What are the most important environmental problems according to the second grade primary school students?

Yurttaş, Gülfem Dilek; Sülün, Yusuf

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.244

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“…Since then, environmental education has become an important part of both the secondary and primary school curricula. In particular, incorporating environmental education into the primary education curriculum has become a key issue (Hsu, 2005;Huang & Lin, 2008;Ürey, Çolak, & Okur, 2009;Yurttaş & Sülün, 2010;Zhang & Ye, 2010).…”

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Investigating elementary school students' technology acceptance by applying digital game-based learning to environmental education

Cheng

Lou

Kuo

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<p class="Abstract">In order to improve and promote students' environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour, integrating environmental education into the primary education curriculum has become a key issue for environmental education. For this reason, this study aimed to investigate elementary school students' acceptance of technology applying digital game-based learning (DGBL) to environmental education. A total of 32 fourth graders in an elementary school participated in a seven-week DGBL teaching experiment. After the experimental teaching session, a survey concerning "perceived ease of use", "perceived usefulness", and "user intentions" was conducted. The results show that the DGBL system is suitable for both genders at all levels of experience. In addition, the 4th grade students' "perceived ease of use", "perceived usefulness", "attitudes toward use", and "intention to use" reveal a high degree of positive and significant correlations. Furthermore, a path analysis verifies that DGBL acceptance will be directly influenced by a learner's "attitude toward use" and "perceived usefulness." Finally, when designing DGBL for 4th graders, the rich learning content and ease of use should be taken into account because they significantly contribute to a learner's intention to use the system, which may result in greater learning effectiveness.</p>

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Investigating elementary school students' technology acceptance by applying digital game-based learning to environmental education

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“…Specifically, despite the campaigns carried out by various institutions, values and knowledge related to environmental problems are not progressing [52]. Various studies indicate that this may be due to misinformation about environmental problems that is disseminated through the media, social networks, the Internet, newspapers and magazines [54]. Other studies suggest that slow processes and the lack of involvement of teachers in promoting sustainability, the lack of recognition of these activities in the university curriculum and the lack of institutional support are possible causes [55,56].…”

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Analysis of Environmental Awareness, Emotions and Level of Self-Efficacy of Teachers in Training within the Framework of Waste for the Achievement of Sustainable Development

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The United Nations General Assembly has pointed out that education is an essential tool for properly instructing society to achieve sustainable development, in terms of values, skills, knowledge or abilities. Within this framework, this research focuses on environmental attitude and awareness as an influential element in the teaching and learning processes. The main objective of the study was to diagnose and evaluate emotional, teaching self-efficacy and environmental awareness variables of teachers in primary and secondary education training within the framework of waste. The sample was made up of 160 teachers in training. As a measurement instrument, a questionnaire was designed, developed and validated consisting of three different parts to measure the variables under investigation. The descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the data shows attitudinal, emotional and self-efficacy differences according to the categories examined, revealing the need to promote an improvement in the attitude towards certain environmental actions in future teachers. The results suggest that education has a relevant role in sustainability, and its importance and inclusion in the curricula of the different educational stages should be recognized.

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“…While primary school students usually already have a basic awareness of these issues and may even feel their urgency, the students' understanding of particular causes and effects is often loaded with misconceptions [3][4][5]. This situation may be attributed not only to the complex nature of global issues, but also to the fact that the main source of students' information about global issues seems to be the media rather than formal education [6,7].…”

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Becoming a Global Citizen through Participation in the Global Storylines Program

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This study investigates the effect of the Global Storylines educational program which aims to increase primary school students’ sustainability competences and their awareness of global problems. To obtain the data, we organized seven focus groups with a total of 52 students (25 girls, 27 boys) of an average age of 8.55 years, and conducted 7 interviews with 8 teachers (all women). The findings demonstrate the program’s likely effect on students’ improved inter- and intra-personal skills, better social climate in the classes, and students’ increased sensitivity to global issues noticeable in local communities. However, the program’s effect on student self-efficacy in mitigating the presented issues in real life does not seem to be supported. Further, this study analyzes the constraints perceived by the teachers in implementing the program in primary schools. The teachers found the program rather time-consuming and the topic more appropriate for older students. Finally, the study discusses the implications of these results for implementing and running the program in the future.

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What are the most important environmental problems according to the second grade primary school students?

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Investigating elementary school students' technology acceptance by applying digital game-based learning to environmental education

Investigating elementary school students' technology acceptance by applying digital game-based learning to environmental education

Analysis of Environmental Awareness, Emotions and Level of Self-Efficacy of Teachers in Training within the Framework of Waste for the Achievement of Sustainable Development

Becoming a Global Citizen through Participation in the Global Storylines Program

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