scholarly journals PARTICIPATION IN ECOTOURISM EDUCATION, GENDER AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE AS DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-410
Author(s):  
Marcin PASEK ◽  
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Wojciech RATKOWSKI ◽  

The aim of the research was examination of pro-environmental attitudes of the students participating in optional classes of Sustainable Tourism on the background of students who did not participate in such classes. In the research participated 126 students of tourism and recreation. From among 7 factors creating Sustainable Tourism Attitude Scale (SUS-TAS), 9 statements forming the first component of the scale of Environmental Sustainability – were used. The results do not confirm more positive attitudes of students realizing Sustainable Tourism. No differences were found either, in pro-environmental attitudes between respondents from a town or from a village. According to the expectations, women are characterized by more positive ecological attitudes than men. Educational contact with sustainable tourism and place of origin had no effect on environmental attitudes.

Author(s):  
Iwona Radlińska ◽  
Marta Kożybska ◽  
Beata Karakiewicz

Discovering the role of negative attitudes in the social functioning of people with disabilities, tools were developed to measure these attitudes, of which the Multidimensional Attitude Scale of People with Disabilities (MAS) is a good one. It is particularly important to study the attitudes of people who are professionally involved in meeting the needs of people with disabilities. The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes towards people with physical disabilities among medical and health sciences students regarding gender, year of study, field of study, and place of residence. The study was conducted among 625 students in Poland with the use of the MAS-PL scale. The results obtained indicate that women display more positive attitudes towards people with disabilities than men in the cognition and behavioural domains. In the emotional domain, these attitudes were more negative than in the other domains and almost identical for both genders. The year of study, field of study, and place of residence did not differentiate students in terms of their MAS score. Since the sociodemographic variables studied do not determine a positive attitude, educational interventions to increase contact with people with disabilities should be undertaken in future research, and this factor should be investigated as an element of attitude modulation.


1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail F. Munger ◽  
Brenda H. Loyd

In education, computers and calculators historically have been associated with mathematics and the sciences, and are frequently incorporated into these areas of the curriculum. This may have serious implications for females because of the long history of reported sex differences in achievement and attitudes in mathematics and related disciplines. This study of sixty high school students examines the relationship between mathematics performance and students' attitudes toward technology (computers and calculators), and whether the relationship is similar for males and females. A practice form of the General Educational Development (GED) test was used to measure mathematics performance. Students' attitudes toward computers were assessed by the Computer Attitude Scale, and attitudes toward calculators were assessed by a 4-item measure developed by the authors. In general, students with more positive attitudes toward computers and calculators were found to perform better than students with more negative attitudes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Nordmann ◽  
Anne Clark ◽  
El Spaeth ◽  
Jill R. D. MacKay

AbstractMuch has been written about instructor attitudes towards lecture capture, particularly concerning political issues such as opt-out policies and the use of recordings by management. Additionally, the pedagogical concerns of lecturers have been extensively described and focus on the belief that recording lectures will impact on attendance and will reduce interactivity and active learning activities in lectures. However, little work has looked at the relationship between attitudes towards lecture capture and broader conceptions of learning and teaching. In this pre-registered study, we administered the Conceptions of Learning and Teaching scale and a novel lecture capture attitude scale to 159 higher education teachers. We found that appreciation of active learning predicted more positive attitudes towards lecture recordings as an educational support tool, whilst higher teacher-centred scores predicted greater concern about the negative educational impact of recordings. The effects observed were small; however, they are strong evidence against the view that it is instructors who value participatory and active learning that are opposed to lecture capture. Exploratory analyses also suggested that those who did not view recordings as an essential educational resource record fewer of their lectures, highlighting the real-world impact that attitudes can have, and further strengthening the need for staff to be provided with evidence-based guidance upon which to base their teaching practice. Data, analysis code, and the pre-registration are available athttps://osf.io/uzs3t/.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-11
Author(s):  
James Nampushi ◽  
Jedidah Nankaya

Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to survey the residents’ attitudes on the impact of tourism on Maasai Mara National Reserve and to identify critical issues and tourism development concerns of the Maasai residents associated with the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Methodology: Data for this study was collected from June-October 2015. The participants were residents, 18 and older, from three group ranches. Data were collected using single-stage cluster sampling to identify three group ranches, Koyiaki, Olkinyei, and Siana, in the Maasai Mara region. A semi-structured, open-ended questionnaire was used for face-to-face and photo-elicitation interviews of 24 respondents. Data were subsequently analysed using the Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) technique. Main Findings: The study identified six overarching themes; conservation, cultural change, community development, employment, livestock, and small business. This study found that residents perceived tourism with mixed feelings, both negative and positive. More specifically, residents living closer to the tourism destination experienced direct and tangible benefits as compared to those who live far away. Applications of this study: The results of this study are important for tourism planners, practitioners, and conservation managers in developing holistic strategies that promote sustainable tourism development in the Mara region of Kenya. Novelty/Originality of this study: The success of the tourism industry depends on the involvement of the local people. Lack of cooperation of the local communities in tourism development projects could lead to anger and mistrust, influencing perceptions of tourism and its three basic areas of benefits and costs: social, environmental, and economic. This study, for the first time, attempted to describe the resident’s attitudes towards tourism development in the Mara, results which can be used to improve the participation of local residents to ensure sustainable tourism development in destinations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 3696
Author(s):  
Ümit Çelen ◽  
İlker Kösterelioğlu ◽  
Meltem Akın Kösterelioğlu

Teachers participate in-service trainings in order to contribute their vocational development after completing graduate education and appointed as a teacher. The positive attitudes of teachers about participating in-service trainings increase the expectations about the teaching activities in their classrooms. In addition, The participation levels of teachers and the quality of in-service training activities may have a significant role on boosting teacher’s attitudes on attendance to in-service trainings. Based on this principle aim, in this research, the answers to these questions of teachers’ working in pre-primary, primary, secondary and high schools in Amasya, Tokat, Samsun and Çorum cities were sought in this study:  what are the attitudes of the teachers in participating the in-service trainings? Do the attitudes of the teachers differ significantly based on the factors of gender, professional experience, the city where they work, or their branch?  And is there any interconnection between the attitude scores of the teachers participating in the in-service trainings and their ages and years of seniority? 4) What are the expectations of the teachers about improving the effectiveness of the in-service trainings? Since this research tries to define the existing situation, the descriptive survey model was used in this research. N=37.028 teachers are the population of this research. In the research, which used a stratified cluster sampling method, n=961 teachers’ data were collected. The data of the research were collected by using the “Attitude Scale on In-Service Training (ASIST)”, which was in likert-form, and developed by Çelen, Kösterelioğlu and Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016). According to the findings, a statistically significant difference could not be found among the attitude scores of the teachers who work in four different provinces regarding participation in in-service training activities in terms of the gender, marital status and the number of the children they have. In the attitude scores of teachers, a significant difference was seen only in branch variable in favour of pre-primary teachers. Furthermore, whether the subject of the training to be given meets the needs of the education and trainings in the school, whether the in-service trainings address the teachers’ vocational and social interests; and the time they are organised and by whom they are given can be defined factors which can affect the participation levels of teachers and indirectly the attitudes regarding them.   ÖzetÖğretmenler eğitim fakültelerinde hizmet öncesi öğrenimini tamamladıktan ve öğretmen olarak atandıktan sonra mesleki gelişimlerine katkı sağlamak için hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılırlar. Öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitimlere katılmak konusunda olumlu bir tutuma sahip olmaları onların sınıflarındaki öğretim faaliyetlerinden beklenen etkiyi arttırır.  Bunun yanı sıra düzenlenen hizmet içi eğitim etkinliklerinin niteliği ve öğretmenlerin katılım düzeyi, zamanla hizmet içi eğitimlere katılma konusunda tutumlarının gelişmesinde etkili olabilmektedir. Bu nedenle bu araştırmada Amasya, Tokat, Samsun ve Çorum illerinde, okul öncesi, ilkokul, ortaokul ve liselerde görev yapan öğretmenlerin; hizmet içi eğitime katılmaya ilişkin tutumları nasıldır? Hizmet içi eğitime ilişkin tutum puanları, cinsiyet, öğretmenlik hizmet yılı, öğretmenlik yaptığı şehir, branş gibi değişkenler açısından manidar farklılık göstermekte midir? ve hizmet içi eğitimlerin etkililiğinin artmasına ilişkin beklentileri nelerdir? sorularına yanıt aranmıştır. Var olan durumu saptamak amaçlandığından araştırma, tarama modelinde nicel bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın evreninde N=37.028 öğretmen yer almaktadır. Tabakalı küme örnekleme yöntemiyle seçilen örneklem üzerinde yürütülen araştırmada n=961 öğretmenden veri toplanmıştır. Araştırmada veriler, Çelen, Kösterelioğlu ve Akın Kösterelioğlu (2016) tarafından geliştirilen ölçek ile toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinden elde edilen sonuçlara göre; öğretmenlerin hizmet içi eğitim programlarına katılma konusunda; Tokat, Çorum, Amasya ve Samsun illerinde görev yapma, cinsiyet, mesleki kıdem, medeni durum ve çocuk sahibi olma değişkenleri açısından anlamlı fark elde edilmemiştir. Öğretmenlerin tutum puanlarında sadece okul öncesi öğretmenler lehine olmak üzere branş değişkeninde manidar fark saptanmıştır. Ayrıca hizmet içi eğitime katılma konusunda eğitimlerin öğretmenlerin ihtiyaçlarına uygun olması, eğitimin ilgilerini çekmesi, eğitimin yapılacağı zamanın uygunluğu ve kim tarafından verilecek olması öğretmenlerin katılım düzeylerini arttıracak ve dolaylı olarak olumlu tutum geliştirmelerine etki edebilecek unsurlar olarak sıralanmaktadır.


1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-2) ◽  
pp. 1103-1106
Author(s):  
Betty G. Dillard ◽  
Betty L. Feather

The Oberleder Attitude Scale was reduced from 25 to 16 items and was factored into three major concepts, potential, limitations, and stereotypes. Responses of 345 in-home care aides indicated that the 345 aides held positive attitudes toward their elderly patients.


2020 ◽  
pp. 109634802098012
Author(s):  
Francisco Orgaz-Agüera ◽  
Mario Castellanos-Verdugo ◽  
José Alberto Acosta Guzmán ◽  
Mar Cobeña ◽  
María de los Ángeles Oviedo-García

Community attachment is a key factor for both the perceptions and the attitudes of residents including the tourism activities within it. Besides, residents’ participation in the tourism development process influences their support for the development of tourism activities. Finally, the environmental attitudes of residents are essential for the sustainability of natural resources. A total of 722 structured questionnaires to residents of the city of Santiago de los Caballeros gathered information about community attachment, environmental activity, support for tourism, perceptions, and involvement toward the natural resources of the Yaque del Norte River (the longest of the Dominican Republic). The results, using partial least squares, showed the relevant relations between the variables researched and offer a new framework on which to reflect, for the assessment of the relations between community attachment and support for sustainable tourism, together with the involvement and the attitudes of the community.


2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (OCE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Corish ◽  
Kirstie McAdoo ◽  
Myriam Alhilou

Abstract‘Food sustainability’ is now acknowledged as integral to the achievement of food security, a healthy community and protection of the environment. Understanding consumers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards food sustainability is poorly understood in Ireland. This study aimed to explore the knowledge and attitudes towards food sustainability among visitors to an Irish restaurant, known to prepare foods in a sustainable way. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 426 visitors at the Overends Kitchen, Airfield Estate, Dublin, Ireland using a short questionnaire informed by previously collected data on Irish consumers’ attitudes towards food purchasing and a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK) questionnaire. Information on demographics, food choice motives, food preferences, basic nutritional knowledge, awareness and attitudes toward food sustainability was obtained. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (IBM, v23, Chicago, Ill, USA). Quality (98%) and health (92%) were the most important motives for food choice. Females (P = 0.001) and older (P = 0.029) participants had greater interest in health as a motivating factor for food choice compared to males and those who were younger. Free-range (eggs) and fresh vegetables and fish were most frequently purchased. Poor knowledge of recommendations about saturated fat, and daily fruit and vegetables intakes was demonstrated though this was better in female (P = 0.005) and younger (P = 0.007) participants. Participants demonstrated positive attitudes towards food sustainability and over half (57%) were aware of GLAS principles (Go with the seasons, Local for produce, Avoid food waste, Sustainably produced) although only 37% reported that these principles influence their dietary choices. Misinformation about the environmental sustainability and nutritional value of farmed vs. organic or wild fish and fresh vs. frozen vegetables was apparent. This research provides some understanding of Irish consumers' knowledge and attitudes towards food sustainability. The need to enhance understanding of how diets can be made more sustainable is clear.


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