Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects
Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects
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DOI：
10.1080/13504622.2017.1343279
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Dierkes, Paul
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作者：
Braun, Tina;Cottrell, Richard;Dierkes, Paul
本研究采用独特的多因素、大规模设计，调查在四个不同国家接受教育的中小学生的基线差异以及单一户外教育项目对环境态度、知识和行为的影响。统计建模方法采用居住国、年龄、国籍、抽样年份、性别和城市/农村居住地作为预测变量。基线分数解释了一些预测因素，但居住国和城乡差异出现的态度，知识和行为的积极变化的最一致的解释变量。考虑到居住变量中包含的政治，社会，自然和文化数据的联系，我们讨论了可能影响环境素养和环境责任行为的复杂驱动因素网络。户外教育项目价值的空间变化也进行了讨论。
This study employs a uniquely multi-factorial, large-scale design to investigate baseline differences and the effects of a singular outdoor educational program on environmental attitudes, knowledge and behavior among primary and secondary school students educated in four different countries. Statistical modelling approaches employed country of residence, age, nationality, sampling year, gender and urban/rural habitation as predictor variables. Baseline scores were explained by a number of predictors but country of residence and rural-urban differences appeared as the most consistent explanatory variable for positive changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior. Given the nexus of political, social, natural and cultural data contained within the residence variable, we discuss the complex web of drivers that may influence environmental literacy and environmentally responsible behavior. Spatial variation in the value of outdoor education programs is also discussed.