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Title: | Can Science Education Help to Reduce Global Warming?: An International Study of the Links between Students' Beliefs and their Willingness to Act | Contributor(s): | Rodriguez, Manuel (author); Boyes, Eddie (author); Ambusaidi, Abdullah (author); Cheong, I Poh-Ai (author); Hye-Gyoung, Yoon (author); Mijung, Kim (author); Stanisstreet, Martin (author); Skamp, Keith (author); Malandrakis, Georgios (author); Fortner, Roseanne (author); Kilinc, Ahmet (author); Taylor, Neil (author) ; Chhokar, Kiran (author); Dua, Shweta (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17839 | Abstract: | In this period of environmental degradation it is essential to assist people to change their attitudes, motives, skills and behaviors towards more sustainable ones. Education is one of the tools that might be expected to contribute towards achieving that goal. Unfortunately, however, few educational programs have had substantial impacts on people's actions for environment involvement (Jakobsson, Mäkitalo, and Säljö, 2009). One of the factors that underlie the 'gap' between knowledge and action (Kollmus and Ageyman, 2002) seems to be the disparity between general pro-environmental attitudes and values, and the specific motives and intentions needed to undertake the actions. So, in our research program we have examined links between beliefs about the usefulness of specific actions and the willingness to undertake those concrete actions. Questionnaires were completed by 12,627 school students in 11 countries, including Spain. Here we concentrate on students' views about modifying their methods of personal transport to reduce global warming. The relationships between students' Believed Usefulness of Action and their Degree of Willingness to Act were quantified by constructing indices to measure the extent to which enhancing a person's belief in the effectiveness of an action might increase their willingness to undertake it. Comparison of the values of this index for different actions and across different countries identifies those actions for which education is likely to produce behavior change. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The International Journal of Science in Society, v.2, p. 89-100 | Publisher: | Common Ground Research Networks | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1836-6236 1836-6244 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 139999 Education not elsewhere classified 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 939999 Education and Training not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://ijy.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.187/prod.132 |
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