"Environmental awareness" and rock climbing: changing pedagogies to enhance pro-environmental graduate attributes. Issue 2 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Couper, Pauline; Porter, Su
• Is Part Of: Journal of geography in higher education. Volume 40:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 207
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Environmental identity -- education for sustainable development -- graduate attributes -- outdoor learning -- rock climbing -- autoethnography; Geography -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 910.711
• DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1141187
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-8265

Abstract

Abstract: Geography has long been seen as having a central role in education for sustainable development, and yet the degree to which a geographical education translates to personal capacities for action has been questioned. Having struggled for some years to engage Outdoor Adventure Education students with physical geography science-based knowledge of the environment, we trialled a pedagogical shift to emphasize a relational, self-in-environment consciousness developed through autoethnography. We recount this experience to suggest that a similar approach may have potential to connect geography students' cognitive knowledge of societies and environments with personal identities and capacities for action.