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Keinonen, Tuula; Palmberg, Irmeli; Kukkonen, Jari; Yli-Panula, Eija; Persson, Christel; Vilkonis, Rytis – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
This study aims to find higher education students' perceptions about environmental issues and how the perceptions are related to perceptions of media coverage. This study investigates higher education students' perceptions of the seriousness of environmental issues and their relation to perceptions of media coverage. Higher education students…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Pollution
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Burke, Ann M. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2017
This study investigated changes in high school students' awareness of environmental issues and their intent to be involved with local environmental groups after attendance at an environmental fair that exposed them to local environmental groups. A comparison of prefair and postfair surveys given to students indicated a highly significant increase…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Activism
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Yeh, Fan-Yu; Tran, Ngoc-Huy; Hung, Shih Hsun; Huang, Chin-Fei – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
This study integrated environmental issues as the initial problem to explore the process of problem-solving of high school students and proposes the concept of environmental problem-solving (EPS) to probe the interaction between high school students' scientific performance and EPS strategies. There were 139 high school students in Taiwan who…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, High School Students, Knowledge Level, Environment
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Wilks, Leigh; Harris, Neil – Environmental Education Research, 2016
Objective: Young people's environmental views are typically conflicted, with little recognition of the links between environmental issues or between environmental responsibility and action. The purpose of this study was to clarify whether young people's understanding of the environment is in conflict or whether they are forming interconnections…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Social Responsibility, Attitude Measures
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Owusu, Godfred Matthew Yaw; Ossei Kwakye, Teddy; Welbeck, Edem Emerald; Ofori, Charles Gyamfi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This study examines the multidimensionality of the environmental literacy concept among university business students in Ghana. The study also investigates the relationship between students' interests in environmental issues and knowledge levels of environment and assesses how these two constructs influence students overall environmental…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis
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Tran, Van Dat – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2022
In recent years, researchers have increasingly focused on dimensions of the school environment because of their effects on teachers' outcomes such as teaching efficacy, job satisfaction, and commitment. However, current literature illustrates that not many studies on different aspects regarding schools' environmental issues have been conducted in…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Educational Environment, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Keinonen, Tuula; Yli-Panula, Eija; Svens, Maria; Vilkonis, Rytis; Persson, Christel; Palmberg, Irmeli – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2014
The media, as a source of information, is supposed to have a significant role in effecting people's environmental knowledge and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to find students' perceptions of environmental issues as presented in the media and how students in Finland, Lithuania and Sweden used these media sources in the matters related to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Social Media, Mass Media Use
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Martinis, Aristotelis; Kabassi, Katerina; Dimitriadou, Constantina; Karris, Georgios – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
This study presents the results of a questionnaire-based survey, conducted in primary and secondary public schools of Zakynthos Island during 2013, referring to environmental awareness as well as pupils' perceptions and attitudes on specific environmental issues. The main aim of the study was to determine the knowledge and awareness that local…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Natural Resources, Questionnaires, Student Surveys
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Alvarez-García, Olaya; Sureda-Negre, Jaume; Comas-Forgas, Rubén – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: In this paper, the results of an investigation aimed at analysing and comparing the environmental competences of future teachers undergoing training in two universities are presented. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the difference in the acquisition of environmental competences amongst two groups of students enrolled in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Competence, Preservice Teachers
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Vergou, Asimina; Willison, Julia – Environmental Education Research, 2016
Botanic gardens have been evolving, responding to the changing needs of society, from their outset as medicinal gardens of monasteries and university gardens to more recently as organizations that contribute to the conservation of plant genetic resources. Considering that social and environmental issues are deeply intertwined and cannot be tackled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gardening, Plants (Botany), Recreational Facilities
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Olsson, Daniel; Gericke, Niklas – Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
Previous research has shown that interest in and concern about environmental issues tends to decrease in adolescence, but less is known about adolescents' broader consciousness of sustainable development, also including economic and social issues. This study investigates students' sustainability consciousness in the transition to adolescence. This…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
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Hermans, Mikaela; Korhonen, Johan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine Finnish ninth graders' attitudes towards the consequences of climate change, their views on climate change mitigation and the impact of a set of selected predictors on their willingness to act in climate change mitigation. Students (N = 549) from 11 secondary schools participated in the questionnaire-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Student Attitudes
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Al-Dajeh, Hesham I. – College Student Journal, 2012
This study assesses the environmental literacy (knowledge, attitudes, and concerns) of pre-vocational education teachers. A total of 124 teachers participated in the study. Data was collected through a closed ended questionnaire. Questionnaire validity was established by content and a Cranach's alpha coefficient used to determine reliability. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Student Attitudes, Vocational Education, Environmental Education
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Tu, Jui-Che; Tu, Ya-Wen; Jhangr, Yun-Sian – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
During the last decade, environmental issues have become a global concern. According to a report by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, more than 95% of consumers prioritize purchasing green products. Therefore, enterprises should consider environmental concerns in their operational strategies. This study identified how enterprises…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Success, Conservation (Environment), Business
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Ertürk Kara, Gözde; Aydos, E. Hande; Aydin, Özge – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2015
The purpose of this study is to provide the transform of attitudes into behavior of 60-72 month of age children continued early childhood education toward environmental issues. Collaborative action research method of qualitative design was used. The whole participants of the study were 60-72 months of age children who were attending in an early…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Conservation (Environment), Foreign Countries, Interviews
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