Climate Change? Who Knows? A Comparison of Secondary Students and Pre-service Teachers

A Systematic Review of the Research on the Knowledge and Skills of Australian Preservice Teachers

“…Effeney & Davis (2013) 3 rd yrs more knowledgeable than 1 st yrs. Global warming Boon (2010) Those preparing to be science or SOSE teachers were similar to non-specialist teachers Students with special needs Anderson et al (2012) No difference between PSTs with and without experience of ADHD Bain et al (2009) Students who learned through co-operative learning did better than those who learned through peer-assisted learning or who studied alone. Berger, et al (2015) Prior training in self-injury had no effect.…”

Pre-Service Teachers and Climate Change: A Stalemate?

“…Knowledge based on authentic mastery experiences (Bandura, 1997) has a twofold function for PSTs. Apart from helping to guide their personal behaviour it is also one the strongest predictors of PSTs' teaching self-efficacy; their confidence for approaching tasks in the classroom effectively and successfully, including curriculum material development (Poulou, 2007;O'Neil & Stephenson, 2012).…”

“…Little research has been conducted to clarify this. Two studies utilising a survey design reported public media and school education as common knowledge sources (Boon, 2010;Ikonomidis et al, 2012). It is not yet clear however, how various knowledge sources relate to PSTs' knowledge of climate change science.…”

“…It has been reported that knowledge and understanding of climate change was unacceptably low in preservice teachers (PSTs) in Australia, including those secondary specialists citing science and environmental studies as their focus of study (Boon, 2010;Groves & Pugh, 1999) with similar findings demonstrated in PSTs in Canada (Puk & Stibbards, 2012) and the US (for example, Lambert & Bleicher, 2013). Such problematic gaps in knowledge and understanding are not restricted to PSTs.…”

Assessment of pre-service teachers’ knowledge of the impact of livestock production on global warming: a comparative study between Portugal and Spain

“…A study comparing secondary students and pre-service teachers also found a very low level of scientific understanding about global warming in both groups. The pre-service teachers were better able to identify the main GHG, but no direct questions concerning livestock production were included in this survey [31].…”