Children’s explanations in at-risk zones: fostering hope through science education in Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay

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dc.contributor.authorCabello González, Valeria Magaly
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-02T14:23:16Z
dc.date.available2024-10-02T14:23:16Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractConsidering the increasing severity of environmental disasters and the scarcity of studies centered on children’s perspectives, this article explores context-based learning to create spaces of hope. Constructing explanations fosters meaning creation and knowledge integration. Fourth graders’ self-explanations about contamination in a degraded area, known as an “environmental sacrifice zone”, were analyzed. The educational research design within a humanistic paradigm aimed to be responsive to participants’ needs. Children’s explanations were gathered through interviews and images. The qualitative thematic analysis identified three types of explanations and six causal factors. Some students did not recognize the local contamination despite its relevance to their daily lives. In contrast, others associated and contrasted the phenomena with earthquakes and tsunamis that could lead to disasters. The participants expressed socioscientific reasoning, revealing causal relationships, involving agents of damage, and highlighting environmental injustice as a consequence. Facilitating dialogues with children living in at-risk areas is interpreted as a restorative action in education and advocating for their right to be heard on matters that affect them. This article discusses the role of responsive research in context-based science learning, emphasizing the opportunities to mediate human actions and foster spaces of hope and awareness in connection with environmental justice issues.
dc.format.extent27 páginas
dc.fuente.origenSCOPUS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1554480X.2024.2397537
dc.identifier.eissn1554-4818
dc.identifier.issn1554-480X
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID:85203006383
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/88061
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001304606400001
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Educación; Cabello González, Valeria Magaly; 0000-0001-6190-9187; 127258
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido parcial
dc.pagina.final27
dc.pagina.inicio1
dc.revistaPedagogies: An International Journal
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcontamination
dc.subjectpollution
dc.subjectprimary education
dc.subjectscience learning
dc.subjectSelf-explanations
dc.subject.ddc370
dc.subject.deweyEducaciónes_ES
dc.subject.ods04 Quality education
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación de calidad
dc.titleChildren’s explanations in at-risk zones: fostering hope through science education in Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen19
sipa.codpersvinculados127258
sipa.trazabilidadSCOPUS;2024-09-15
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