Journeying between Home and Nature: A Geo-Phenomenological Exploration and its Insights for Learning

Hung, Ruyu

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“…The broadening scope of relevant research reflects the trend towards a holistic assessment of the environment. It has been proposed that environmental behaviors are a function of past experience and memory, value and beliefs, and local culture and history (Burgess et al, 1988;Coles and Bussey, 2000;Noёl et al, 2000;Bhagwat, 2009;Drenthen, 2009;Hung, 2010).…”

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Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces

Jim

2010

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The social profiles of residential communities exert differential effects on expectations and demands on urban greenspaces. We studied the diversity of public perception towards urban greenspaces in compact urban Hong Kong. Random household samples were selected from four dominant residential communities: old-core public housing (OP), old-core residential (OR), suburban residential (SR), and new-town public housing (NP). They denote gradations in income, housing quality, physical and social milieu, and development age. Face-to-face interviews were conducted using a structured questionnaire. Residents' attitude, visiting pattern, greenspace preference, and assessment of neighborhood quality were investigated. SR presented distinctive results in comparison with others. The moderate differences between the remaining three communities were mainly linked to local traits in park environs. OP more emphasized the function of communal places for neighborly interactions associated with better social relationship of an older population. Parks in OR were the more frequently visited, even though its residents were sensitive to the negative impacts of urban greenspaces, which was related to urban blight in the environs. SR respondents highly appreciated greenspaces as pleasant settings for family activities and aesthetic enjoyment. NP residents were less frequent visitors despite generous park provision, due to the youthful population, weak social cohesion, and limited integration of new migrants. Community quality factors such as neighborhood relationship and urban density influenced the perception. Social qualities were more important than the physical aspects of parks in influencing visitorship. The findings suggest future research to deepen understanding of public perception towards urban greenspaces to inform park design.

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Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces

Jim

2010

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“…Nature includes the areas that are penetrated by intellect and the territories that are beyond human understanding. Thus, nature can be seen as a spatial and conceptual aporia implying familiarity and strangeness (Hung, 2010a(Hung, , 2010b. Place, in contrast, is the territory of known meanings.…”

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In Search of Ecopedagogy: Emplacing Nature In the Light of Proust and Thoreau

Hung

2014

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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In this article I intend to explore one possible way of using place to rethink nature, the relationship between humans and nature, and the implications for education. The elucidation and discussion of the sense of place will reveal that there are profound and superficial or, placeful and placeless, senses of place. This paper examines the possibilities of thinking nature based on this particular sense of place. The profound sense of place, in the light of Jeff Malpas, Marcel Proust, and David Henry Thoreau, can provoke in us an awareness of care about the place. If the nature can be sensed as placeful to individuals, as this paper will argue, it would be very possible for individuals to care about and be committed to the conservation of the nature.

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“…I Bachelards (1994) resonemang framträder vidare 'huset' och dess 'rum' som en meningsbärande metafor för det mänskliga där varje enskilt rum påverkar och påverkas av de som vistas i rummet: människan är i världen och världen är i människan. Hung (2010) å sin sida definierar betydelsen av ett 'hem' som en fysisk byggnad eller en mental plats med en immanent existentiell betydelse: "[h]ome is a place providing us with a fuller privacy, safety and intimacy than any other place" (s. 234). När det gäller högskolor och universitet argumenterar Roberts (2008) för att dessa platser faktiskt kan utgöra 'pedagogiska hem', där studenterna är gäster och lärarna Högre utbildning 33 värdar: "As the years go by, we [e.g.…”

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Digitaliseringens begränsande gränslöshet – om lärande, rum och hemmahörande i högre utbildning

Ekberg,

Alerby,

Elídóttir

2023

Högre utbildning

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Digitaliserade lärandemiljöer och distansöverbryggande utbildningsformer har under en längre tid präglat högre utbildning, men den drastiska digitala omställningen i samband med covid-19-pandemin innebar en situation där lärare och studenter i än högre utsträckning kom att skiljas åt i tid och rum. Under våren 2021, när studenter och lärare vid universitet och högskolor under drygt ett år hade bedrivit dessa av regering och myndigheter föreskrivna distansstudier och interagerat i och med de digitaliserade utbildningsmiljöerna, inbjöds tre studentgrupper att delge sina erfarenheter av den digitala omställningen. Studiens övergripande syfte var att synliggöra, kritiskt granska och diskutera studenters erfarenheter av den hastiga och genomgripande digitala transformationen av undervisning och lärandemiljö. Sammanlagt deltog 39 studenter, vilka studerade vid två olika universitet: ett i Sverige och ett på Island. Studenterna fick skriftligt reflektera över ett antal öppna frågeställningar i anslutning till den digitala transformation som deras utbildning genomgått med fokus på upplevelser och erfarenheter av undervisningen, lärandet och rummet. Teoretiskt utgår studien från livsvärldsfilosofi, framför allt vad gäller Martin Heideggers och Gaston Bachelards tankegods, vilka speglas mot och genom studenternas erfarenheter. Resultatanalysen mynnade ut i sju olika teman som samtliga säger något signifikant om digitaliseringen i högre utbildning. Vidare synliggör dessa teman de dikotomier och spänningsfyllda förhållanden som konstituerar rumslighet och hemhörighet i en digitaliserad utbildningskontext. Finitude unbound – on learning, space and belonging in digitalised higher education Digital learning environments and distance education have over time increasingly come to characterize higher education, and during the covid-19 pandemic the digital transition was radically accelerated. This led to an even more apparent temporal and spatial separation between teachers and students. In the spring of 2021, when students and teachers at universities and colleges had been experiencing this imposed form of online teaching and learning for just over a year, three groups of students were asked to share their experiences of the digital transition through written reflections. The overall purpose of the study was to visualize, critically examine and discuss students’ experiences of the rapid and pervasive digital transformation of the teaching and learning environment. A total of 39 students who studied at universities in Sweden and Iceland, participated. The students were asked to carry out written reflections on a number of open questions related to the digital transformation that their education had undergone, and with a certain focus on their experiences of the (class)room. Theoretically, the study is based on the philosophy of the lifeworld, mainly in accordance with the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard, which are reflected against and through the students’ experiences. The results are presented in the form of seven different themes, which together illuminate the students’ experiences of the digital transformation of teaching, learning and the (class)room in higher education. Moreover, the results also point out some of the dichotomies and tensions that constitute spatiality and belonging in an educational context.

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Journeying between Home and Nature: A Geo-Phenomenological Exploration and its Insights for Learning

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces

Differential community effects on perception and use of urban greenspaces

In Search of Ecopedagogy: Emplacing Nature In the Light of Proust and Thoreau

Digitaliseringens begränsande gränslöshet – om lärande, rum och hemmahörande i högre utbildning

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