2021 journal article
Intergenerational learning: A recommendation for engaging youth to address marine debris challenges
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN, 170.
author keywords: Intergenerational learning; Youth; Marine debris; Environmental education; Education; Youth empowerment; Social solutions; Citizen science
MeSH headings : Adolescent; Adult; Child; Humans; Students
TL;DR:
How integrating IGL and civic engagement into K-12-based marine debris curricula may start a virtuous circle benefiting teachers, students, families, communities, and the ocean is described.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
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Added: August 30, 2021
Youth can impact environmental attitudes and behaviors among adults. Indeed, research on intergenerational learning has demonstrated the influence of young people on adults in their lives for myriad environmental topics. Intergenerational learning (IGL) refers to the bidirectional transfer of knowledge, attitudes, or behaviors from children to their parents or other adults and vice versa. We suggest an educational framework wherein K-12 marine debris education designed to maximize IGL may be a strategy to accelerate interdisciplinary, community-level solutions to marine debris. Although technical strategies continue to be developed to address the marine debris crisis, even the most strictly technical of these benefit from social support. Here, we present 10 Best Practices grounded in educational, IGL, and youth civic engagement literature to promote marine debris solutions. We describe how integrating IGL and civic engagement into K-12-based marine debris curricula may start a virtuous circle benefiting teachers, students, families, communities, and the ocean.