Narrative-Based Environmental Education Improves Environmental Awareness and Environmental Attitudes in Children Aged 6–8

Ben Yang, Ningning Wu, Zepeng Tong and Yan Sun
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Ben Yang: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Ningning Wu: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Zepeng Tong: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Yan Sun: Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-19

Abstract: Environmental education can effectively raise people’s awareness of environmental protection and encourage appropriate behaviors. This study explored the effect of narrative-based environmental education on children’s environmental awareness. To this end, we recruited first- and second-grade students from two elementary schools to participate in an experiment in which differences between the group receiving narrative-based environmental video education and the control group were compared. It was found that narrative-based environmental education can effectively promote children’s environmental awareness, which was mainly reflected in their environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes, however, not significant in their pro-environmental behavior intention. These findings support the implementation of environmental education for students in lower grades in the future.

Keywords: narrative; environmental education; environmental awareness; environmental attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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