Effects of Pre- and Posttrip Activities Associated With a Residential Environmental Education Experience on Students' Attitudes Toward the Environment

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Smith-Sebasto ◽  
Lisa Cavern
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
shinta mailina

Environmental education aims to attract people's interest in paying attention toenvironmental functions, how to manage the environment and protect the environment.Developing knowledge about the importance of the environment is the first step in the formationof an environmentally friendly society. Through knowledge and awareness, positive values andattitudes will emerge to make lifestyle adjustments that will reduce the burden on the environment(Ramadhan et al 2019). Sukma & Azrianti (2020) said that character education is very importantto be instilled since students are still in elementary school. The diversity of characters and habitsof students at school who come from different family backgrounds is very influential and can evencause bad things in the character of the child. Several cases state that students' attitudes areinfluenced by the surrounding environment or family environment, in addition, the finding of somestudents who often experience confusion in translating their local language into Indonesian is aform that the environment greatly affects Indonesian language learning (Ikhlasani & Ramadhan2021). Therefore, it is important to develop knowledge about the environment, environmentalawareness and behavior change towards the environment (Ramadhan et al, 2019).


Author(s):  
Francisco Hinojo Lucena ◽  
Inmaculada Aznar Díaz ◽  
María Cáceres Reche ◽  
Juan Trujillo Torres ◽  
Gerardo Gómez García

Pollution is shown as the environmental challenge, which has the greatest impact on global climate change. Faced with this situation, numerous environmental summits agree on the fact that Environmental Education needs to be implemented within the different disciplines and educational institutions. Therefore, Further Education must foster the research and management of environmental education with the aim of developing responsible citizens with sustainable attitudes. Based on this idea, this paper aimed to analyse the attitudes in Further Education students towards different situations and habits linked to pollution, as well as some of its varied typologies (chemical pollution, acoustic pollution and management of solid urban waste and rubbish). To achieve this, a sample of 307 students from different degrees of Preschool and Primary Education was included, using a questionnaire as a measuring instrument. The methodology of the study was both descriptive, through the analysis of its measures, and inferential, with the preparation of a confirmatory conceptual model through the structural equation model (SEM). Results revealed that students are highly concerned about the different situations proposed, and that the predictive model forges strong correlations between the four variables of the study. Hence, the study focused on the idea of trying to enhance environmental awareness in the groups of students from different educational phases, to subsequently foster the implementation of specific actions aimed at preserving and conserving natural resources, and to guide society towards sustainable development.


Author(s):  
Timothy Mandila Chikati

This study investigated implementation of integrated environmental education in the secondary school curriculum for managing environmental degradation in Machakos Sub-County. The study was thus informed by Fullan’s theory of educational change (2007). The theory views the implementation of IEE programme through lenses of four independent variables identified as need; clarity; complexity; quality and practicality on the one hand and teachers’ and students’ levels of environmental awareness, knowledge, skills, attitudes and participation as dependent variables on the other hand. These variables network with local factors and external factors as intervening variables to determine the IEE implementation process. The study employed cross-section survey design under the quantitative approach. Probability sampling designs were used to select participants for the study. The target population of this study was public secondary schools, teachers and form 4 students from Machakos Sub-County. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were employed in sampling secondary schools, teachers and students.  Questionnaires were used for data collection. Quantitative data were analysed using simple descriptive statistics. Overall study findings demonstrated that both teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards integrated environmental education in the secondary school curriculum were fairly positive though not adequate enough for effective implementation of IEE in the school curriculum hence, the unyielding environmental degradation in Machakos Sub-County. The study recommended that The Ministry of Education and the relevant urgencies such as KICD, DQAS and KNEC work jointly with school managers to draw an action plan to reinforce and intensify teachers’ and students’ levels of environmental attitudes through pre-service and in-service training, workshops and seminars on contemporary environmental issues. It is also recommended that studies are undertaken to understand those impediments that impede change in teachers’ and students’ environmental attitudes so that useful and practical interventions can be identified.


HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 504D-504
Author(s):  
Sonja M. Skelly ◽  
J.M. Zajicek

Project GREEN (Garden Resources for Environmental Education Now!) is an educational tool to assist in the teaching of environmental education at the elementary school level. Project GREEN is different from many current educational practices because its major goal is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education by infusing activities centered around a hands-on tool, “the garden.” The main goal of this project included evaluating whether students participating in Project GREEN were developing positive environmental attitudes. Three schools throughout Texas participated in the study. Approximately 200 students were evaluated; 100 participants served as the experimental group and 100 non-participants served as the control group. Students were evaluated using the Children's Environmental Response Inventory (CERI), which measures students' attitudes about nature and human dominance over nature. This questionnaire also contained a section for biographical information. Comparisons were made between the experimental and control groups, as well as between gender, age, ethnicity, and time in the garden. Results examine the relationship between the garden program and environmental attitudes for both control and experimental groups.


Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Dalmoro ◽  
Suelen Assunção Santos

Resumo: ‘Experiência’ é entendida como aquilo que nos passa, que nos acontece e que nos toca. Em vista disso, esse relato de experiência toma o sentido de relato de um estudo que nos tocou, nos aconteceu e nos deixou vestígios. Assim sendo, a narrativa que segue refere-se a um relato de experiência sobre um estudo de Mestrado integrado à Linha de Pesquisa do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências: Química da Vida e Saúde – UFRGS, que investiga como os efeitos dos discursos e das práticas sociais processadas em diferentes instâncias atuam na produção de verdades e de sujeitos, tendo como base a perspectiva pós-estruturalista. O estudo teve como objetivo examinar noções pertinentes à filosofia de Michel Foucault que servissem como ferramentas analíticas para lançar novos olhares sobre a Educação Ambiental. O propósito desse texto é apresentar como transcorreu o encontro entre a referida educação e a noção de poder ubuesco, mencionado pelo autor apenas nas duas primeiras aulas que integralizam a obra Os Anormais (1974-1975). Por conta deste encontro, tendo como base o método da Cartografia, em que se buscou apresentar os mapas dos sentidos que a categoria do ubuesco alcançou, obteve-se como resultado a elaboração e a submissão de um artigo no qual a noção de poder ubuesco foi operada com o contexto da crise ambiental vigente. O presente relato abordará a experiência percorrida até a escrita do artigo submetido, apresentando os principais passos do percurso realizado.Palavras-chave: Educação Ambiental. Experiência. Poder ubuesco. Pós-estruturalista. NOTES ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF EXPERIENCE: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND UBUESCO POWER Abstract: Experience is understood as what passes us, happens to us, and touches us. In view of this, this experience report takes the sense of a report of a study that touched us, happened to us and left traces in us. Therefore, the following narrative refers to an experience report about a master’s degree study embedded to the Research line of the Postgraduate studies Program in Education in Sciences: Chemistry of Life and Health – UFRGS, that investigates how the effects of the speeches and social practices processed in different instances act in the production of truths and subjects, having as base the poststructuralist perspective. The study had as objective to examine notions pertinent to the Michel Foucault’s philosophy that worked as analytical tools to give new looks about Environmental Education. The purpose of this text is to present how happened the meeting between the referred education and the notion of ubuesque power, mentioned by the author only in the two first classes that integrate the work Abnormal (1974-1975). On account of this meeting, having as base the Cartography method, in which it was sought to present the maps of senses that the ubuesque category reached, it was obtained as result the elaboration and submission of a paper in which the notion of ubuesque power was operated with the context of the present environmental crisis. This report will approach the experience traveled until the writing of the submitted paper, presenting the main steps of the accomplished course.Keywords: Environmental Education. Experience. Ubuesque Power. Poststructuralist.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1335-1355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Ardoin ◽  
Maria L. DiGiano ◽  
Kathleen O’Connor ◽  
Timothy E. Podkul

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Ardoin ◽  
Maria DiGiano ◽  
Kathleen O'Connor ◽  
Nicole Holthuis

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