Ecological Literacy

Abstrak:
Dalam rangka membangun  generasi  literat  yang  mencintai  buku  dan  bangga akan  warisan  budaya  Indonesia,  Program  Studi  Perpustakaan  dan  Sains Informasi,        Fakultas        Ilmu        Komunikasi,        Universitas      Padjadjaran,menyelenggarakan  Program  Pengabdian  kepada  Masyarakat  (PKM)  bertema Membaca  Nyaring.Salah  satu kegiatan  PKM  ini adalah  penyampaianmateri tentang membaca nyaring bagi guru di SDN Lontong Jatigede Sumedang pada 6 Agustus 2025. Jumlah peserta pelatihan adalah 30 peserta, terdiri atasguru-guru SDN  Lontong,  dosen-dosen  dan  mahasiswa  Program  Studi Perpustakaan dan Sains  Informasi.Materi pelatihan mencakup  pengertian,  tujuan  dan  manfaat, aktivitas  membaca  nyaring  dalam  berbagai  konteks  dan  aktivitas  membaca nyaring  di sekolah  dasar, disampaikan  melalui  ceramah  interaktif.  Di SDN Lontong,  aktivitas  membaca  nyaring  sudah  dilaksanakan.  Namun  demikian,guru perlu  terus  memberikan  dorongan  positif  dan  memberikan  banyak kesempatan  kepada  siswa  untuk  berlatih,  didukung pengadaan  buku  yang menarik bagi siswa.Pelatihan inidiharapkan dapat menambah pengetahuan dan keterampilan  guru  dalam  melakukan  aktivitas  membaca  nyaring  pada  proses pembelajarandi sekolah.
Abstract:
In order to build a literate generation that loves books and takes pride in Indonesia's cultural heritage, the Library and Information Science Study Program, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, is organizing a Community Service Program (PKM) themed "Reading Aloud." One of the activities of this PKM is the delivery of material on reading aloud for teachers at SDN Lontong Jatigede Sumedang on August 6, 2025. The training session had 30 participants, including teachers from SDN Lontong, lecturers, and students from the Library and Information Science Program. The training material covered the concept, objectives, and benefits of reading aloud, as well as activities related to reading aloud in various contexts and at elementary schools, delivered through interactive lectures. At SDN Lontong, reading aloud activities have already been implemented. However, teachers need to continue providing positive encouragement and giving students ample opportunities to practice, supported by the provision of books that are appealing to students. This training is expected to enhance teachers' knowledge and skills in conducting reading aloud activities during the learning process at school.
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The environmental problem-solving skill is influenced by many factors, including academic ability. This study aims to analyze the relationship between academic ability and environmental problem-solving skill. The research method employed for this study was quantitative descriptive with survey technique. The number of respondents consisted of 245 Grade 11 science students from three Adiwiyata Senior High Schools in Tangerang City, Indonesia. Academic ability was measured by using the National Examination score of students in Junior High School, while environmental problemsolving skill was measured by way of an essay test. The results showed a weak positive relationship through the regression model (= 6.596 + .520X). The correlation coefficient obtained was .340 and the determination coefficient was 11.6%. Higher academic ability scores indicate better environmental problem-solving skills of the students. Based on the results of the study, other Indonesian schools should also implement the Adiwiyata programs in order to improve their students' academic ability and environmental problem-solving skills.

This comparative study, based on a sample of forty-four books, delves into the intricate relationship between literature, ecology, and politics in Palestinian and Israeli children's literature. It illuminates the pivotal role of these two fields in expressing and shaping realities in conflict zones. By focusing on nature and the environment, the study uncovers nuanced connections between ecopolitics and urban ecology, portraying Palestinian and Israeli struggles for a healthier environmental approach as integral parts of their ideological panoramas. On the one hand, Palestinian storytelling masterfully intertwines ecology, nationalism, and politics, underscoring the inseparable bond between nature and national identity under occupation. Beyond political commentary, this serves as a potent tool for cultivating green consciousness and ecological responsibility in young readers. On the other hand, Israeli children's literature spotlights urban ecological themes, which serve as key conduits for the state's environmental narratives, carrying subtle political undertones. While the Israeli stories may not overtly convey ecopolitical awareness, they do inspire green consciousness among readers. However, they also run the risk of being co-opted by the Israeli state's greenwashing mechanism, a potential pitfall that warrants further exploration.

This essay examines the eco-literacy of early youth, focusing on their consumption practices, everyday climate change activism, and performances of critical agency. By analyzing geosocial data from a recent study (Firinci Orman, 2024a), this piece underscores the significance of local contexts and relational understanding in climate education. It advocates for a pedagogical framework that emphasizes collective learning, creative expression, and place-based approaches to enhance climate literacy among young people. The findings support a participatory approach that empowers students to navigate the complexities of environmental challenges and cultivate ecoliterate citizenship.

In this article it is discussed current issues of language skills development in future chemical engineers. It is identified the main problems and difficulties that students face when learning English in the context of a technical specialty based on the analysis of scientific literature and the results of an empirical study. Innovative approaches to teaching aimed at developing communicative competence, developing the skills of reading scientific literature and conducting a professional discussion in English are proposed.

Higher education institution is one of educational institutions that serve as a place of cultural values, and norms expected to become a foundation to foster caring attitudes toward the environment. These attitudes are accordingly meant to develop ecological literacy in order to overcome environmental problems which are likely to be minimized by combining ecological literacy and creative thinking skills. A quantitative descriptive with correlational study was employed in this research. There were 275 college students from three areas in Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Sumatera, and Gorontalo involved as respondents of the research. Data was collected by means of Google Forms consisting of tests and opinions. The ecological literacy was analyzed using dimensions of caring, practical competence, and knowledge while the creative thinking skills were analyzed using dimensions of fluency, originality, flexibility, and elaboration. This research is limited to students in the Department of Science and Non-Science. Findings of the research indicates that the ecological literacy level is in the medium category, whereas the creative thinking skills are good. Female students have a higher average score in ecological literacy and creative thinking skills compared to that of male students. Thus, there is a positive relationship between ecological literacy and creative thinking skills.

This dissertation explores the reception of Russian strategic narratives among Russian-speaking youth in Latvia. Bringing together media and communication studies, international relations and Baltic studies, it approaches narrative persuasion and its reception from a cultural perspective.

The primary data for this study consist of 12 focus groups and 13 individual follow-up interviews with 69 young Russian speakers aged 18–30 in Riga, Daugavpils and Liepāja between 2021 and 2022. Drawing on the conceptual framework of strategic narratives, such narratives pertaining to history, freedom of speech and language were identified and analysed in Russian foreign policy documents, press briefings and Sputnik Latvia media texts. The media ecology in which these narratives were projected and received were studied using thematic analysis, focusing on participants’ media use and perception of news as a social and cultural context for the reception of narratives. Using Carolyn Michelle’s reception model, participants’ sensemaking of these narratives was analysed on denotative and connotative levels of meaning.

By adapting Michelle’s model, this study adds affect as a factor that influences the reception of narrative texts. It demonstrates that affect serves as a force that increases narrative persuasion, pushing participants to skip denotative levels of meaning and move directly to connotative levels. It is also a force that can push a reader into a mediated mode and become critical of the text because of its emotional content. Heightened or diminished affect facilitates shifts.

Findings reveal that young Russian speakers in Latvia are a far from homogeneous group. Generally, they are neither critically opposing Russian strategic narratives nor uncritically taking them to heart. The reality is rather somewhere in between. As such, this research project brings nuance to a situation where censorship, ‘us versus them’ thinking, and polarisation are increasingly taking over public discourse.

This chapter explores the impact of philosophy on critical thinking and student engagement in educational environments. By exploring philosophical methods such as Socratic questioning, dialectical reasoning, and reflective practice, we showcase how these approaches can be incorporated into different disciplines to foster a deeper level of thinking among students. We also analyze the practical applications and advantages of philosophical education, including improved problem-solving abilities, heightened intellectual curiosity, and enhanced moral reasoning. Furthermore, this section addresses the common challenges faced by educators when implementing philosophical techniques and provides strategies to overcome these hurdles. Through reallife examples and case studies, we demonstrate how philosophical engagement can revolutionize the learning experience, motivating students to become active, discerning thinkers who are equipped to tackle complex societal issues.

This case study explores a learning situation in a forest garden in Sweden. A forest garden is an edible polyculture landscape with different layers of mostly perennial vegetation. The forest garden is designed to maximize the yield of useful plants while minimizing the input of energy and resources, including human labour. Forest gardens may offer learning situations that contextualize interconnectedness and relations between organisms as well as situations that are beneficial for evaluative development (Kellert, 2002), i.e. the development of values, beliefs and moral perspectives in children. Twenty-seven seven to eight year old primary school children were followed in the first six months of a three year project in which they participated in developing a forest garden. The aim of the study is to investigate how the children reason with respect to different organisms' dependence on and relations to each other, themselves included. Specifically: How do the children describe their own relationships with other organisms, as well as the relationships between other organisms in the forest garden? What values of nature are expressed by the children, and in relation to which situations in the forest garden? Data were collected in the form of field notes, audio and video recordings and photos from the children's visits to the forest garden. The photos were used for stimulated recall in focus group interviews. The data were analysed using a combination of qualitative content analysis (Patton, 2002) and semi-quantitative methods. The children in the study presented a unidirectional perspective about the relationship between themselves and the organisms, especially the insects, in the forest garden. Rather than asking what these organisms can do for me/us, they pose the question: What can I/we do for the bugs/plants/ bees? This study shows that forest gardens have the potential to be places where children can connect emotionally and cognitively to other organisms.

Artikel ini mengutarakan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat bagi dosen. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk menumbuhkan literasi ekologis dengan keterampilan story-telling bermuatan konservasi bagi guru dan siswa di Sekolah Alam Ungaran (SAUNG), Kecamatan Ungaran Barat, Kabupaten Semarang.  Terdapat lima tahapan pelaksanaan dalam kegiatan ini pengabdian ini, yakni (1) sosialisasi; (2) pendaftaran peserta; (3) pembuatan bahan ajar dengan menggunakan beberapa buku bergambar legenda nusantara; (4) pelatihan sehari bagi guru-guru di Sekolah Alam Ungaran di Kecamatan Ungaran Barat; (5) praktek micro teaching; (6) observasi di lapangan. Hasil yang dicapai adalah literasi ekologis yang dimiliki guru dalam keterampilan story-telling bermuatan konservasi guru di Sekolah Alam Ungaran, Kabupaten Semarang, menjadi penekanan sejalan dengan latar belakang sekolah yang mengintegrasikan nilai-nilai tersebut. Untuk itu, literasi ekologis perlu terus dikembangkan tidak hanya pada sekolah-sekolah alam...

The tendency of using cell phones among Z generation is quite high. If it isn’t managed properly, it will cause negative impact such as behavioral disorders related to cell phone use, emotional disturbances, and so on. Based on the needs analysis conducted previously through surveys, interviews, and observations, in order to prevent addiction to cell phone use in adolescents, YARSI University community service team conducted psychoeducation for adolescents living around RPTRA Mardani Asri, Central Jakarta. The participants were pre-teenagers, teenagers, and also members of the Bina Keluarga Remaja in Cempaka Putih Barat, Central Jakarta. Psychoeducational material is delivered through lectures, discussions, questions and answers, and educational video screenings. Evaluation of activities is carried out by comparing the mean of pre-test and post-test scores, as well as observing participants during the implementation of activities. The results of the data analysis showed that this ps...

Storytelling is the scope of public speaking which concerns the way and art of speaking to other people or the public/audience. Therefore, telling stories requires repeated practice so that the speaker is confident and able to control himself and his audience. There are several things included in storytelling, namely MC/Host, Speech, Rhetoric, and so on. In conveying storytelling in public, you need skills in speaking and also literacy. Therefore, it is very important for speakers to master the material and stage by carrying out various kinds of training to develop literacy and grow self-confidence. To become a good speaker, you need to practice these two things. With storytelling training, speaking skills and literacy can be improved, especially for students in Batam, Riau Islands. This service looks at storytelling in improving students' speaking and literacy skills, exploring issues related to language learning and improving education. The design used is a qualitative research method. Data is collected through students' speaking and writing skills, as well as surveys and interviews with educators and students. In addition, community service activities are held to overcome barriers to language learning. Results showed that students who participated in storytelling activities showed significant improvements in speaking fluency, vocabulary use, and ability to compose detailed and clear literary descriptions.

Abstract: In 1944, noted conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote:" Acts of conservation without the requisite desires and skill are futile. To create these desires and skills, and the community motive, is the task of education." Almost sixty years later, in January 2003, the ...

The current study is anticipated to sightsee the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in transforming English Language Teaching (ELT) in Pakistan. The advent of AI unlocks the avenues for envisaging and renovating the facade of ELT to concentrate on the varied needs of 21 st century English Language Learners (ELLs). ELT extends a pivotal function in the educational landscape of Pakistan and English language proficiency is reckoned as a prerequisite for academic as well as professional attainment, but conformist modes of teaching fall short to embark upon the diverse requisites of ELLs. The study is carried out through a mixed method i.e. quantitative and qualitative outlook though predominantly it is commenced through the quantitative method. Data is collected from English Language Teachers (ELTs) who are teaching at tertiary echelons i.e. school, college and university in the course of a random sampling technique. For that questionnaire has been operated as a data collection instrument. The sample size of the participants in the study is 150 ELTs of both genders i.e. male and female. Findings of the study encapsulate that by harnessing the realm of AI, ELT will evolve towards a more refined, inclusive, inventive, vibrant and receptive Educational Technology (EdTech) ecosystem, potentially empowering ELLs of Pakistan to thrive in an excessively interconnected digital arena.

Current study is projected to explore eco-centric consciousness and ecological literacy among English Language Learners (ELLs) in Pakistan through the eminence of integrating green contents in English Language Textbooks (ELT) or in curricula. The study supplementary demonstrates the requisite and essentiality to instigate ELLs conscious about environmental  concerns and their potential imprints on human health in particular and life in general. In order to analyse the eco-centric consciousness and eco-literacy among ELLs for nurturing a sustainable ecological environ, the research has inferred a qualitative method of analysis to investigate green contents. Data is collected from ELT contents and to delimit the data green contents are extracted from elementary level ELT curriculum being taught under SNC 2023 in Pakistan. Purposive sampling technique is being exploited to extort two units i.e. “Smog” from grade 7 and “Trees Plantation” from grade 8. The
findings of the study designate that ELT contents are manoeuvred to foster environmental sustainability and eco-centric consciousness among ELLs of elementary level in Pakistan. It is derived through contrastive approach that has been espoused by the researcher with regard to assimilation of green contents in ELT. At one hand, ecological issues and challenges are incorporated through green contents and on the other hands, steps that are taken or being engaged to augment ecological literacy among ELLs are encapsulated in ELT contents. It is put in a nutshell through the analysis that green contents in ELT contents at elementary level in Pakistan have manipulating imprints on ELLs in order to nurture eco-centric consciousness and environmental sustainability. It has been undertaken through the projection of contrastive approach, i.e. projection of ecological menaces at one hand and tree plantation as a source of protecting environment and nurturing ecological literacy and sustainability among ELLs.

There is conclusive evidence that when used effectively, digital devices, tools, and resources can increase the speed and depth of science and mathematics learning for learners at the primary and secondary levels. There is suggestive evidence that the same can be said for some aspects of literacy, particularly writing and comprehension. Digital technology appears to be an appropriate vehicle for improving basic literacy and numeracy skills,  especially in primary education. While there are benefits to using digital learning, the magnitude of the effects is
generally similar to other educational interventions that are effective in raising achievement. The extent of the effect may also be tempered by teachers' level of competence in effective digital learning tools and resources to improve learning outcomes. More effective use of digital education to raise achievement requires that teachers have the ability to identify how digital tools and resources can be used to achieve learning outcomes and adapt their approaches, as well as
knowledge and understanding of technology. In this article, all features will be analyzed.

Environmental, economic, and social trends suggest the need for more sustainable ways of thinking and patterns of behaviour. Such a shift would require humanity to function at high levels of ecological literacy, which relies on a certain amount of scientific literacy. However, troubling evidence indicates an international pattern of student disengagement with science at the secondary level. Evidence also suggests that it is difficult to integrate environmental or sustainability education at this level, both within New Zealand and elsewhere. This research was aimed at examining the use of a novel approach, using permaculture, in junior secondary science (Years 9 and 10) to enhance students’ ecological and scientific literacy, as well as their attitudes toward studying science in school.Permaculture is an ecological design system based on science and ethics. A permaculture approach to science education involves eco-design thinking, as well as the use of local permaculture properties a...

The importance of environmental literacy as well as environmental issues has long been recognized and became a major area of research in the twenty-first century. Environmental literacy, environmental awareness, and environmental sustainability are interwoven concepts. Environmental literacy is defined as the awareness and concern about the environment and its associated problems, as well as the knowledge, skills and motivation to work towards solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones (NAAEE, 2004).

This text explores Gregory Bateson's notion of the 'metaphor that is meant.' It delves into the profound influence of deeply ingrained metaphors on human behavior, societal norms, and cultural identity. It illustrates how these metaphors shape beliefs, inspire devotion, and even provoke conflict, ultimately shaping the course of civilizations.

An ecosystem is a dynamic wholeness containing living and non-living components, and it can be as small as the stomach of an insect or as big as an ocean. The natural environment is a part of an ecosystem. The distinguished element of ecosystems is mankind whose activities affect it readily. There is no inhabitable world other than the great ecosystem of our biosphere. Every person should live without harming the harmony of the peerless world. If we are living in the same and one world, ecological issues should not be monopolized by one authority whether it is a group, a country or whatsoever (Usacheva, 2012). Humanity has never had the need for this much collaboration before (Donovan, 2015). Nowadays, debates are occurring on the execution of education systems all over the world and particularly science education, from kindergarten to higher vocational and academic levels. Also, the accumulation of incredible amounts of knowledge and technology makes all levels of society ask thems...

this study explores youth eco-literacy and its role in addressing the climate crisis, consumption, and socio-political challenges. eco-literacy involves environmental understanding, skills, and critical perspectives, enabling active engagement and informed  decision-making.  through  geo-social  lenses,  i  examine  how  turkish  youth participate politically, both online and offline, in climate change and con-sumerism dialogues, considering local, global, and planetary perspectives. the analysis  focuses  on  young  people’s  interpretive  agency,  creatively  expressing  environmental ideologies and shaping values with a political stance characterized by  reflexivity,  agency,  and  commitment  to  daily  activism  and  eco-friendly  life-styles. Qualitative data collection included discussions on daily environmental practices and essays on environmental citizenship, covering eco-literacy sources, responsible actors, and ecological awareness strategies. Findings illustrate how young participants address opportunities and disparities, utilizing the research environment  for  collective  learning  and  action.  the  study  further  investigates  young people’s showcase of their eco-literacies and advocacy for a public (eco) pedagogy beyond traditional education.

The social green economy prioritises the use of green technologies and sustainable practices in economic activities, resulting in a reduction in environmental impact and an improvement in social well-being (Guo et al., 2020; Söderholm, 2020). Furthermore, the efficiency evaluation of the green economy development of forestry is related to the direction of forestry development and plays an important role in balancing economic and environmental issues within it (Huang et al., 2022). This study aims to explain forest community projects as a promising example of how sustainable development and the green economy can be achieved through community-based initiatives. A qualitative approach was applied. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 key informants, employing purposive sampling. Content analysis and NVivo were adopted to analyse the data. The findings confirmed the potential benefits of community-based forestry initiatives, such as job creation, poverty reduction, and environment...

The tendency of using cell phones among Z generation is quite high. If it isn’t managed properly, it will cause negative impact such as behavioral disorders related to cell phone use, emotional disturbances, and so on. Based on the needs analysis conducted previously through surveys, interviews, and observations, in order to prevent addiction to cell phone use in adolescents, YARSI University community service team conducted psychoeducation for adolescents living around RPTRA Mardani Asri, Central Jakarta. The participants were pre-teenagers, teenagers, and also members of the Bina Keluarga Remaja in Cempaka Putih Barat, Central Jakarta. Psychoeducational material is delivered through lectures, discussions, questions and answers, and educational video screenings. Evaluation of activities is carried out by comparing the mean of pre-test and post-test scores, as well as observing participants during the implementation of activities. The results of the data analysis showed that this ps...

Joanna Boehnert has a well established reputation for demanding that politics be foregrounded in any consideration of design, and especially design for sustainability. Design Ecology Politics: Towards the Ecocene is her masterwork, an extended diagnosis and prognosis of the structural causes of the present and ongoing unsustainability of contemporary society. The book is a culmination of a long track record of publication, including a PhD on the visual communication of ecological literacy, and active participation in the scholarly discourse of design for sustainability. Boehnert has been active for several years in debates on the agency of designers in responding to the challenges of The Design Journal

Meskipun masih terdapat kontroversi untuk mengenalkan literasi dwibahasa bagi anak usia dini di Indonesia, tetapi fenomena ini semakin marak di ranah pendidikan. Beberapa sekolah telah memprogramkan kegiatan ini sebagai bagian dari keunggulan mereka. Artikel ini mengeksplorasi penggunaan big book storytelling yang diterapkan oleh sebuah taman kanak-kanak yang ada di Banjarmasin, Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan strategi penerapan big book storytelling yang tepat untuk pengenalan kemampuan dwibahasa bagi anak usia dini serta melihat respon mereka terhadap penggunaan media tersebut di dalam kelas. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian tindakan kolaboratif, dengan wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi sebagai instrumen pengumpulan data terkait persiapan, pelaksanaan, dan refleksi pasca tindakan. Penelitian ini melibatkan dua orang guru dan 24 anak sebagai partisipan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa big book storytelling dapat digunakan untuk mengenalkan kos...

This chapter reviews the decline in high trophic level or ‘table’ fish on Canada’s Pacific coast in the context of global depletion, the potential extinction of marine species and the economic and social drivers of overfishing. Impacts on Aboriginal and other coastal communities are identified. Whole ecosystem (Ecosim) models of northern British Columbia as it was in the 1750s and present-day are used to determine the sustainable food production potential of both past and present systems under different exploitation scenarios. The food production potential of the 2000 and 1750s ecosystems was assessed under four twenty-five-year simulation scenarios. Results indicate that the 1750s system could have sustainably generated over twenty times the current annual food production in northern British Columbia’s capture fisheries, while meeting UN food security criteria including cultural appropriateness. The present-day system could sustainably produce six times the fisheries yields extract...

Fisheries management is seen as the result of a process of organic growth and accretion driven by the realization that human ingenuity has outstripped the productive capacity of fisheries. The evolution of the symbiotic scientific and management communities is traced from an expansionist period in the 1950s and 1960s to today's climate of depletion. Stakeholder trust in the quality of the information that underpins management decisions, and a guarantee of continuing benefits, are proposed as the key elements of sustainability. Inclusivity, perspective and clarity are identified as key contributors to the perception of fairness, which alone can ensure that fishers comply with management systems. The role of fishing communities, science, government, the public and other interests in policy making is discussed. The reinvention of fisheries management cannot be entrusted to a new partnership, however comprehensive, among those directly involved in fisheries. Fish and fisheries must somehow capture the support of the general public, to whom political decision makers respond. The preservation of fisheries values must become a vital consideration for industry. One way to approach this is to stop dead fish and start selling fish as a metaphor for the quality of life. Ecosystem approaches, interdisciplinary cooperation. Dialogue with fishers and fishing communities and the incorporation of local ecological knowledge, may yet enable fisheries management to haul itself out of the water like Darwin's fish and peer blearily at the fresh environment. The next evolutionary challenge is to integrate human communities into the model as more than just a component of fishing mortality.

Applied ecomusicologies address interdisciplinary problems that bear on music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Titon's ecocentric concept of the ‘sound commons’ (2012) offers a framework for theorising and focusing applied ecomusicologies. A sound commons expresses an ecological rationality as a soundscape in which all beings enjoy a commonwealth of sound, freely communicating in their acoustic niches with as little interference as possible. This chapter examines two principal perspectives in applied ecomusicologies. First, non-consumptive values are illustrated through discussion of the musical performance and media production collective Ecosong.net and their project Together Alone, which aims to actualise the principles, ethics, and objectives of the sound commons. Second, consumption of environmental materials, for example for musical instruments and infrastructure, is critiqued in the context of how such consumption allows for modern music culture to exist in the planetary sound commons. Doing so pushes applied musicological work from anthropocentrism towards ecocentrism.

The tasks of the nervous system contained in the human body include diagnosing, analyzing and conveying information. This information that has been obtained will be combined with the sensory system, and will then be integrated in the brain and signals, then transmitted again to the motor system and autonomic pathways to control movement, visceral activity, and endocrine function. All actions are controlled by nerves which are interconnected to form a signaling network consisting of the sensory system and the motor system. The nervous system has several functions, including immunity and supporting function and modulating the activity of the nervous system. There are many types of neurological diseases found in the medical world, but due to a lack of information and knowledge about the disease. So the researchers made this study using forward and backward chaining reasoning methods, along with neurological disease therapy, ways of healing, and methods of treatment. This system is made...

Resumo Este artigo apresenta a proposta da Alfabetização Ecológica como um meio de educar para a sustentabilidade. A Eco-alfabetização possui princípios baseados na ecologia e tem a teoria dos sistemas vivos como um norte teórico que forma sua visão e ...

Bahasa Inggris merupakan salah satu mata pelajaran yang wajib dikuasai oleh siswa Sekolah Dasar. Namun siswa mengalami kesulitan berkomunikasi karena kurangnya penguasaan kosakata bahasa Inggris. Hal ini didukung pula dengan pembelajaran di sekolah yang lebih banyak menggunakan buku teks daripada menggunakan metode pembelajaran lain yang lebih menarik sehingga kegiatan pengabdian siswa/siswi ini perlu dilakukan di SDN 104211, Kabupaten Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara. Tujuan dari kegiatan pengabdian siswa/siswi ini adalah untuk melatih siswa sekolah dasar berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris untuk mengembangkan pengetahuan dan ketrampilan kosakata dengan penggunaan media flash card. Metode yang dilakukan dalam kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyrakat ini melalui pelatihan ini ada dua tahap kegiatan yaitu teoritik dan praktis (Muhtadi, 2011; Tilaar, 1992). Dengan penggunaan media flash card, siswa SDN 104211 Kabupaten Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara semakin terlatih berbicara bahasa Inggris dan ...

In the past two decades the topic of “green jobs” has drawn particular attention, resulting in a widely diverse and relatively large number of published papers. Although a determinant for the increase of knowledge, the heterogeneity of these studies may raise the issue of a systematic documentation of the key contributions in this field. In this context, the present research focuses on analyzing the scientific literature published in the last five years on the topic of “green jobs” with the aim to identify definitions and meanings associated with the concept of “green jobs”, the connected terms, areas of research interest and the main theoretical and practical results. The results reveal that although there is no uniformity in the definition of the concept, there is still a convergence towards the initial meaning offered by the UNEP/ILO/IOE/ITUC Report of 2008. Moreover, using scientific software VOSViewer our research shows that the concept of “green jobs” is most linked with the f...

This thesis offers an ethnographic analysis of everyday life in a post-catastrophe landscape shaped by two major disaster-processes-Hurricane Katrina (in 2005) and the BP oil spill (in 2010). By exploring local cultural 'becoming', it argues that the impact of these disaster-processes should not be conceptualised within a bounded period of 'recovery', but should be understood as forming part of the ongoing construction of local landscape and everyday lived experience. The community of southern Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, where this study was based, has an ongoing relationship with hurricanes and oil spills, which occur (or threaten to occur) with such frequency as to normalise the experience of disaster in local social life. Katrina and the BP oil spill were outliers of experience due to their vast scale and relative impact, but they were experienced by a community where local narratives of past catastrophes (such as the major hurricanes of the 1960s), and the direct experience of multiple smaller disaster-processes were deeply woven into local culture. Furthermore, beyond the impact of these catastrophes this community was already experiencing widespread cultural and economic precariousness. Firstly, where local hierarchies of power (largely centred around White men) had become increasingly threatened in the latter part of the 20 th century, and secondly, where local economic activity was characterised by high levels of instability and irregular employment. These catastrophes were therefore experienced in a context of already ongoing structural precariousness, which in turn was impacted by the ongoing 'recovery' from these large disaster-processes. It argues that while material or institutional reconstruction may be successfully measured in terms of recovery goals or milestones, the cultural impact and 'recovery' from these catastrophes should be conceptualised as forming part of the never-ending process of 'becoming', ultimately woven into the ongoing experience of mundane everyday life.

This thesis offers an ethnographic analysis of everyday life in a post-catastrophe landscape shaped by two major disaster-processes – Hurricane Katrina (in 2005) and the BP oil spill (in 2010). By exploring local cultural ‘becoming’, it argues that the impact of these disaster-processes should not be conceptualised within a bounded period of ‘recovery’, but should be understood as forming part of the on-going construction of local landscape and everyday lived experience. The community of southern Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, where this study was based, has an on-going relationship with hurricanes and oil spills, which occur (or threaten to occur) with such frequency as to normalise the experience of disaster in local social life. Katrina and the BP oil spill were outliers of experience due to their vast scale and relative impact, but they were experienced by a community where local narratives of past catastrophes (such as the major hurricanes of the 1960s), and the direct experien...

Climate change has emerged as a salient issue within the USA. In response, many environmental organizations have pushed climate change to the top of their agendas. As a consequence, critics have charged that environmentalists have decreased attention to-or abandoned altogether-traditional issues such as biodiversity. This research provides empirical data to evaluate such claims. I assess the degree to which climate change has come to dominate US environmental group agendas, using data from organizational websites, financial statements, and interviews. I find that climate change has moved to the top of group agendas, emerging as a key priority and commanding a significant percentage of organizational funding. However, rather than being associated with the neglect of other issues, analysis shows that groups tend to work on a greater number of issues after they prioritize climate change. Moreover, the nature of environmental campaigns has evolved as attention to climate change has increased.

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool for obtaining information about the ecological literacy of adults. For this purpose, a 72-item and three-part measurement tool was created in accordance with information in the literature and presented to experts for their opinions. After finalizing the scale in accordance with the feedback received, the 25-item 5-point Likert-type Ecological Literacy Awareness Scale, the 17-item true/false-type Ecological Literacy Knowledge Test (1), and the 17-item multiple-choice Ecological Literacy Knowledge Test (2) were created. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) group comprised 294 teacher candidates studying in the Ankara and Balıkesir provinces of Turkey. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) group comprised 376 teacher candidates. The 59-item draft measurement tool was administered to two study groups. These study groups were selected by convenience sampling method, a non-probability sampling method. The data of the first group were used for exploratory factor analysis and the data of the second group were used for confirmatory factor analysis. It was determined that the finalized 37-item and three-part Ecological Literacy Measurement Tool for Adults (ELMT) was valid and reliable in determining the awareness and knowledge of teacher candidates about ecological literacy.

Climate change has become a critical 21 st global problem, and with it, more threats to planetary existence are increasing. Notwithstanding the seriousness of the climate problem, politicians and policymakers in South Africa and globally have identified climate change as a problem but prescribe solutions that extend either the interests of the fossil fuel industry under the guise of technological development (clean coal and carbon sequestration) or Promethean neoliberal solutions benchmarked on renewable energy and carbon trading. Both solutions prioritise neoliberal interests and fall short of averting a more severe biospheric and planetary catastrophe. The news media, generally long thought of as the societal 'watchdog,' have also acceded to the injunctions of profit and accumulation, and construct climate change and solutions to it within paradigms that promote capitalist self-mutation. Through theoretical sampling, this discourse analysis study selected four weekly newspapers from South Africa, namely, the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times, and the City Press, and examined how they represented climate change discourses. The media selected for this study were instrumental and had sheer capacity to define and determine the frames and representations within which climate change is articulated and understood in South Africa and outside. At a grand theoretical level, the thesis incorporated the metabolic rift/ecological rift theories (

My profound gratitude goes to my supervisor, Professor Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, whose timely guidance, comments and constructive criticism have made this work enjoyable and possible. Her scholarly support helped me get through the different stages of putting this work together. I am very thankful for her generous help in providing me with very good references whenever the objectives of this study needed them. I would like to register my acknowledgement and appreciation to the Centre for Communication, Media and Society in particular and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in general for granting me the opportunity to study at this premium university of African scholarship. The work has been strenuous, but the continuous encouragements, critical conversations and moral company of my beloved Rose kept me focused. Finally yet importantly, nothing can describe my indebtedness to my family, but I would like to thank them for their unwavering trust. Overall I glorify our Mighty God for his unfailing love and companionship throughout the course.

G-Readiness is a framework used to measure or assess the readiness, ability of an organization to adopt and implement information and communication technology in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. This research aims to analyze the influences of digital literacy, technological literacy, and ecological literacy as predictors of attitudes toward ICT G-Readiness. Relational descriptive models are used to detect the presence and level of covariance. The participants in this research were 368 students. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the scale were conducted. The research hypothesis was tested using structural equation modeling. The research results show that digital literacy, technological literacy, and ecological literacy simultaneously have a significant influence and explain students' attitudes towards ICT G-Readiness. Different suggestions have been developed based on research results.

A person's attitude to death is influenced by the critical situations he encounters in his life. The war, which began in Ukraine at the beginning of 2022, made people's feelings about death relevant, because death has become everyday reality in the lives of Ukrainians. The purpose of the study is to determine the peculiarities of middle-aged people attitude to the phenomenon of death during the war in Ukraine. A sample of subjects (N=76) who previously participated in our research in 2019 and 2020 during the coronavirus infection. The age of the subjects varies as follows: Me=44.00; min=35.00; max=55.00. Research methods: the "Attitude to Death" method (I.Yu. Kulagina, L.V. Senkevich), the "Attitude to Death Scale" method by D.V. Hardt, Metaphor of Personal Death technique-the Revised Death Fantasy Scale (RDFS) J. McLennan. It was determined that the attitude towards death in people of the studied middle-aged group during the war is ambivalent with a certain deviation towards the positive. The studied group is characterized by an average level of stress resistance, which is associated with thoughts about death. The choice of metaphors about death is determined by the degree of attitude positivity towards death: a pessimistic attitude towards death is associated with negative thoughts about death, fixation on its external side, avoidance of contact with death. Lack of seeing a positive perspective in death leads to pessimism and negative thoughts. An optimistic attitude towards death is associated with the rare occurrence of negative thoughts about own death, perception of death as a necessary aspect of being, openness to contact with death. Significant differences were found between believers and atheists on the indicator of positive thoughts about their own death: believers showed a high level of acceptance of death. Significant differences in attitudes toward death between men and women were also identified: men have a more positive and "black" humor to thoughts about death.

Interdisciplinary work avoids specialisation's growing fragmentation, but it also loses the political advantage of setting criteria and patrolling boundaries. Research that faces the challenge of bringing together concepts from several areas (e.g. in deep ecology, health studies, and natural resource management) is often criticised for blurring distinctions, for being unscientific, and for being conceptually trite. In addition, disciplinary work produces advantages for its practitioners which those who attempt more open approaches rarely enjoy. Besides epistemic authority and public legitimacy, such advantages include a degree of control over resources, clearer standards for publishing, and a critical mass of disciplined members who protect the turf of their specialisation. How can interdisciplinary work in future best play the political game? Should interdisciplinary scholars be between the boundaries of other areas, exhorting those protected within to choose relevance and come out and do as we do? Do we need boundaries for interdisciplinary work, carefully and vigorously controlled, so that we too can form distinctions based on criteria for methodological rigour? Is there a place for full theoretical awareness of what distinguishes interdisciplinary work? If interdisciplinarity is to mobilise support, does it need, just like any discipline, its own self-regulating guild? The Politics of Disciplinary Advantage Interdisciplinarity cannot simply be about filling in gaps between disciplines, as if the travelling was only along and around the boundaries. There is residual subject matter inadvertently forgotten by the disciplines (see Campbell, 1986) but not from absent-mindedness. Discipline is caught unprepared by complexity. And real and pressing problems are complex (Booth et al., 2000, p. 28). 1 The way in which we dealt with the complexity of one hundred years ago-an essentially disciplinary mode-has lost much of its application in contemporary translation. This is because the methodological investigation which has brought us to the current juncture has been so effective. Conceptual simplifications enabling system complexity to proliferate have created new conditions which must now be addressed via fresh forms of clarity. This understanding is embedded within the interdisciplinary charter. Interdisciplinary scholars hold in common the recognition that we need to create a new structuring framework which makes it progressively brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk

para aplicar ideas relativas al funcionamiento de los ecosistemas y los patrones de pensamiento causal que activan en sus explicaciones. Para la obtención de datos se utilizó un cuestionario de preguntas abiertas. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría de los estudiantes tuvieron dificultades para aplicar ideas como el papel de los organismos descomponedores, el flujo de energía y el concepto de energía química. Los resultados también sugieren que la familiaridad con los conceptos es clave para activar patrones de razonamiento causal complejo.