| Title | Sustainability Education and Environmental Worldviews: Shifting a Paradigm |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 76236 |
| Authors | Ling, S; Landon, A; Tarrant, M; Rubin, D |
| Title | Sustainability Education and Environmental Worldviews: Shifting a Paradigm |
| Year | 2020 |
| Published | Sustainability, 12, 19 |
| Abstract | Higher education institutions are tasked with education for sustainable development, of which the environment is a central pillar. Understanding the demographic factors that influence the establishment of environmental worldviews allows educators to better contextualize sustainability content and discussion. Identifying pedagogies capable of creating learning spaces within which worldviews can shift offers similar opportunities. Using a quasi-experimental design and model building, this study identifies important social psychological antecedents of environmental beliefs, assesses the effectiveness of outbound mobility pedagogy at changing those beliefs and identifies important predictors of the nature and magnitude of those changes. Sustainable outbound mobility courses were effective at increasing environmental worldview compared to a control group. At program commencement, political orientation and business majors were negatively associated with environmental worldview, while female gender was the reverse. For sustainability education courses, only gender was retained as a significant predictor of the nature and change of environmental worldview by the course's end. These results suggest that the factors associated with environmental worldview upon commencement of a course do not necessarily predict the malleability of that worldview in higher education students. |
| https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/8258/pdf |
Similar Articles
| ID | Score | Article |
|---|---|---|
72977
|
Balcerak, A; Wozniak, J Shaping Pro-Environmental Attitudes through Higher Education-A Preliminary Study(2022)Sustainability, 14, 21 | |
| 12759
|
Kiely, L; Parajuly, K; Green, JA; Fitzpatrick, C Education for UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: A Cross-Curricular Program for Secondary Level Students(2021) | |
| 76165
|
Yang, MH; Wang, JW; Yasmin, F Does Higher Business Education Champion Environmental Sustainability for Next Generation of Leaders? An Assessment of In-School Students and Alumni's Perspective(2021)Polish Journal Of Environmental Studies, 30, 6 | |
| 6663
|
Kopnina, H Sustainability in environmental education: new strategic thinking(2015)Environment Development And Sustainability, 17, 5 |