Environmental literacy of pupils and its investigation in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=g97XFmE.Yn" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=g97XFmE.Yn</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7441/soced.2020.08.01.04" target="_blank" >10.7441/soced.2020.08.01.04</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Environmental literacy of pupils and its investigation in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Environmental literacy is a concept consisting of knowledge, attitudes, sensitivity and behaviour. In this text we present a pilot study of a research tool focused on measuring the environmental literacy of ISCED 2 pupils. Through the study we measured the relationship between environmental literacy and selected variables (gender, grade and leisure activities). The target group consisted of pupils in the 6th to 9th grades of lower secondary schools, and the total number of respondents was 467. The inner consistency (Cronbach&apos;s α) of all tool scales (knowledge, attitudes, sensitivity, behaviour) reached acceptable values in the range of .71-.79. Spearman&apos;s correlation showed a statistically significant relationship mainly among the scales of attitudes, sensitivity and behaviour. Significant correlation coefficient values ranged from &lt; .44 to .65 &gt;. Significant differences appeared between boys and girls in regard to attitudes, sensitivity and behaviour scales, where girls reached higher scores. Girls showed more pro-environmental attitudes, sensitivity and behaviour than boys. It was also found that the pupils&apos; environmental knowledge increases with age. However, this does not apply to the scales of attitudes, sensitivity and behaviour. There was a high correlation between environmental literacy (excluding knowledge) and the leisure activities of pupils (outdoor activities, ICT, hobbies and sport). Leisure activities in combination with age can be considered essential determinants of environmental literacy, e.g. they predict 33% of the variability in the sensitivity scale.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociální pedagogika [online]

ISSN

1805-8825

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

88-104

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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