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2020
Education for Environmental Citizenship and Responsible Environmental Behaviour
GOLDMAN, Daphne, Ralph HANSMANN, Jan ČINČERA, Vesela RADOVIĆ, Audronė TELEŠIENĖ et. al.
Basic information
Original name
Education for Environmental Citizenship and Responsible Environmental Behaviour
Authors
GOLDMAN, Daphne, Ralph HANSMANN, Jan ČINČERA, Vesela RADOVIĆ, Audronė TELEŠIENĖ, Aiste BALŽEKIENE and Jan VÁVRA
Edition
1st ed. Cham, Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education, p. 115-137, 23 pp. Environmental Discourses in Science Education, vol. 4. 2020
Other information
Type of outcome
Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Country of publisher
Switzerland
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
electronic version available online
Organization
Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
Behavioural models; Knowledge-attitude-behaviour gap; Private sphere; Pro-environmental behaviour; Psychosocial variables; Public sphere
V originále
The notion of Environmental Citizenship embodies behaviour – an actively involved citizen who exercises his/her environmental rights and obligations in the private and public spheres. Education for Environmental Citizenship implies behavioural change; its goal is to facilitate an individual’s intellectual growth (cognitive domain) and emotional capacity (affective domain) that may lead to a critical and actively engaged individual. Human behaviour is overwhelmingly sophisticated, and what shapes pro-environmental behaviour is complex and context specific. Furthermore, empirical research indicates a discrepancy between possessing environmental knowledge and environmentally supportive attitudes and behaving pro-environmentally. The point of departure of this chapter is that the social and psychological study of behaviour has much to inform the study of environmental behaviour and, deriving from this, to inform regarding the type of education towards behaviour/action in the goal of sustainable socioecological transformation. The chapter focuses on internal (psychosocial) factors. It presents selected models regarding factors influencing behavioural decisions that are acknowledged as influential theoretical frameworks for investigating pro-environmental behaviour, as well as various theories that inform these models. These are categorised into knowledge-based models; attitude-, value- and norm-oriented models; skills, self-efficacy and situational factors; and new approaches to environmental behaviour models. The chapter concludes with suggestions for Education for Environmental Citizenship deriving from the various models.
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