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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
卷 27, 期 2, 页码 254-278出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2020.1803797
关键词
Virtual reality; ocean acidification; climate change; technology uses in education; environmental education
Ocean Acidification (OA) is a new environmental issue that is still unfamiliar to the public, and educators face challenges in teaching OA due to lack of science literacy, educational preparation, and the complex nature of OA. Virtual reality technology may help marine educators address these challenges through empowerment, perspective-taking, and visualization.
Ocean Acidification (OA) is an emerging environmental issue that is still largely unknown to the public and in its infancy in terms of educational strategies. OA teaching material should address the specific challenges that educators face while building learners' understanding of OA. The objective of this study is two-fold. First, we identified the barriers to teaching OA as experienced by formal and informal marine educators. Second, we provided educators an opportunity to experience virtual reality and discuss how it could serve as a tool for face-to-face and distance learning to address the identified challenges. The findings shed light on four overarching themes of challenges to teaching OA: lack of science literacy, unprepared education field, complex and invisible nature of OA and lack of personal connection with the ocean. Marine educators consider empowerment, perspective-taking and visualization as the three principal avenues through which virtual reality may contribute to mitigating the challenges to teaching OA.
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