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Environmental education
About: Environmental education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14551 publications have been published within this topic receiving 211056 citations. The topic is also known as: environmental learning.
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01 Mar 1996
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TL;DR: The development of an international Master's degree program named “Pervasive computing and communications for sustainable development” (PERCCOM) by an international consortium is described, which aimed to combine advanced ICT with environmental, economic, and social awareness.
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TL;DR: The authors used in-depth interviews to explore the understanding of a non-random sample of 12 practising primary school teachers in four areas: biodiversity, the carbon cycle, ozone and global warming.
Abstract: In the light of an increased emphasis on environmental education in revisions of the National Curriculum to be introduced in September 2000, this study used in-depth interviews to explore the understanding of a non-random sample of 12 practising primary school teachers in four areas: biodiversity, the carbon cycle, ozone and global warming. A methodological innovation in this research was the prior identification of basic scientific explanations of each area for a primary teachers, and the use of these as benchmarks for judging understanding. The study was able to identify those underpinning science concepts which were well understood, and those which were not so well understood. Some missing concepts and misconceptions are also reported. Although the findings cannot be generalised to all primary teachers, the fairly strong science backgrounds of eight teachers in the sample suggest that some of the difficulties reported may be found more widely. It is suggested that both the basic explanations and the di...
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TL;DR: This paper found that although schooling and academic knowledge bear a negative association with local knowledge, the magnitude is low, probably because schooling was partially contextualized, which might help avoid that the provision of universal education comes at the cost of humanity's cultural diversity.
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TL;DR: In this article, the environmental attitudes of 958 senior secondary students, from a stratified sample across 32 country and metropolitan schools, aged 15-18 years, were measured using a modified version of the Questionnaire of Environmental Beliefs.
Abstract: The environmental attitudes of 958 senior secondary students, from a stratified sample across 32 country and metropolitan schools, aged 15–18 years, were measured using a modified version of Herrera’s (1992) Journal of applied social psychology 22(8), 657–676. Questionnaire of Environmental Beliefs. Principal components analysis extracted seven factors including two independent components of environmental optimism and environmental pessimism. The first factor, environmental concern, accounted for nearly one-quarter of the variance. The analysis suggests that environmental opinion may not be a homogeneous construct, but is quite limited in heterogeneity. Generally students from both rural and urban regions were quite concerned, yet pessimistic, about environmental issues. Adolescent women were less optimistic and less supportive of science solutions for environmental problems than adolescent men, and students with lower socioeconomic status tended to be more supportive of environmental exploitation and science solutions than others. Environmental opinion also varied across different types of schools. There was some suggestion that environmental pessimism may be related to environmental education received at school, and that vegetarianism may be associated with strong environmental opinions. Both of these propositions require further research.
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