Journal article
Voting for change: an international study of students’ willingness to support measures to ameliorate climate change
Research in Science Education
02/07/2019
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Abstract
Voting for various pro-environmental governmental policies is an indirect, but potentially effective, action that citizens can take to reduce global warming (GW) and climate change. Supporting further environmental education is an additional action. This study reports stu-dents' beliefs about the effectiveness of these indirect actions in reducing GW and their willingness to support such actions (e.g. increased taxes). Students' responses (n > 12,000 grades 6 to 10 from 11 countries) to a specially designed questionnaire are reported. Links between their beliefs and their willingness to act were quantified using a range of novel derived indices. Significant disparities between beliefs and willingness to act were found across the various countries. The focus of this paper is the derived index, the Natural Willingness to Act (NWA). Interpretations are proffered for the reported differences between countries. The extents of students' concern and self-reported knowledge about global warming strongly correlate with NWA values, as do their cultural orientations, and other contextual factors (e.g. governmental trust). Pedagogical implications and ways forward are suggested.
Details
- Title
- Voting for change: an international study of students’ willingness to support measures to ameliorate climate change
- Creators
- Keith Skamp (Corresponding Author) - Southern Cross UniversityEddie Boyes (Author) - University of LiverpoolMartin Stanisstreet (Author) - University of LiverpoolManuel Rodriguez (Author) - Ciudad UniversitariaGeorge Malandrakis (Author) - University of Western MacedoniaRosanne Fortner (Author) - The Ohio State UniversityAhmet Kilinc (Author) - Uludag UniversityNeil Taylor (Author) - University of New EnglandKiran Choker (Author) - Centre for Environmental Education (India)Dua Shweta (Author) - Centre for Environmental Education (India)Abdullah Ambusaidi (Author) - Sultan Qaboos UniversityIrene Cheong (Author) - Australian Catholic UniversityMijung Kim (Author) - University of AlbertaHye-Gyoung Yoon (Author) - Chuncheon National University of Education
- Publication Details
- Research in Science Education
- Identifiers
- 991012862298902368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article