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Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution
The environmental challenges of the twenty-first century are a consequence of the impact that human beings have on nature. Because of this, environmental attitudes are paramount in establishing effective measures regarding both biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution. Therefore, the ma...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388238/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30696048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030362 |
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author | Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco-Javier Cáceres-Reche, María-Pilar Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel Romero-Rodríguez, José-María |
author_facet | Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco-Javier Cáceres-Reche, María-Pilar Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel Romero-Rodríguez, José-María |
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description | The environmental challenges of the twenty-first century are a consequence of the impact that human beings have on nature. Because of this, environmental attitudes are paramount in establishing effective measures regarding both biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution. Therefore, the main goal of this paper has been evaluating the environmental attitudes of future primary education teachers, considering their responsibility for teaching the new generations of citizens. A quantitative methodology has been applied to describe the reality observed. The data collection instrument used was the scale of environmental attitudes towards specific problems; this scale was applied to a sample of 307 students of the degree in Primary Education at the University of Granada. More specifically, the subscales corresponding to pollution, biodiversity, natural spaces and recycling were analysed. Results reveal a high level of environmental attitudes in future primary education teachers; moreover, there is a positive interdependence among the different subscales. Finally, it is of great importance to evaluate the environmental attitudes of future primary education teachers, given that the future of biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution are in the hands of new generations. |
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spelling | pubmed-63882382019-02-27 Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco-Javier Cáceres-Reche, María-Pilar Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel Romero-Rodríguez, José-María Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The environmental challenges of the twenty-first century are a consequence of the impact that human beings have on nature. Because of this, environmental attitudes are paramount in establishing effective measures regarding both biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution. Therefore, the main goal of this paper has been evaluating the environmental attitudes of future primary education teachers, considering their responsibility for teaching the new generations of citizens. A quantitative methodology has been applied to describe the reality observed. The data collection instrument used was the scale of environmental attitudes towards specific problems; this scale was applied to a sample of 307 students of the degree in Primary Education at the University of Granada. More specifically, the subscales corresponding to pollution, biodiversity, natural spaces and recycling were analysed. Results reveal a high level of environmental attitudes in future primary education teachers; moreover, there is a positive interdependence among the different subscales. Finally, it is of great importance to evaluate the environmental attitudes of future primary education teachers, given that the future of biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution are in the hands of new generations. MDPI 2019-01-28 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6388238/ /pubmed/30696048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030362 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco-Javier Cáceres-Reche, María-Pilar Trujillo-Torres, Juan-Manuel Romero-Rodríguez, José-María Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title | Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title_full | Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title_fullStr | Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title_short | Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution |
title_sort | environmental attitudes in trainee teachers in primary education. the future of biodiversity preservation and environmental pollution |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388238/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30696048 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030362 |
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