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Cultivating Environmental Literacy in the English Classroom and Beyond

2016· article· en· W2307256480 on OpenAlexaff
David Huebert

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental Education and Sustainability
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiteracyEnvironmental educationPedagogyClimate changePolitical scienceSociologyPublic relationsEnvironmental resource managementEcologyEnvironmental science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently stated that along with ecological threats such as massive-scale extinction, loss of freshwater marine ecosystems, and drastic ocean acidification, “[a]ll aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change” (IPCC 18). Storms, droughts, and sea levels aside, continuing under the “business as usual” paradigm of carbon output and environmental waste means that a rapidly increasing percentage of the human population may die of starvation. Faced with the task of “educating ‘leaders for the future’” (Cotton et al., 2015, p. 456), it is critical that educators foster active engagement with such climate-change related issues. Following Cotton et al.’s (2015) claim that “developing students’ energy literacy is a key part of the ‘greening’ agenda” (p. 456), this workshop will focus on cultivating environmental literacy in English pedagogy at the post-secondary level. While there is ample research to support the general importance of environmental literacy (EL), there are few substantive outlines for implementing this material in the English classroom. This workshop offers English instructors hands-on assignments, exercises, and teaching strategies to help them cultivate EL as part of their pedagogy. In addition to practical pedagogical suggestions made throughout this article, three appendices offer detailed descriptions of particular classroom exercises.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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