Informal Earth Education: Significant Shifts for Environmental Attitude and Knowledge

Environmental education aims to affect environmental knowledge and attitude to ultimately induce pro-environmental behavior. Based on 247 upper elementary school students, we tested the impact of an outdoor-based earth education program on environmental knowledge and attitude with a pre-post design....

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Autores principales: Baierl, Tessa-Marie, Johnson, Bruce, Bogner, Franz X.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35615200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819899
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description Environmental education aims to affect environmental knowledge and attitude to ultimately induce pro-environmental behavior. Based on 247 upper elementary school students, we tested the impact of an outdoor-based earth education program on environmental knowledge and attitude with a pre-post design. Both outcome measures were Rasch scales. Environmental knowledge is a composite of 27 system, action, and effectiveness knowledge items, and environmental attitude is a composite of 13 evaluative statements and 11 self-reported behaviors about nature preservation. Our analysis revealed gains in environmental knowledge and attitude. The convergence between knowledge and attitude increased significantly from pre- to post-program, and attitude played a significant role in knowledge acquisition.
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spelling pubmed-91263052022-05-24 Informal Earth Education: Significant Shifts for Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Baierl, Tessa-Marie Johnson, Bruce Bogner, Franz X. Front Psychol Psychology Environmental education aims to affect environmental knowledge and attitude to ultimately induce pro-environmental behavior. Based on 247 upper elementary school students, we tested the impact of an outdoor-based earth education program on environmental knowledge and attitude with a pre-post design. Both outcome measures were Rasch scales. Environmental knowledge is a composite of 27 system, action, and effectiveness knowledge items, and environmental attitude is a composite of 13 evaluative statements and 11 self-reported behaviors about nature preservation. Our analysis revealed gains in environmental knowledge and attitude. The convergence between knowledge and attitude increased significantly from pre- to post-program, and attitude played a significant role in knowledge acquisition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9126305/ /pubmed/35615200 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819899 Text en Copyright © 2022 Baierl, Johnson and Bogner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126305/
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