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Boyes, Eddie; Stanisstreet, Martin; Skamp, Keith; Rodriguez, Manuel; Malandrakis, Georgios; Fortner, Rosanne W.; Kilinc, Ahmet; Taylor, Neil; Chhokar, Kiran; Dua, Shweta; Ambusaidi, Abdullah; Cheong, Irene Poh-Ai; Kim, Mijung; Yoon, Hye-Gyoung – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
Previous studies have shown that there is what has been called a "gap" between environmental knowledge and a willingness to act in a pro-environmental manner. For the individual, this gap is probably the result of the huge complexity of factors that affect behaviour. The way in which this "gap" is sometimes identified in the…
Descriptors: Transportation, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Climate
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Ambusaidi, Abdullah; Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin; Taylor, Neil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
A 44-item questionnaire was designed to determine students' views about how useful various "specific" actions might be in helping to reduce global warming, their willingness to undertake these various actions and the extent to which these two might be related. The instrument was administered to students in Grades 6 to 12 (N = 1532) from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Environmental Standards
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Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin; Yeung, Stephen Pui-ming – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
This paper examines the knowledge and understanding of Hong Kong secondary school students about the composition of unpolluted and polluted air, and the nature and effects of air pollutants. A number of misconceptions are highlighted, including the common belief amongst younger students that oxygen was more common in unpolluted air than nitrogen.…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Foreign Countries, Pollution, Misconceptions