Beliefs and Willingness to Act about Global Warming: Where to Focus Science Pedagogy?

Autor/inn/en	Skamp, Keith; Boyes, Eddie; Stanisstreet, Martin
Titel	Beliefs and Willingness to Act about Global Warming: Where to Focus Science Pedagogy?
Quelle	In: Science Education, 97 (2013) 2, S.191-217 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326
DOI	10.1002/sce.21050
Schlagwörter	Science Teachers; Science Instruction; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Comparative Analysis; Questionnaires; Cohort Analysis; Climate; Environmental Education; Correlation; Behavior Change; Social Action; Role of Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Australia; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Fragebogen; Kohortenanalyse; Klima; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Korrelation; Soziales Handeln; Bildungsauftrag; Unterrichtserfolg; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Australien
Abstract	Science educators have a key role in empowering students to take action to reduce global warming. This involves assisting students to understand its causes as well as taking pedagogical decisions that have optimal probabilities of leading to students being motivated to take actions based on empirically based science beliefs. To this end New South Wales' (Australia) ("n" = 500) and English ("n" = 785) secondary students' (Grades 7–10) beliefs about the effectiveness of various specific actions in reducing global warming, and their self-reported willingness to take those actions, were determined and compared, using a specially designed questionnaire. Using novel derived indices, the relationship between beliefs and willingness to act for specific actions was explored. In general, both cohorts were less inclined to act than their beliefs in the effectiveness of the actions might warrant, although the extent of this disparity varied between different actions. However, further analysis identified those actions for which science education may be more effective in encouraging proenvironmental behavior. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10