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Ninth Graders and Climate Change: Attitudes towards Consequences, Views on Mitigation, and Predictors of Willingness to Act
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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
Primary Teacher Educators' Perception of Desired and Achieved Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Geography Education in Primary Teacher Training
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Blankman, Marian; van der Schee, Joop; Volman, Monique; Boogaard, Marianne – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted among primary geography teacher educators. The research examines the perceptions of educators of primary teacher students' desired and achieved levels of substantial knowledge, syntactic knowledge, and beliefs about the subject of geography. The findings indicate that primary teacher educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Omani Students' Views about Global Warming: Beliefs about Actions and Willingness to Act
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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
Environmental Knowledge, Attitudes and Actions of Bavarian (Southern Germany) and Asturian (Northern Spain) Adolescents
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Zecha, Stefanie – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
This empirical study investigates the environmental awareness of school children in Bavaria and Asturias. The analysis was based on a data-set (Bavaria, 900 students; Asturias, 182 students) that was collected in spring 2007. Students aged between 14 and 15 years responded to a paper-and-pencil questionnaire. The theoretical concept follows the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Perception of Environmental Problems among Pre-School Children in Poland
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Grodzieska-Jurczak, Malgorzata; Stepska, Anna; Nieszporek, Katarzyna; Bryda, Grzegorz – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
This study's objective was to examine attitudes toward the environment, and to determine the level of environmental knowledge among pre-school children and their parents. This study covered 686 parents and 674 six-year-olds from 30 pre-schools from the Malopolskie, Mazowieckie and Warmiesko-Mazurskie Provinces. The questionnaire used in the…
Descriptors: Place of Residence, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Foreign Countries
A Statistical Analysis of Children's Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes in Turkey
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Alp, Elvan; Ertepinar, Hamide; Tekkaya, Ceren; Yilmaz, Ayhan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2006
The aim of this study was three-fold: (1) to determine 6th, 8th and 10th grade students' environmental knowledge and attitudes in Turkey; (2) to investigate the effect of the grade level and gender on students' environmental knowledge and attitudes; (3) to explore how environmentally responsible behaviour is related to environmental knowledge,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Multiple Regression Analysis, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries