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Understanding and communicating climate change in metaphors

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Jun 2013Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:Environmental Education Research, volume 19, pages 282-302 (issn: 1350-4622, eissn: 1469-5871,

Authors: Niebert, K.; Gropengiesser, H.;

doi: 10.1080/13504622.2012.690855

Understanding and communicating climate change in metaphors

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An analysis of students’ conceptions on climate change shows a great confusion on key aspects of global warming. Even after instruction students often hold conceptions that differ from scientists’ conceptions. Student’s conceptions on global warming were collected in a reanalysis of 24 studies on everyday concepts of global warming as well as in an own interview study with 35 18-year-old students from German grammar schools. Climate-scientists conceptions were analysed from textbooks and research reports in a literature study. All data were analysed by systematic metaphor analysis and qualitative content analysis. Experientialism as a theory of metaphor provided insight in the process of understanding. The analysis of conceptions by experientialism shows that students and scientists have different metaphorical conceptions of global warming – but both refer to the same schemata. These schemata in mind we categorised the conceptions of global warming. Hereby we identified different thinking patterns in stud...

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conceptions, analogy, metaphor, /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304; name=Education, experientialism, climate change, /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action; name=SDG 13 - Climate Action, educational recontruction, /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/558271081; name=Didactics of sciences education

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