Vehicles for Education: Turkish Students' Beliefs and Views about Public Transport

Autor/inn/en	Kilinc, Ahmet; Seymen, Hatice; Malandrakis, George; Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin
Titel	Vehicles for Education: Turkish Students' Beliefs and Views about Public Transport
Quelle	In: International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 8 (2013) 3, S.479-500 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1306-3065
Schlagwörter	Transportation; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Questionnaires; Behavior Change; Time; Costs; Climate; Conservation (Environment); Environmental Education; Safety; High School Students; Incentives; Social Status; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verkehrswesen; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Fragebogen; Zeit; Cost; Kosten; Klima; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Sicherheit; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Anreiz; Sozialer Status; Türkei
Abstract	The increasing use of private rather than public transport is impacting on the environment in a number of ways, including contributing to the major problem of global warming. It is necessary, therefore, to improve strategies to encourage greater use of public transport. The aim of this study is to explore which perceived aspects of public transport might be acting as deterrents to the use of public transport, and which might act as motivators to increase its use. To act as a motivator a positive characteristic must be both seen as true for public transport and felt to be important by individuals. In contrast, negative characteristics that fulfill these criteria are likely to act as deterrents to the use of public transport. A questionnaire was used to determine the beliefs and views of Turkish students (n = 980) about such characteristics. Some characteristics, such as comfort, journey time, and timetable frequency and reliability were viewed as important and also believed to be inferior for public transport. We suggest that there are opportunities for education for behaviour change in terms of increasing student's appreciation of the importance of reducing global warming and their understanding of the role that public transport could play in this, and in terms of increasing students' understanding of the full economic cost of private transport. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication. Abant Izzet Baysal University, Faculty of Education, 14280 Golkoy-Bolu, Turkey. e-mail: editorijese@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.ijese.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10