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El potencial educativo de la teoría de las representaciones sociales aplicada al cambio climático: una revisión crítica de la literatura

DOI

10.22550/2174-0909.4097

Abstract

Social representation theory provides a theoretical framework for comprehending how information about climate change is transformed as it moves from the scientific realm and becomes intertwined with people’s everyday lives. It also explores the relationship between this knowledge and the shared values, beliefs, and ideas within a specific social group. This article critically reviews 67 papers on social representations of climate change, identifying main contributions, methodological approaches, and future research opportunities. This review offers a broad outlook on the knowledge provided by social representation theory to understand climate change from a social-educational perspective.

Financiación | Funding

Research and Technological Innovation Project Support Programme (PAPIIT IN300422). Educar a tiempo ante la emergencia climática y la transición socioecológica [Educating in time for the climate emergency and socio-ecological transition](RESCLIM@TIEMPO) Project, Ref. PID2022-136933OB-C21, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by the ERDF Una manera de hacer Europa. Grant awarded by the National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology (CONAHCYT CVU 1004620).

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1. References of the analysed articles

1.1. General reviews

Batel, S., Castro, P., Devine-Wright, P., & Howarth, C. (2016). Developing a critical agenda to understand pro-environmental actions: Contributions from Social representations and social practices theories. WIREs Climate Change, 7(5), 727-745. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.417

González, E. (2012). La representación social del cambio climático. Una revisión internacional [The social representation of climate change. An international review]. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 17(55), 1035- 1062.

Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B., & Cinnirella, M. (2014). Human responses to climate change: Social representation, identity and socio-psychological action. Environmental Communication, 8(1), 110-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2013.846270

1.2. Educational research

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Bello, L., & Cruz, G. (2020). Profesorado universitario ante el cambio climático. Un acercamiento a través de sus representaciones sociales [University professors on climate change. An approach through their social representations]. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 25(87), 1069-1101.

Bello, L., Meira, P., & González, E. (2017). Representaciones sociales sobre cambio climático en dos grupos de estudiantes de educación secundaria de España y bachillerato de México [Social representations of climate change in a group of secondary school students in Spain and a group of high school students in Mexico]. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 22(73), 505- 532.

Calixto, R. (2010). Medio ambiente y educación ambiental: representaciones sociales de los profesores en formación [Environment and environmental education: Social representations of teachers in training]. Magis. Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación, 2(4), 401-413.

Calixto, R. (2018). El cambio climático en las representaciones sociales de los estudiantes universitarios [Climate change in university students’social representations]. Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 20(1), 122-132. https://doi.org/10.24320/redie.2018.20.1.1443

Calixto, R. (2020). Mirada compartida del cambio climático en los estudiantes de bachillerato [A shared view of climate change among high school students]. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 25(87), 987-1012.

Calixto, R. (2022). Estudiantes de bachillerato y cambio climático. Un estudio desde las representaciones sociales [High school students and climate change. A study from social representations]. Revista Electrónica Educare, 26(3), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.15359/ree.26-3.14

Calixto, R., & Terrón, E. (2018). Las emociones en las representaciones sociales del cambio climático [Climate change in university students’ social representations]. Educar em Revista, 68, 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.55684

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Escoz-Roldán, A., Gutiérrez, Pérez, J., & Meira, P. (2019b). Water and climate change, two key objectives in the Agenda 2030: Assessment of climate literacy levels and social representations in academics from three climate contexts. Water, 12(1), 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010092

Ferrari, E., Martínez, F., & Ruiz, C. (2020). La eficiencia de un MOOC de ciencia básica en español para mejorar la representación social del cambio climático [The efficiency of a basic science MOOC in Spanish to improve the social representation of climate change]. Communication & Methods, 2(2), 81. https://doi.org/10.35951/v2i2.81

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García-Vinuesa, A., Meira, P., Caride, J., & Iglesias, M. (2020). La representación del cambio climático en la universidad: valoraciones y creencias del alumnado [The representation of climate change in the university: Students’ assessments and beliefs]. Educação e Pesquisa, 46, e229768. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-4634202046229768

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Maldonado-González, A. (2022). Cambio climático en experiencias educativas de profesorado universitario [Climate change in educational experiences of university teachers]. Revista Electrónica Educare, 27(1), 1-17.

Meira, P., & Arto-Blanco, M. (2014). Representaciones del cambio climático en estudiantes universitarios en España: aportes para la educación y la comunicación [Representations of climactic change among university students in Spain: Contributions to education and communication]. Educar em Revista, 3, 15-33.

Meira, P., Gutiérrez, Pérez, J., Arto-Blanco, M., & Escoz-Roldán, A. (2018). Influence of academic education vs. common culture on the climate literacy of university students. Psyecology, 9(3), 301-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2018.1483569

Méndez-Cadena, M., Fernández, A., Cruz, A., & Bueno, P. (2020). De la representación social del cambio climático a la acción: el caso de estudiantes universitarios [From the social representation of climate change to action: The case of university students]. Revista mexicana de investigación educativa, 25(87), 1043- 1068.

Parra, E., Castillo, C., & Vallejos, M. (2013). Representaciones sociales sobre desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático en estudiantes universitarios [Social representations of sustainable development and climate change in the undergraduate students]. Perspectivas de la comunicación, 6(1), 108-119.

Porras, Y. (2016). Representaciones sociales de la crisis ambiental en futuros profesores de química [Social representations of the environmental crisis in preservice chemistry teachers]. Ciência & Educação, 22(2), 431-449.

Ramírez, Y., & González, E. (2016). Representaciones sociales del cambio climático en estudiantes de dos universidades veracruzanas [Social representations of climate change in students at two universities in Veracruz]. Revista de Investigación Educativa, 22, 1-27.

Vargas, G., Barba-Núñez, M., Carvalho, A., Vicente-Mariño, M., Arto-Blanco, M., & Meira-Cartea, P. (2018). How do students perceive and evaluate responses to climate change? The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 10(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/v10i02/1-19

1.3. Diverse contexts

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Becken, S. (2017). Evidence of a low-carbon tourism paradigm? Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25(6), 832- 850. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2016.1251446

Bertoldo, R., Guignard, S., Dias, P., & Schleyer-Lindenmann, A. (2021). Coastal inconsistencies: Living with and anticipating coastal floods risks in southern France. International Journal of disaster Risk Reduction, 64, 102521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102521

Caillaud, S., & Flick, U. (2013). New meanings for old habits? Representations of climate change in France and Germany. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 26(3), 39-72.

Cayul, O., & Quilaqueo, D. (2019). Cambio climático en Lonquimay: conocimiento científico y conocimiento local Mapuche-Pehuenche [Climate change and water: Scientific knowledge and Mapuche-Pehuenche local knowledge]. Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 37, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2019.n37-07

Chen, M. (2019). Social representations of climate change and pro-environmental behavior intentions in Taiwan. International Sociology, 34(3), 327-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580919832737

Dickinson, J., Robbins, D., Filimonau, V., Hares, A., & Mika, M. (2013). Awareness of tourism impacts on climate change and the implications for travel practice: A Polish perspective. Journal of Travel Research, 52(4), 506-519. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287513478691

Doue, C., Navarro, O., Restrepo, D., Krien, N., Rommel, D., Lemee, C., Coquet, M., Mercier, D., & Fleury-Bahi, G. (2020). The social representations of climate change: Comparison of two territories exposed to the coastal flooding risk. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 12(3), 389-405. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-11-2019-0064

Maldonado, A., González, E., & Cruz, G. (2017). Una aproximación a la representación del cambio climático en habitantes de dos cuencas del estado de Veracruz, México [Approaching the representation of climate change among inhabitants of two river basins in Veracruz State, Mexico]. Revista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital, 12(23), 149-174. https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2017.23.291

Moloney, G., Leviston, Z., Lynam, T., Price, J., Stone-Jovicich, S., & Blair, D. (2014) Using social representations theory to make sense of climate change: What scientists and nonscientists in Australia think. Ecology and Society, 19(3), 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06592-190319

Moscardo, G. (2012). Social representations of climate change: Exploring the perceived links between climate change, the drive for sustainability and tourism. In M. Vijay, & K. Wilkes (Eds.), Tourism, climate change and sustainability (pp. 24-41). Routledge.

Núñez, R. (2019). Effects of climate change on the resources of the rural ecosystem, a view from farmer perspectives. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1386, 012147. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1386/1/012147

Núñez, R., Carvajal, J., Carrero, D., Ramírez, L., & Sánchez, J. (2021). Representations of Colombian Andean farmers on climate change and mitigation and adaptation strategies. Revista de Economía e Sociología Rural, 59(2), e220439. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806- 9479.2021.220439

Schliephack, J., & Dickinson, J. (2016). Tourists’ representations of coastal managed realignment as a climate change adaptation strategy. Tourism Management, 59, 182-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2016.08.004

Wibeck, V. (2014). Social representations of climate change in Swedish lay focus groups: Local or distant, gradual or catastrophic? Public Understanding of Science, 23(2), 204-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662512462787

1.4. Media

Caillaud, S., Kalampalikis, N., & Flick, U. (2012). The social representation of the Bali climate conference in the French and German media. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 22(4), 363-378. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.1117

Callaghan, P., & Augoustinos, M. (2013). Reified versus consensual knowledge as rhetorical resources for debating climate change. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 26(3), 11-38.

Fernández, R., & Águila, J. (2015). The increase of 2° C in climate change communication in Spanish newspaper El País. Razón y Palabra, 20(1_92), 908-949.

Höijer, B. (2010). Emotional anchoring and objectification in the media reporting on climate change. Public Understanding of Science, 19(6), 717-731. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662509348863

Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B., & Koteyko, N. (2013). Contesting science by appealing to its norms: Readers discuss climate science in the Daily Mail. Science Communication, 35(3), 383-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547012459274

Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (2014). When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988. Public Understanding of Science, 23(2).

Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B., & van Vuuren, K. (2016). Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: Sceptics, scientists and politics. Public Understanding of Science, 25(7), 807-824. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515584287

Kay, N., & Gaymard, S. (2021). Climate change in the Cameroonian press: An analysis of its representations. Public Understanding of Science, 30(4), 417-433. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520976013

López, M., Florencia, M., Müller, G., Gómez, A., Staffolani, C., & Aragonés, L. (2020). Climate change communication by the local digital press in Northeastern Argentina: An ethical analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 707, 135737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135737

Olausson, U. (2011). “We’re the ones to blame”: Citizens’ representations of climate change and the role of the media. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 5(3), 281-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2011.585026

Pearce, W., & Nerlich, B. (2017). ‘An inconvenient truth’: A social representation of scientific expertise. In B. Nerlich, S. Hartley, S. Raman, & A. Smith (Eds.), Science and the politics of openness: Here be monsters (pp. 212-229). Manchester University Press.

Uzelgun, M., Lewinski, M., & Castro, P. (2016). Favorite battlegrounds of climate action: Arguing about scientific consensus, representing science-society relations. Science Communication, 38(6), 699-723. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547016676602

1.5. Responses to the CC

Banerjee, A., Schelly, C., & Halvorsen, K. (2017). Understanding public perceptions of wood-based electricity production in Wisconsin, United States: The place-based dynamics of social representations. Environmental Sociology, 3(4), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2016.1272181

Bigl, B. (2020). Stop the frack! Exploring the media’s portrayal of the social representation of an anti-fracking protest at the Baltic Sea. Environmental Communication, 14(2), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2019.1651367

Fischer, A., Peters, V., Neebe, M., Vávra, J., Kriel, A., Lapka, M., y Megyesi, B. (2012): Climate change? No, wise resource use is the issue: Social representations of energy, climate change and the future [¿Cambio climático? No, la cuestión es el uso racional de los recursos: Representaciones sociales de la energía, el cambio climático y el future]. Environmental Policy and Governance, 22(3), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1585

Im, D. H., Chung, J. B., Kim, E. S., y Moon, J. W. (2021). Public perception of geothermal power plants in Korea following the Pohang earthquake: A social representation theory study. Public understanding of science (Bristol, England), 30(6), 724-739. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211012551

Jaspal, R., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Fracking in the UK press: Threat dynamics in an unfolding debate. Public Understanding of Science, 23(3), 348-363. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662513498835

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Lynam, T. (2016). Exploring social representations of adapting to climate change using topic modeling and Bayesian networks. Ecology and Society, 21(4), 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08778-210416

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Harumi Takano-Rojas. Doctoral student in the Sustainability Science post-graduate programme at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Master’s degree in Sustainability Science, UNAM. She has published research and dissemination papers about climate change and social perceptions of climate change. Her current line of research is the study of social representations of climate change in rural communities on the southern coast of Jalisco, Mexico.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-1911

Alicia Castillo. Degree in biology from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), with a master’s degree from University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and a PhD in Environmental Education from University of Reading, United Kingdom. She is currently a permanent research associate at the UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad [Institute of Ecosystem and Sustainability Research] and belongs to the National System of Researchers (level 3) of the Mexican National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology. Her lines of work include analysing processes of generating, communicating and using socio-ecological knowledge, as well as linking the findings of scientific research to decision-making about socio-ecological systems to promote the transition toward sustainable societies.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9555-1256

Pablo Meira-Cartea. Associate professor of environmental education at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC). Special Doctorate Prize (1991-1992). María Barbeito Prize in Pedagogical Research (2009). José Manuel Esteve Prize for the best scientific paper of pedagogical content (2021). He has authored and co-authored more than 300 monographs and articles in the fields of environmental education, the social dimensions of climate change, sociology of education and social pedagogy. He has participated, and continues to participate, in 13 doctorate, post-graduate and master’s programmes in Spain and abroad. He belongs to the USC SEPA-interea research group, leading diverse projects and research contracts. He is the creator and coordinator of the Resclima Project (www.resclima.info).

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0194-7477

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social representations, social psychology, climate crisis, education, media, social action