Environmental literacy of pupils and its investigation in the Czech Republic

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Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Environmental literacy of pupils and its investigation in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Environmental literacy of pupils and its investigation in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Sociální pedagogika [online]

ISSN

1805-8825

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

88-104

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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