There are a variety of strategies that can be used to promote environmental education and action, both in and outside of a classroom. People have set expectations and values regarding their energy use, but very few people actually realize that this issue is as close to home as it really is. Linking energy saving activities with social gratification (the idea that by doing this, one is a better person/people will like a person more), people are more likely to continuously participate in environment benefitting activities. Eventually this becomes a habit, and people might even find satisfaction in what they do without the social reward. Also, while presenting people with real facts is important, overloading them with scientific jargon will do nothing but overwhelm them, which won’t be effective in getting anyone to to much of anything.
On top of the variety of things mentioned here, there are plenty of other ways to make the education and advertisement of environmental action. Getting people’s attention and appealing to their morals and values is incredibly important, and this has to do with changing the language used to better appeal to their core beliefs. The way information and calls for help are presented to people has to involve appealing to their emotions and involve enough information and detail to influence them to act. And finally, using a variety of strategies to better appeal to people is important to getting their attention in the first place.
How would you get the attention of and educate people who are not still in school or in an adult learning environment?
ReplyDeleteThrough just about everything else I talked about! Online platforms, although not always the best, have tons of information that can better guide people to build better habits; they're also super easy to refer people to. Also, holding more serious discussions in adult learning environments, or anywhere at all, is a great way to educate people and encourage them to change.
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