Environmentally Friendly Behaviour of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
Keywords:
sustainable development, environmental education, pre-service elementary teachers, environmental awareness, environmentally friendly behaviourAbstract
Environmentally friendly behaviour is a complex component of human practical action in the environment, when a person is not only aware of environmental problems and expresses a willingness to take active action, but also behaves in accordance with the requirements of the natural environment. The paper presents an empirical research that examines the level of environmental behaviour of future elementary school teachers who attended the 4th year (1st cycle) or 1st year (2nd cycle) of one of the three Slovenian faculties of education in the 2019/20 academic year. The survey finds that respondents rate the importance of protecting and preserving the environment as important or very important. Their level of environmental behaviour is fairly average (x = 3.23) and is related to the assessment of the importance of preserving and protecting the environment: the higher the assessment of the importance of protecting and preserving the environment, the higher the level of environmental behaviour; however, there are no differences in the level of environmental behaviour according to the faculty
the respondents attend. Further analysis showed that the majority of respondents believe that the faculty of education at which they study did not have an impact on their environmental behaviour.
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