Gender, age and subject matter: impact on teachers’ ecological values

Britta Oerke () and Franz X. Bogner ()
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Britta Oerke: University of Bayreuth
Franz X. Bogner: University of Bayreuth

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2010, vol. 30, issue 2, 111-122

Abstract: Abstract By means of environmental education, teachers are supposed to intervene in pupils’ awareness and concern of environmental issues. Teachers’ environmental attitudes, however, have rarely been studied. We analysed 367 German pre- and in-service teachers’ environmental attitudes for their structure and socio-economic correlates within the frame of a European project. Thus, we retrieved for adults the two-dimensional model of ecological values (2-MEV) presented for adolescents by Bogner and Wiseman (Sci Educ Int 15(1):27–48, 2004). For the two domains, Preservation and Utilisation, the psychometric structure was confirmed and discriminative correlations with age, gender and teaching subject were unveiled. Further research is needed to deduce the implications for teaching practice.

Keywords: Environmental attitudes; E. values; Environmental perception; Teachers; Student teachers; Gender; Age; 2-MEV model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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