Kanada, M, Norman, P orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-1625, Kaida, N et al. (1 more author) (2022) Linking environmental knowledge, attitude, and behavior with place: a case study for strategic environmental education planning in Saint Lucia. Environmental Education Research. ISSN 1350-4622
Abstract
This case study investigated whether and how urban/rural differences may impact environmental knowledge, attitude, and action levels of the youth to better understand the linkage between place and environmental behavior. A nation-wide survey was conducted in Saint Lucia, targeting secondary school students. A total of 1,349 self-reported questionnaire samples were collected and the results were compared between sex (male/female), age (younger/older), and location (urban/rural) groups using three-way ANOVA tests. Significant urban–rural differences as well as interactions between location and age, and location and sex factors, were found. A path analysis further confirmed that location had a significant direct impact on students’ knowledge, and indirect impacts on attitude and action levels via age factor. We discuss the impact of living place on students’ environmental characteristics, and how environmental education (EE) can incorporate such perspective in its design. We believe that the obtained insights are useful for making EE more effective.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Environmental Education Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Environmental education; place; knowledge-attitudebehavior (KAB) model; student; Saint Lucia; GIS |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2022 08:52 |
Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13504622.2022.2074376 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187896 |