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How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Concepts of 464 university freshmen towards Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) were analyzed. Responses were classified into seven main categories: ‘ecological aspects’, ‘ecological problems’, ‘economical aspects’, ‘social aspects’, ‘environmental attitudes’...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30640908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208910 |
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author | Maurer, Michaela Bogner, Franz Xaver |
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description | Concepts of 464 university freshmen towards Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) were analyzed. Responses were classified into seven main categories: ‘ecological aspects’, ‘ecological problems’, ‘economical aspects’, ‘social aspects’, ‘environmental attitudes’, ‘environmental behavior’ and ‘education’. Analyses of sustainability concepts show a large discrepancy between EE and ESD, whereby the latter includes an additional sub-group: ‘the next generation aspect’. Labeling individual sources of EE in a retrospective assessment identified the family as the most important source of knowledge, followed by media, school and outreach. Further differences were detected between students’ self-perception and their ideal conception of environmental behavior, by using the scale Inclusion of Nature in Self (INS). Only some EE statements produced higher (unfulfilled) expectations ‘economic aspects’, ‘environmental behavior’ and ‘ecological problems’. In contrast fewer (unfulfilled) expectations were observed in the categories of ‘education’ and ‘ecological aspects’. |
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spelling | pubmed-63311782019-01-31 How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Maurer, Michaela Bogner, Franz Xaver PLoS One Research Article Concepts of 464 university freshmen towards Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) were analyzed. Responses were classified into seven main categories: ‘ecological aspects’, ‘ecological problems’, ‘economical aspects’, ‘social aspects’, ‘environmental attitudes’, ‘environmental behavior’ and ‘education’. Analyses of sustainability concepts show a large discrepancy between EE and ESD, whereby the latter includes an additional sub-group: ‘the next generation aspect’. Labeling individual sources of EE in a retrospective assessment identified the family as the most important source of knowledge, followed by media, school and outreach. Further differences were detected between students’ self-perception and their ideal conception of environmental behavior, by using the scale Inclusion of Nature in Self (INS). Only some EE statements produced higher (unfulfilled) expectations ‘economic aspects’, ‘environmental behavior’ and ‘ecological problems’. In contrast fewer (unfulfilled) expectations were observed in the categories of ‘education’ and ‘ecological aspects’. Public Library of Science 2019-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6331178/ /pubmed/30640908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208910 Text en © 2019 Maurer, Bogner http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Maurer, Michaela Bogner, Franz Xaver How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title | How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title_full | How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title_fullStr | How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title_full_unstemmed | How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title_short | How freshmen perceive Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) |
title_sort | how freshmen perceive environmental education (ee) and education for sustainable development (esd) |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30640908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208910 |
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