Factors affecting Attitudes and Behavior of Greek Secondary School Students on Current Environmental Issues

Q3 Social Sciences

Review of International Geographical Education Online Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI:10.33403/RIGEO.860160

Myrto Ganatsa, M. Tsakaldimi, P. Ganatsas

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Although, Greece is a Mediterranean country where, particular regions of its territory threatened with substantial impacts due to climate change, the academic research and critical reflection on the effects of the environmental and sustainability education initiative are lacking. Several studies, in Greece and worldwide, have been conducted on school students’ perceptions, ideas and understanding current environmental issues: climate change, greenhouse effect, and global warming. However, this study is the first that examines, in depth, how students’ environmental knowledge, attitude and behavior develop throughout adolescence and investigates the interaction between students’ cognitive level and the Greek official secondary school curriculum. A total of 600 secondary students participated, answering a questionnaire that focused on the students’ cognitive level on the environmental issues in relation to the official school curriculum, the influence of socio-demographic characteristics (students’ age, gender, school district, parents’ educational level), their environmental knowledge and consciousness, the information sources in the construction of their knowledge and awareness, as well as their suggestions for mitigation the environmental problems and finally the school vital role in informing and raising awareness.

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影响希腊中学生对当前环境问题态度和行为的因素

尽管希腊是一个地中海国家，其领土上的特定地区因气候变化而受到重大影响的威胁，但缺乏对环境和可持续性教育倡议影响的学术研究和批判性思考。在希腊和世界各地，对学生对当前环境问题的看法、想法和理解进行了几项研究：气候变化、温室效应和全球变暖。然而，这项研究首次深入探讨了学生在整个青春期的环境知识、态度和行为是如何发展的，并调查了学生的认知水平与希腊官方中学课程之间的互动。共有600名中学生参加了问卷调查，重点是学生对与学校官方课程有关的环境问题的认知水平、社会人口特征（学生的年龄、性别、学区、家长的教育水平）的影响、他们的环境知识和意识，信息来源在构建他们的知识和意识，以及他们对缓解环境问题的建议，最后是学校在告知和提高认识方面的重要作用。

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