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Title: Education


1
Educations Role in Water Management
  • Kevin J. Coyle, President
  • National Environmental Education Training
    Foundation www.neetf.org
  • Coyle_at_neetf.org

2
Water ManagementWithout Education!
  • Does education improve water management? Show
    results?
  • Will future water management be the same or
    harder without stronger education?

3
A Personal Map
  • Your place on the belief (that education can
    work) continuum?
  • Your place on the awareness (vs. education)
    continuum?

4
Outreach or Education?(or both?)
  • Awareness as a goal to itself and the knowledge
    debate
  • What awareness, by itself, can achieve (one-step
    vs. two steps)

5
Awareness Impact
  • 31 more likely to conserve water (61)
  • 10 more likely to save electricity (85)
  • 10 more likely to buy green products (50)
  • 50 more likely to avoid (somewhat) the use of
    chemicals in yard care (39)
  • 50 more likely to recycle (65)

6
Common Ingredients for Awareness Impact
  • Small changes in ongoing behaviors
  • Very little dot connecting
  • A sense of togetherness

7
Dot Connecting and Water Management
  • Leading cause of water pollution (eg.) how many
    steps?
  • Does complexity keep the public from learning new
    answers?

8
Roper/NEETF 98 -- Main source of oil pollution
in U.S. waters?
9
NEETF/Roper 1999 -- Emerging issues -- what is
the most common cause of water pollution?
10
Watershed RunoffEducation Points
  • Reduce run-off
  • Manage vegetation
  • Comprehend drainage spatial relationships
  • Understand ecological sensitivities

11
Common Sense Toward the Audience
  • Farming and dot connecting
  • Rural does not automatically mean knowledgeable
    of resources
  • Urban usually means clueless

12
Reason for Hope
  • Ropers Two Groups of Community Movers and
    Shakers
  • True Blue Greens
  • Community Influentials
  • A surprising overlap
  • Numbers and attitudes toward learning

13
Awareness vs. Education(Self Assessment)
  • Spell out causation?
  • Stories and sequence
  • Back up and cover underlying principles?
  • Definitions
  • Display spatial relationships
  • Visuals

14
Awareness vs. Education(Self Assessment -- cont.)
  • Teach application?
  • Skills
  • Enough time to absorb?
  • Offer some hands-on experience?

15
Summation
  • Water education will increase in importance as a
    part of any local strategy
  • Does the information you seek to teach require
    awareness or deeper education?
  • How good are you at a) explaining cause-effect,
    b) stepping back to cover definitions and c)
    using visuals.
  • How good are you at reading the knowledge levels
    and attitudes of your audience?
  • Are you looking toward the Influentials?
  • Can we achieve improved water management without
    stronger education?
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