShift" program, and the extent to which they took action. Findings reveal multifaceted learning related to various antecedents of sustainability actions. The most influential elements of the peer education approach were peer support, meaningful contribution, teaching/leadership role, and student ownership.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Peer Teaching, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Case Studies, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), High School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Comparative Analysis, Semi Structured Interviews, Focus Groups, Field Experience Programs, Questionnaires, Rating Scales, Student Attitudes, Student Empowerment, Values
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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