Students Engagement in Ecological Activities in Schools

Kirova, Snezana and Stavreva Veselinovska, Snezana (2011) Students Engagement in Ecological Activities in Schools. Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 6 (4).

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Abstract

Ecological education is gaining importance at the time when
environmental crisis is getting wider and wider. Education is one of
the most powerful resources of society in dealing with problems and
challenges of the future. The paper presents results of research related
to students' attitudes about the activities they would prefer to engage
in, which independent variables their willingness to engage depends
on, and how the knowledge that students possess and their willingness
to engage in ecological activities are related. The survey was
conducted on a sample of 324 seventh grade primary schools students
in urban and rural areas, polluted and unpolluted environment, urban
area - 180 students; rural area - 144 students). The sample of students
was adjusted according to two criteria. The first criterion was the
place where students live so we took into account the urban and rural
areas; the second criterion was the level of pollution, i.e. noncontamination
of the environment in which students live. The structure
of the sample of students was presented with respect to gender, place
and environment in which students live. Results indicate that students
are more interested in activities that occur in nature where they are
direct participants and they have a subjective feeling of really doing
something to protect the environment. In addition, the results show
that girls from both samples and students from the country are more
willing to engage in environmental activities. Life in polluted and
unpolluted environment is not a statistically significant variable that
would affect the willingness of students to engage in these activities.
We believe that the most interesting result of this research is the
finding that a higher level of environmental knowledge of students and
life in a polluted environment do not guarantee a greater willingness
of students to engage in environmental protection activities.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ecological education, nature, descriptive method, urban and rural areas, students
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Snezana Kirova
Date Deposited:	01 Nov 2012 13:45
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2012 14:03
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/278

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