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University Students' Attitude to the Environment: An Australian/USA Comparison and the Effects of An Educational Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Larry R. Ridener
Larry R. Ridener*
Affiliation:
Radford University, Radford, Virginia
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Abstract

Significant differences were found between a pretest measurement of environmental attitudes of a sample of tertiary students from the USA and that of a similar sample of Australian students; the latter scored higher on the total scale used to measure attitudes, and on all but one of the subscales. After an educational program USA students showed significant increases in scores for the total scale and for all the subscales so that they scored significantly higher on two subscales than Australian students. Discussion of these changes in measured attitudes refers to the institutional processes of education, to changes in environmentalism and to notions of dependence on science and technology for the resolution of environmental issues.

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Research Article
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 13 , 1997 , pp. 77 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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