Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects

Braun, Tina; Cottrell, Richard S.; Dierkes, Paul Wilhelm

doi:10.1080/13504622.2017.1343279

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“…Therefore, it would be interesting and useful to analyze how the socioeconomic status or education of teenagers' parents determine their group affiliation. Further Braun, Cottrell, and Dierkes (2018) have shown that also the teenagers' cultural background influences their environmental attitudes, knowledge and behavior. Some studies have also shown a link between positive nature experiences in childhood and a pro-environmental attitude (Cheng & Monroe, 2012), so this might also be a factor influencing teenagers' climate change awareness and group.…”

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How many young generations are there? – A typology of teenagers’ climate change awareness in Germany and Austria

Kuthe

Keller

Körfgen

et al. 2019

The Journal of Environmental Education

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Under the premise that the young generation of teenagers cannot be considered to be uniform, this study identified groups of teenagers based on their level of climate change awareness. Questionnaires answered by 760 teenagers (13-16 years old) from Germany and Austria were analyzed using a hierarchical cluster analysis. The teenagers were assigned to four groups that differed as to their cognitive, affective and conative aspects of climate change awareness. Based on the empirical results, the authors argue that there are different subgroups of young people in terms of climate change awareness, which climate change education should take into consideration.

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confidence: 99%

How many young generations are there? – A typology of teenagers’ climate change awareness in Germany and Austria

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Keller

Körfgen

et al. 2019

The Journal of Environmental Education

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“…The main goal of such an educational reform is to change the school itself for promoting sustainability and helping today students to follow sustainable practices in their everyday life. Indeed, this educational reform is the tool for achieving sustainable development and instilling energy behavior into all levels of educational operation: teaching, social/organizational, and technical/financial [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. Educational activities play a dominant role to educate students on how to take initiatives, set goals, make decisions, handle information data, and be engaged in creative argumentation and productive criticism [67].…”

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Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

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“…First, as is the case of a suite of most aerial insectivores in the Family Hirundinidae (Nebel et al , Fraser et al ), eastern purple martin populations are declining rangewide among 28 states and Canadian provinces (1966–2014; −1.1%/yr [4.3, −0.6]; Sauer et al ). Second, current housing is mainly provided by older generations, and recent data suggest decreasing interest in active participation in natural resources management among younger generations and new human demographics, including minorities (Taylor , Lopez et al ), individuals <40 years old (Ray ), and individuals who are more urban‐centric (Braun et al ). Project MartinWatch (PMW), a citizen science project overseen by the Purple Martin Conservation Association (PMCA; Erie, PA, USA), provides a database of nest check records from “landlords” across eastern North America that monitor nesting activity in provisioned housing for eastern purple martins.…”

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Nest survival data confirm managed housing is an important component to the conservation of the eastern purple martin

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The purple martin (Progne subis) is entrenched in a consistent, long-term decline. This is especially true for the subspecies east of the Rocky Mountains (P. s. subis), which today nests almost exclusively in provisioned housing (birdhouses and hollow gourds) provided by citizen scientists. One benefit of provisioned housing is reduced nest-site competition with nonnative European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) and house sparrows (Passer domesticus) when managed by citizen scientists. Increased competition for nest sites and subsequently lower productivity due to declining management of available housing is speculated to be primary factors for their long-term declines. To assess whether managed housing promoted high nestsurvival metrics, we used a 19-year database (1995-2013) of nest-check records provided by Project MartinWatch, a citizen science program of the Purple Martin Conservation Association. We compared nest ecology metrics and survival among housing and entrance-hole type to assess if specific provisioned housing or entrance-hole type increased clutch size or number of chicks fledged. Using 72,627 nests across 8 regions monitored by citizen scientists, our major findings were 1) nest survival was >85% among 8 regions in the eastern United States and Canada; and 2) clutch size and number of fledglings produced were slightly larger in natural and artificial gourds with entrances designed to exclude European starlings; but 3) housing and entrance-hole types were not important predictors of nest survival and clutch size had a small, inverse relationship with daily nest survival (b Clutch ¼ À0.002). Our results suggest managed housing is an important conservation tool based on previously undocumented high nest survival across the numerous artificial housing options. Our findings encourage the use of artificial and natural gourds with European starling-resistant entrance holes, but promotion of managed artificial housing of any type in North America is beneficial and strongly encouraged. Ó

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Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects

Cited by 102 publications

References 81 publications

How many young generations are there? – A typology of teenagers’ climate change awareness in Germany and Austria

How many young generations are there? – A typology of teenagers’ climate change awareness in Germany and Austria

Environmental Behavior of Secondary Education Students: A Case Study at Central Greece

Nest survival data confirm managed housing is an important component to the conservation of the eastern purple martin

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