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ERIC Number: EJ1179149
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Mar
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0814-0626
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NEP (Children@School): An Instrument for Measuring Environmental Attitudes in Middle Childhood
Izadpanahi, Parisa; Tucker, Richard
Australian Journal of Environmental Education, v34 n1 p61-79 Mar 2018
While there are many environmental education programs for children, few studies have used an appropriately developed scale for evaluating how such education might have on impact on children's environmental orientations. The research presented in this article adapted the NEP (New Ecological Paradigm) for Children scale to develop a new instrument for measuring children's environmental attitudes: the NEP (Children@School). The NEP (Children@School) has been developed by analysing the impact of the design of physical learning spaces on children's environmental attitudes. Factor analysis indicated that NEP (Children@School) has three dimensions: Children's Environmental Attitudes towards Human Intervention, Children's Environmental Attitudes via ESD at School, and Children's Environmental Attitudes towards Eco-Rights. We argue that NEP (Children@School) can meaningfully measure the impact of learning spaces on children's environmental attitudes. While the instrument was developed for use in Australia, it has been designed for global applicability.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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