Reconnecting with nature in digital times: The power or supremacy of municipal education policies?
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https://doi.org/10.5944/educxx1.42260Keywords:
local government, digitalization, young people, technology, nature, environmental educationAbstract
This article aims to examine the role played by municipal policies in (re)connecting with nature practices in global digitization environments. In particular, the article analyzes the possible implications of local government for the narratives that young people develop about more sustainable educational models and facilitators of links with the natural environment. At the methodological level, a first phase of fieldwork has been carried out, articulated through the development of different activities (directed/undirected, with or without technological resources) by 154 boys and girls between 9 and 12 years (110) and between 13 and 16 years (44), carried out in different urban natural environments as well as in nature contexts where two weekend camping trips have been held. The data analyzed come from a total of 193 informal interviews developed within the framework of direct observation carried out in the field trips. The main results are, on the one hand, the role that local administrations are assuming in both formal and non-formal governance issues and, on the other hand, the capacity shown by the actors under study, from their narratives and actions, in the co-construction of environmental education policies and the consolidation of healthy environments. It is concluded that there is a need to articulate a systematized channel of collaboration between actors that (such as schools and municipalities) have had, until now, less political experience.
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