The Environmental Concern of Nine-Grade Students from a Secondary Professional School

dc.creator	Z. Kostova
dc.creator	E. Vladimirova
dc.creator	B. Radoynovska
dc.date	2011-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:16:39Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:16:39Z
dc.identifier	1313-1958
dc.identifier	1313-9118
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a3088694619041149d069561a78aea1e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/25796
dc.description	The study analyzed the historical development of worldviews on human-environment interrelationships, different environmental attitude measuring instruments and the properties of the New Ecological Paradigm scale (NEPs). Based on the analysis, the NEP scale was considered a good and reliable attitude-measuring instrument and was employed for assessing environmental concern of students in a vocational school. A self-administered survey questionnaire was used to collect the necessary data. On the whole, students demonstrated positive attitude to the environment. They showed strong attitudes on the possibility of ecocrisis and weak attitudes on limits to population growth, better outlined tendency to ecocentrism than to anthropocentrism, and a good understanding of the delicate nature of the ecological balance. Their trust in technological advancement and in human intellectual abilities to solve ecological problems was well expressed. A significant part of them (about one fifth) demonstrated uncertainty acting on the save side. The mean scores (4.18 for the test and 4.15 for the re-test) for NEP significantly predominated over the mean scores (3.23 for the test and 3.20 for the retest) for DSP. Results will be employed in curricula and teaching strategies improvement.
dc.language	Bulgarian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Sofia
dc.relation	http://bjsep.org/getfile.php?id=97
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-1958
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-9118
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy , Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 178-218 (2011)
dc.subject	Environmental worldviews
dc.subject	Environmental attitude instruments
dc.subject	New ecological paradigm
dc.subject	Environmental attitude assessment
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	The Environmental Concern of Nine-Grade Students from a Secondary Professional School
dc.type	article