The levels of awareness about the renewable energy sources of university students in Turkey

Karatepe, Yelda; Neşe, Seçil Varbak; Keçebaş, Ali; Yumurtacı, Mehmet

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.099

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“…In a study of 13-14 year old Turkish school students, Kılınc et al (2009) found that over half of the students thought that renewable power generators could in some way harm plants, animals or humans that lived nearby. Similar lack of awareness and knowledge was also found for Turkish university students by Karatepe et al (2012) who found that female students had more information and higher levels of awareness about RES than male students. In the US, energy literacy was measured with a written questionnaire completed by 3708 secondary students in New York State.…”

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Prospects for renewable energy education (REE) in elevating youth energy and environmental awareness in Jordan

Zyadin¹

2015

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Renewable Energy Education (REE) is an evolving public education approach that ultimately aims to elevate public awareness and cultivate their support toward renewable energy (RE) development. Young citizens are the pacesetters of RE development if equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills. There is, however, a lack of research studies aimed at exploring and understanding young citizens' perceptions and attitudes toward RE, particularly in developing countries. Jordan is an example of a fossil fuel-addicted country, yet it is endowed with enormous RE potential. This dissertation provides a synthesis drawn from exploring school students' knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes toward RE and their perceptions toward protection of the environment (Paper 1, IV). This study also investigated knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes towards RE among secondary school teachers (Paper II). The nature of interactions between students, home, school, and the role of mass media were also explored (Paper III).The results showed that females, residents of urban areas, and students of private-mixed schools were more knowledgeable of the uses and the nature of renewable energy technologies (Paper I). The study found that males seem to support nuclear power, while females favored renewables (Paper 1). Females attributed the responsibility for environmental protection to society as a whole, while males attributed it specifically to the government. However, females appeared very skeptical about the role of science/technology, and interventions from developed countries on environmental protection (Paper IV). The students' knowledge of bioenergy appeared very weak (Paper I). Although teachers supported RE they appeared skeptical about its future development in Jordan (Paper II). The teachers thus supported nuclear power and oil shale resource utilization as a means for economic development. The students denoted their parents as a prime source of information while they indicated that the internet was an important tool to acquire information.The study suggests that educated and well-informed young citizens may convey their knowledge to their illiterate parents. TV and school activities appeared of great importance for females whilst males preferred to receive information from parents and school teachers (Paper III). The study highlighted the need to revisit the current public education policies in Jordan in order to craft new policies aimed at fostering a better knowledge of RE, its uses and benefits with special focus on females' preferences and needs. The study also suggests developing the RE knowledge capacities of teachers to ensure successful implementation of newly crafted educational policies. The study further suggests developing public outreach campaigns through mass media with the aim of eliminating uncertainty among the public regarding future energy choices.

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Prospects for renewable energy education (REE) in elevating youth energy and environmental awareness in Jordan

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2015

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“…Recent studies in Greece and other countries have focused on the issue of knowledge about RES, targeting either the general population [7,21,22,32e34], elementary school pupils [35e37], students [5,28e30,38e41] or teachers [26,42]. Some of these studies investigate the knowledge level of a specific renewable energy source [28e30, 32,34,35,39], while those comparing the knowledge levels of different RES indicate that in most cases the public is most likely to know about solar and wind energy [5,7,18,21,22,26,33,35,37,43].…”

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Socioeconomic and demographic factors that influence publics' awareness on the different forms of renewable energy sources

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a b s t r a c tPublic awareness of renewable energy sources can offer multiple benefits, as it can contribute to the social acceptance of projects based on these energy sources and to the overall improvement of consumers' energy behaviour. The objective of the present study is to examine the demographic and socioeconomic factors that determine someone's knowledge on different forms of renewable energy, based on data from a survey that took place in the summer of 2012 in Greece. The most known renewable energy forms are solar and wind energy, followed by geothermal, hydropower and biomass. The lesser known forms are tidal, wave and ocean thermal energy. Factors having a statistically significant relation with the different forms of renewable energy are gender, age, education level, head of household education level, environmentally friendly behaviour and having an occupation, studies or interests related to environment, technology or engineering.

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“…Estos aspectos también se enmarcan en tres campos propuestos por DeWaters y Powers (2011): el cognitivo, el afectivo y el del comportamiento. En trabajos previos se plantea una diferencia significativa entre el conocimiento (Trumper et al 2000) y las actitudes frente al uso eficiente de la energía; el uso de energías renovables entre estudiantes de primaria y secundaria suele ser mínimo y acrítico (Karatepe, Neşe Keçebaş y Yumurtacı, 2012).…”

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Actividades tecnológicas escolares: un recurso didáctico para promover una cultura de las energías renovables

Ramírez

Páez

López

2018

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El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación en la cual se diseñó y evaluó una propuesta de estructura de Actividades Tecnológicas Escolares (ate). Tales actividades permiten abordar el estudio de la tecnología en sus dimensiones técnicas y socioculturales en relación con las energías renovables. En la primera parte del texto se encuentran: las consideraciones teóricas sobre la relación energías renovables y educación y su desarrollo particular en Colombia; los presupuestos pedagógicos que sustentan este tipo de actividades, en general asociados a la perspectiva construccionista de los aprendizajes y la conceptualización de este tipo de actividades, asi como algunas reflexiones sobre la noción de cultura implicada en los procesos que se proponen su transformación. En la segunda parte se describe la propuesta pedagógica de ate organizada en dos etapas: El diseño didáctico de las actividades y la construcción de prototipos. En la tercera parte se presenta la metodología del estudio seguida de los resultados sobre la implementación y validación de la propuesta. El estudio muestra evidencias del valor didáctico de la estructura de las ate, la pertinencia del tema en la escuela y el interés y la disponibilidad por parte de estudiantes y docentes hacia un cambio cultural que mejore el uso eficiente de las energías alternativas.

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The levels of awareness about the renewable energy sources of university students in Turkey

Cited by 87 publications

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Prospects for renewable energy education (REE) in elevating youth energy and environmental awareness in Jordan

Prospects for renewable energy education (REE) in elevating youth energy and environmental awareness in Jordan

Socioeconomic and demographic factors that influence publics' awareness on the different forms of renewable energy sources

Actividades tecnológicas escolares: un recurso didáctico para promover una cultura de las energías renovables

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