Moving environmental education forward through evaluation

Pauw, Jelle Boeve-de

doi:10.1016/j.stueduc.2014.04.002

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“…Although there is an agreement on the quality and goals of ESD, there is not much evaluative research on the success of sustainability education (Boeve- de Pauw, 2014;UNESCO, 2014). For instance, it is not known how students experience ESD at school and if these experiences have any influence on their values, skills and intentions to act in a sustainable way in their own life.…”

Section: School As Learning Environment For Ecological Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory school experiences as facilitators for adolescents' ecological behavior

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Pauw

Saloranta

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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a b s t r a c tThis study investigates how sustainability-related in-school experiences, through psycho-social variables, influence adolescents' out-of-school general ecological intentions and behaviors. Data from a nationally representative sample of 2361 Finnish adolescents was used to test a hypothetical model. Effects of school experiences were studied using structural equation modeling. Excellent model fit showed that in-school agency and prosocial experience enhance adolescents' pro-environmental values, personal norms and self-efficacy for general ecological behavior. Ecological and pro-environmental intentions and behaviors outside of school were strengthened by the psycho-social constructs, especially by pro-environmental value and self-efficacy. In-school agency and prosocial experiences had stronger effects on psycho-social constructs, while the effect of ecological experiences was low. The model suggests that school's sustainability education should not provide only ecological experiences, but more importantly connect pro-social and agency experiences through an approach that emphasizes proenvironmental values and self-efficacy for general ecological behavior.

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Section: School As Learning Environment For Ecological Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory school experiences as facilitators for adolescents' ecological behavior

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Saloranta

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Environmental education undoubtedly has a key role in developing human strategies that facilitate the solution of many environmental problems [1]. The role of environmental education is strongly transformative since it contributes to changing people's attitudes, behavior, and values toward the environment and society [2].…”

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Adapting Recommendations on Environmental Education Programs

2023

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Stakeholders in Environmental Education (EE) often face difficulties identifying and selecting programs that best suit their needs. This is due, in part, to the lack of expertise in evaluation knowledge and practice, as well as to the absence of a unified database of Environmental Education Programs (EEPs) with a defined structure. This article presents the design and development of a web application for evaluating and selecting EEPs. The certified users of the application can insert, view, and evaluate the registered EEPs. At the same time, the application creates and maintains for each user an individual and dynamic user model reflecting their personal preferences. Finally, using all the above information and applying a combination of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods (MCDM), the application provides a comparative and adaptive evaluation in order to help each user to select the EEPs that best suit his/her needs. The personalized recommendations are based on the information about the user stored in the user model and the results of the EEPs evaluations by the users that have applied them. As a case study, we used the EEPs from the Greek Educational System.

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