Hoch, Ann Elisabeth

Building Future Environmental Stewards: An Investigation of Cognitive vs. Affective Education Domains.

o.O. /(New Nork)

2017

Thesis; New York University College of Arts and Science

A connection between traditional environmental education curriculum development and the lack of influence of the affective education domain may be generating less environmental stewards. The affective domain encourages emotional responsive learning that is theorized to drive personal attitudes and behavior. This study evaluates an affective designed environmental education lesson plan to determine if there is a measurable emotional response to nature. The Love for Nature Scale (LNS) assessments were utilized for two 5th grade elementary environmental education lessons to measure emotional responses to the affective and cognitive (control) lesson designs. Qualitative results indicated that students had equally inconsistent emotional responses to the affective and cognitive environmental education lessons. However utilizing statistical analysis students quantifiably improved spiritual awareness along with a heightened emotional response to cognitive topic emotions. Results also indicate that traditional cognitive environmental education lesson design may already provide a heightened emotional response due to John Dewey′s experiential learning model. Further research is now needed to study the affective design within formal STEME education settings and its impact on emotional responses to environmental topics.

1.) Abstract P.3
2.) Introduction P.3
3.) Literature Review
a.) Emotions P.4
b.) Emotions and the Environment P.5
c.) Measuring Emotions in Environmentalism P.6
d.) Environmental Education and the Affective Domain P.7
e.) Affective Learning and Cognitive Learning in EE P.8
f.) Implementing Affective Learning in EE Curriculum P.8
g.) Modern Affective EE Learning Lesson Plan Techniques P.9
h.) Lesson Plan Agenda P.11
4.) Methods P.12
5.) Results P.14
6.) Discussion P.16
7.) Conclusion P.18
8.) Appendix P. 19

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23.03.2018