Project Overview
This project targets people who visit museums or aquariums (including Western Americans, Brazilians, and the Taiwanese) and those with traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom (TEKW) – experience acquired over thousands of years of human-environment interaction – regarding the relationship with nature (e.g., Indigenous people in the U.S.), to test what factors shape one’s environmental identity as well as worldview and see how environmental identity and worldviews affect (facilitate or hinder) an individual’s learning experiences (activity engagement), perception, and take-aways regarding abstract concepts (e.g., OA) in free-choice learning settings.
Overall, there are three parts in this research.
16 questions survey
Personal Meaning Mapping (drawing)
Interview
What To Expect
Our intention is to deliver educational content to improve students professional and scientific knowledge, skills, and abilities.
To provide teachers with our results to evaluate students' learning experiences in STEM.
The results will be published in an international journal and conference since this is an international research.
We welcome you to bring students to visit Hatfiled Marine Center.
to learn more about local marine issues
to raise students' critical thinking skills
to their environmental stewarship.
Three Phases of The Research
Phase I: EID Survey
This study focuses on investigating what the subject’s EID is regarding people from different places or cultural groups
Phase II: PMM
This study focuses on exploring what types of life experiences are associated with an individual’s EID that affects their perception and actions on specific issues.
Phase III: Interview
This study is to understand how people percept, interpret, and narrativize specific experiences link abstract concepts (e.g., climate change and OA). This study will be done through life experiences discourse or what we called “narrativeinterview”.