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Sumner, Amira
(2005).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000e959
Abstract
A growing body of environmental education research suggests that environmental education has been unsuccessful in the achievement of some of its objectives. A dilemma exists - the environmental education being provided may be contributing to behaviour that is in conflict with the aims and objectives of this type of education. It was the aim of this research to build on previous work in order to describe the factors involved in a change seen in environmental disposition of UK secondary school &ls. The methodological approach taken to this research was that of a case study, including both cohort longitudinal) and cross-sectional aspects; also incorporating an action research approach taking the form of researcher diary, interviews, questionnaires and freewriting tasks throughout the 6 years of the study. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to analyse the empirical evidence. Freewriting was coded and a temporal-proximity grid was used to track changes in environmental concerns expressed by pupils through their schooling, key informants provided rich narratives of adolescent environmental thinking whilst statistics carried out on the questionnaire responses explored the wider-scale applicability of the data collected. The evidence is discussed with attention paid to factors relevant to the context - females going through adolescence. An Environmental Behaviour Portrait goes some way to visualizing the complex relationship between influences over environmental behaviour.
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