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  • Examining the conflict and interconnectedness of young people’s ideas about environmental issues, responsibility and action

    Author(s)
    Wilks, Leigh
    Harris, Neil
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Harris, Neil D.
    Year published
    2016
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    Objective: Young people’s environmental views are typically conflicted, with little recognition of the links between environmental issues or between environmental responsibility and action. The purpose of this study was to clarify whether young people’s understanding of the environment is in conflict or whether they are forming interconnections between issues, responsibility and action that have not yet been identified. Methods: Data relating to environmental attitudes, responsibility, issues and action was collected from 305 high school students in south east Queensland. Regression analyses were used to identify variables ...
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    Objective: Young people’s environmental views are typically conflicted, with little recognition of the links between environmental issues or between environmental responsibility and action. The purpose of this study was to clarify whether young people’s understanding of the environment is in conflict or whether they are forming interconnections between issues, responsibility and action that have not yet been identified. Methods: Data relating to environmental attitudes, responsibility, issues and action was collected from 305 high school students in south east Queensland. Regression analyses were used to identify variables that influenced the importance young people placed on environmental issues and actions. Results: Young people’s ideas about environmental responsibility influenced the level of importance they placed on global warming and resource consumption. Young people’s sense of hope and hopelessness were the main drivers of their endorsement of individualistic and political actions for the environment. Conclusions: The unifying factor that influenced young people’s ideas about the environment was a sense of hope. Thus, while young people may already be intuiting their own sense of environmental interconnectedness, it is essential that this is expanded so that young people recognise the links between environmental issues, and the logical pathways that lead from environmental responsibility to action.
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    Journal Title
    Environmental Education Research
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1054261
    Subject
    Curriculum and pedagogy
    Specialist studies in education
    Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/141241
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