Exploring challenges and lessons learned in cross-cultural environmental education research |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Maryland, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, 1234W Public Health Building (255), College Park, MD 20742, USA;2. Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA;3. Department of Community Health, Tufts University, 574 Boston Avenue–Suite 208, Medford, MA 02155, USA;4. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA;5. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Oncological Sciences, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA;6. Community Ministry of Prince George’s County, P.O. Box 250, Upper Marlboro, MD 20773, USA;1. Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, 2800 - 515 W. Hastings, Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3, Canada;2. School of Energy, Geosciences, Infrastructure, Heriot Watt University, William Arrol Building, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom;3. BC SUPPORT Unit Fraser Centre, 400-13450 102 Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 0H1, Canada;4. STAR Institute, Simon Fraser University, 2800 – 515 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3, Canada;1. Department of Foundations of Education, University of Venda, Private Bag, X5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Limpopo, South Africa;2. Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Venda, Private Bag, X5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, Limpopo, South Africa;3. Department of Educational Psychology, Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology, P. O. Box 50100, Kakamega, 50100, Kenya;4. Department of Foundations of Education, University of Venda, School od Education, Pricate Bag, X5050, Thohoyandou, 0950, South Africa;1. University of Idaho, College of Education,875 Perimeter Drive MS 2401, Moscow, ID, 83844, United States;2. University of South Carolina, 1300 Wheat Street, Blatt PE Center, Columbia, SC 29208, United States;3. Iowa State University, 534 Wallace Road, Ames, IA 5001, United States |
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| Abstract: | The field of environmental education (EE) has been criticized for scarcity of research findings that can be used to compare the approaches and outcomes of various interventions and contexts. This is particularly problematic for EE programs that are implemented across multi-cultural settings because very little academic attention has been devoted to cross-cultural EE research methods. Intending to address this gap, we set out to develop and pilot a pre/post survey in Costa Rica that could help us investigate the impacts of a bird-focused curriculum on Latin American children’s knowledge, attitudes, behavioral intentions, and behaviors toward birds and the natural world. This article describes the challenges encountered and subsequent adaptations made throughout our ongoing, iterative survey development process, in order to appropriately address language, sociocultural context, audience, and research-to-practice tensions. We present key lessons learned, including the importance of having strong local partners, the need to create a realistic research timetable that accounts for unique challenges involved in undertaking cross-cultural EE research, and the limitations of quantitative methods in this sort of research. |
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| Keywords: | Environmental education Cross-cultural research Quantitative methods Costa Rica |
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