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ERIC Number: EJ1202634
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-2255-7547
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Sustainability Education Using ICT-Supported Dialogue -- Towards Transforming Adolescents' Perceptions of Alcohol in the Punjab, India
Roy, Amit; Ikonen, Risto; Kumar, Kuldeep; Keinonen, Tuula
Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, v9 n2 p49-67 Dec 2018
A potential health crisis looms large in the Punjab, India where alcohol consumption has risen dramatically. Adolescents are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of alcohol. This empirical study presents a pedagogical intervention, Children as Agents of Social Change (CASC), which aimed to raise awareness about the effects of alcohol using an ICT-supported educational dialogue among adolescent students and alcohol-experts from multiple domains. Primary data consists of pre- and post-test questionnaires from the control and experimental groups (N=379) and an interview of the teacher-in-charge of one experimental school. Results indicate that the intervention significantly improved students' scientific knowledge about alcohol; changed their attitudes towards media and celebrity promotion of alcohol; and enabled them to surmount the odds to spread information - acquired during the CASC intervention- to people outside the school, including adult drinkers. Learner-centric pedagogy combined with ICT clearly amplified transformative learning. CASC appears to be a promising approach in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It can be used for multiple sustainability issues.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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