Teach it to sustain it! Environmental attitudes of Hungarian teacher training students in Serbia

Major, Lenke; Namestovski, Žolt; Hõrak, Rita; Bagány, Ágnes; Krekić, Valéria Pintér

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.163

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“…Perhaps surprisingly, students with most opportunities to take an elective module in environmental protection had significantly less support for SWM. Contrary to our results, previous studies have demonstrated that environmental education can effectively promote students’ understanding of the concept of sustainability and issues related to wildlife conservation [ 35 , 36 ]. Our results suggest that current electives on conservation in Chinese universities and three-year colleges may be less focused on SWM principles than in the past [ 9 ] and taken by students who are more interested in animal rights and love of nature.…”

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Current Societal Views about Sustainable Wildlife Management and Conservation: A Survey of College Students in China

Miao

Wang

Chen

et al. 2020

Animals

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Wildlife conservation and management has become a very complex public policy issue in China as concerns over on animal welfare and empathy for animals have grown. Science-based conservation strategies that are oriented toward sustainable wildlife management (SWM) are under threat as these new attitudes and values emerge and take hold. This study accesses the attitudes of college students towards SWM and wildlife conservation, and investigates demographic characteristics influencing their attitudes in China, a country that is traditionally associated with consumptive use of wildlife and SWM, but where new ideas about wildlife conservation are emerging. From October 2018 to April 2019, nine universities (including “Double First-Class” universities, first-tier universities, second-tier universities), and four three-year colleges in China were selected as survey locations, and face-to-face interviews were conducted with 1991 students. A total of 1977 questionnaires were recovered, of which 1739 were valid, with a completion rate of 88%. A Likert seven-point scale method was used to score students’ attitudes, and a classification and regression tree (CART) was used to analyze whether their attitudes were affected by their demographic characteristics. The results show that although students are broadly supportive of the theory of SWM, some are deeply antagonistic about on SWM on issues that arouse strong emotions such as “Animal Welfare and Rights” and “Trophy Hunting”. Demographic characteristics of students affect their degree of support for the SWM with support for SWM lower among vegetarians, freshmen, and students who have taken environmental protection electives. This research suggests that the theory of SWM requires to be refreshed and adapted to appeal to the younger generation of Chinese students, with SWM principles integrated into the environmental education programs of universities and three-year colleges. More attention should also be attached to media publicity by the government about wildlife conservation so as to enhance awareness of the need for SWM.

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Current Societal Views about Sustainable Wildlife Management and Conservation: A Survey of College Students in China

Miao

Wang

Chen

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“…Also, teachers need to live in an environmentally conscious way and to represent the standpoint of sustainable development and its practice, to motivate the students. A curriculum that incorporates natural science and methodological elements contributes to the successful development of positive attitudes toward sustainability, as well as the formation of adequate skills and key competencies (Stronck, 2005;Major et al, 2017).…”

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Mobile Science Project: Promoting Active Methodologies through Environmental Workshops in Schools

Cubas¹,

Dutra²,

Moecke³

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The main objective of this project is to investigate how active methodologies, based on workshops with environmental themes, can help high school students to learn subject matter in the area of the chemistry, physics and mathematics sciences and enhance their awareness of the importance of the preservation of the planet. In this study,13 schools were visited in 4 years. During this time they participated in workshops that involved the use of residues to produce new materials, to provide environmental education regarding the reuse of waste and concepts embedded in the chemistry, physics and mathematics sciences. The results highlight that most of the students (98%) found the Mobile Science project interesting, 97% enjoyed participating in the workshops. Regarding the content of the workshops, 92% of the students answered positively; that is, the workshops were related and helped to understand the exact sciences. The Mobile Science project is part of the Unisul ́s actions aligned to sustainable development goals (SDGs), UN 2030 Agenda.

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“…У истраживањима, аутор Мајор са сарадницима (Major, Namestovski, Horák, Bagány, & Pintér Krekić, 2017) наводи да Србија јесте потписница бројних међународних докумената који промовишу образовање за одрживи развој. Први и делимични увиди у присутност идеја одрживог развоја у универзитетском образовању у Србији показују да су ти процеси започети, али да постоји широк простор и евидентна потреба да се то поље знатно прошири (Pavlović, 2011).…”

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The attitudes of future pedagogists to sustainable development

Kalmar¹,

Pinter-Krekić²,

Major³

2021

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Sustainable development is an essential precondition, and also the ultimate goal, of the organization of numerous human activities, with particular emphasis on education. One of the key dimensions of sustainable development is the social dimension, which refers to citizens' comprehension of its importance. The aim of the study presented in this paper was to establish the attitudes of future pedagogists towards sustainable development. The sample consisted of 240 respondents. The study used the descriptive method, and the data collection technique used was the questionnaire survey-the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Attitudes to Sustainable Development. The results of the survey confirm the general research hypothesis that students regard sustainable development as extremely important. Students of teacher training faculties are aware of the concept and importance of sustainable development for the present and the future, but are insufficiently prepared to educate future generations about it. The pedagogical implications of this study would be that university teachers should implement more content dealing with sustainable development as part of the curriculum, particularly at faculties educating future pedagogists. This is particularly important for these students so that they can act with the future in mind-the future of young generations.

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Teach it to sustain it! Environmental attitudes of Hungarian teacher training students in Serbia

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Current Societal Views about Sustainable Wildlife Management and Conservation: A Survey of College Students in China

Current Societal Views about Sustainable Wildlife Management and Conservation: A Survey of College Students in China

Mobile Science Project: Promoting Active Methodologies through Environmental Workshops in Schools

The attitudes of future pedagogists to sustainable development

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