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ClearThe role of the arts and crafts subject in education for sustainable development
Researchers conducted a qualitative study on the role of arts and crafts education in a Norwegian interdisciplinary teaching project focused on marine litter, using participatory observation and the Visual Art Based Participatory Method to analyze student outputs from grades 5-10. Results indicate that creative making processes in arts and crafts uniquely enable students to express and process emotional responses to marine plastic pollution beyond standard curriculum competence goals.
Application of the Steam Approach in Efforts to Improve 4c Skills in Elementary School Students
This education research paper examined the effectiveness of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) teaching approach for developing 21st-century skills in elementary students. This is a pedagogy paper with no direct connection to microplastics or environmental science.
School science activities with contributions from STEM practices: A study to address complex problems in elementary school classes, in the case of microplastics and their harmful effects
Researchers developed a theoretical and explanatory framework identifying which aspects of STEM education can strengthen the design of school science activities addressing complex problems such as microplastic pollution in elementary school settings. The study proposes a model for integrating STEM practices into classroom activities to build students' capacity to engage with real-world environmental challenges.
Embodied eco-embroidery
This paper is not about microplastics; it reports on a transdisciplinary arts-and-crafts embroidery project as a model for sustainable STEAM education, exploring how creative craftsmanship can foster environmental awareness in students.
Transformative STEAM Educators Developing Students’ Capabilities For Resolving Global Sustainability Crises
This paper argues that transformative STEAM education — integrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics — can develop students' capacity to address global sustainability crises including plastic pollution. The research advocates for educational approaches that go beyond conventional curricula to build environmental problem-solving skills.
Creating Creative Educational Opportunities among Engineering and Arts Students
This paper is not about microplastics — it describes an educational model that integrates engineering and arts students through design-thinking collaborative projects.
Co-Creation Art to Catalyse Competencies for a Sustainability Transition
This paper examines how co-creation art practices can help develop sustainability competencies that go beyond technical-financial problem-solving, fostering the creative thinking needed for transformative environmental action. Building public competency for systems thinking about environmental issues like plastic pollution is part of the educational foundation for broader societal change.
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context
This study qualitatively identified eight dimensions of environmental identity development in elementary school students engaged in a pollution-focused science curriculum, finding that emotional responses and personal meaning emerged as distinct dimensions not previously captured in adult environmentalist research.
STEAM Project-Based Learning Activities at the Science Museum as an Effective Training for Future Chemistry Teachers
A project-based STEAM learning methodology developed for pre-service chemistry teachers at a science museum was found effective in connecting non-formal learning environments to teacher training, enhancing engagement with scientific disciplines and pedagogical skills.
Towards a post-humanist design for educational inclusion
This participatory action research project worked with residents of a litter-polluted Belgian coastline to develop arts-based educational approaches that foster greater awareness of how plastic pollution damages shared living environments for humans and wildlife alike. While focused on pedagogy, the study underscores how community engagement and environmental literacy are important complements to scientific research on plastic pollution.
Swimming Lessons—Developing a Water Pedagogy to Examine the Entangled, Material, and Intra-Active Enmeshments Between Water, Bodies, and Knowledges
This paper describes a research-creation project using artistic and participatory methods to encourage new ways of thinking about water and environmental challenges. It applies posthuman and new materialist theory to environmental education.
Academic Literacy Supporting Sustainability for Mathematics Education—A Case: Collaborative Working as a Meaning Making for “2/3”?
This case study examines collaborative mathematics education as a tool for building academic literacy in support of sustainability goals. The paper discusses how group problem-solving around mathematical concepts can foster sustainable thinking in students.
Woven into the air– Dance as a practice towards ecologically and socially just communities
This arts education research paper examines how dance-based pedagogical methods can foster ecological awareness and justice in diverse student groups. It is a creative arts education study with no direct connection to microplastic research.
Marine plastic pollution in kindergarten as a means of engaging toddlers with STEM education and educational robotics
This paper explores using marine plastic pollution as a topic to engage preschool children with STEM education and robotics through experiential learning. Environmental topics like plastic pollution can serve as motivating contexts for early science and technology education.
VR Let My Creativity Out: Youth Creating with Immersive Learning Technologies
Researchers conducted a qualitative study with 28 grade-8 students at a Youth VR Research Camp to explore the affordances and constraints of creating with immersive technologies including MultibrushVR and FrameVR for pro-social and environmental change projects. Findings showed 94% of participants expressed interest in further VR learning, 78% agreed VR facilitated creative self-expression, and 88% reported autonomy over their learning decisions in the immersive environment.
Speculative designs in educational settings: Tension-patterns from a (mostly) European perspective
This paper is not about microplastics; it reports findings from a cross-European study of speculative design methods in higher education settings.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
A diffractive analysis of a grade 10 art project conducted at the Tygerberg Art Centre situated in Parow, Cape Town
This South African study analyzed a grade 10 art project using diffractive methodology — a posthumanist approach — to explore student engagement with environmental crisis themes. It examines how arts education can help young people grapple with large-scale environmental threats including plastic pollution.
An Argumentation Practice Based on STEAM for the Chemistry Education of Gifted
This paper describes an argumentation-based STEAM approach to chemistry education for gifted students, using real-world environmental problems as a context. It is part of a collection examining how sustainability themes can be woven into advanced science education.
Science interdisciplinary learning approach: a study interdisciplinary thinking skills and literacy environment
Researchers analyzed the impact of an interdisciplinary science learning approach on prospective teachers' ability to think across disciplines and develop environmental literacy related to sustainability. Using a quasi-experimental design, they compared students who received the interdisciplinary approach with a control group. The study found that integrating multiple scientific disciplines improved both interdisciplinary thinking skills and environmental awareness among future educators.