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The American Adolescent’s Environmental Ethic

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Educating leaders for an uncertain futureEducating leaders for an uncertain future on Planet Eaarthon Planet Eaarth

A presentation by Eleanor BurkeA presentation by Eleanor Burkefor Envr 120 / December 2010for Envr 120 / December 2010

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Today’s children will likely confront challenges we can hardly begin to imagine in

a radically altered, unrecognizable world. Can

we responsibly continue preparing them for

business as usual? And if not, what can we do to make them ready for a survival game in which

wild cards rule?

--Dianne Dumanoski The End of the Long Summer

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Graph from Wray-Lake, L., Flanagan, C.A., Osgood, D. W. (2010) Examining Trends in Adolescent Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Across Three Decades. Environment and Behavior (42:1) Retrieved October 2010 at http://eab.sagepub.com/content/42/1/61

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To follow the nature deficit theory, and To follow the nature deficit theory, and to learn about teensto learn about teens’’ implicit implicit

theory of TIME, I asked:theory of TIME, I asked:

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They answered:

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To understand teensTo understand teens’’ theory of agency theory of agency in the world Wray-Lake analyzed:in the world Wray-Lake analyzed:

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Graph from Wray-Lake, L., Flanagan, C.A., Osgood, D. W. (2010) Examining Trends in Adolescent Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Across Three Decades. Environment and Behavior (42:1) Retrieved October 2010 at http://eab.sagepub.com/content/42/1/61

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“When you don’t recycle a container at school, what is the main thing stopping

you?”

No response

I don’t care

about recycling

I’m too lazy; its botherso

me

I forget; I’m

careless

I don’t feel like

emptying it in the

sink

Too far to walk to

the barrel

I always recycle or

use my own bottle

12 4 20 16 4 34 15

(n=105)

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Teen Materialism Belief in the technofix remains high throughout 30-yr

study

Surpassed personal responsibility in the 1980’s

1976 1986 1996

2004

Data simplified from Wray-Lake, L., Flanagan, C.A., Osgood, D. W. (2010) Examining Trends in Adolescent Environmental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Across Three

Decades. Environment and Behavior (42:1) Retrieved October 2010 at http://eab.sagepub.com/content/42/1/61

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Time: Gotta check my Facebook---where’s my cell & my i-Pod?Agency: It’s the government’s job...the recycling barrel’s too far away

Change: I need a new pair of jeans & a new cell phone

Community, Authority, and System:These are in tender developmental stage in teen years,

And must be explicitly re-taught in the curriculum by using a New Environmental Paradigm

Teenenvironmental

silhouette thus far

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Guiding principles for a high school Guiding principles for a high school environmental curriculumenvironmental curriculum

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Appeal to youth’s sense of community, fairness, justice, and enlist teens as agents of change, as the new voices of authority in the world as they assume leadership

Provide real-world experiences, in and of the environment, a deep sense of system

Be realistic about costs of teen materialism, while using their electronic obsessions to advantage

To help teens develop anenvironmental ethic, the curriculum

must

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1. What is the story 1. What is the story behind all those jeans behind all those jeans

in your closet?in your closet?

Photo source: Diesel.comPhoto source: Diesel.com

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In a place that has In a place that has already felt the effects of already felt the effects of

climate change and/or climate change and/or the tragedy of the the tragedy of the

commonscommons

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Try for one week to Try for one week to disconnect yourself from disconnect yourself from the world community--the world community--

see if itsee if it’’s possible.s possible.

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