In the discourse of social sciences, more and more attention is paid to the analysis of nature as a value and the problems of climate change. However, in the context of sustainable development, the ...attitude of different generations towards nature and climate change is important. Although the youth as a social group is seen as the future generation, it is noticeable that not many studies are conducted in Lithuania, where the opinion of the youth and their responsibility for changes in nature and climate change processes are evaluated. Accordingly, the aim of the research – to determine whether nature and climate change are important to youth in Lithuania. Data from European Social Survey (ESS) Round 10 (2021) were used. Logical analysis and synthesis, comparison method, statistical data analysis were applied, Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated. The research results revealed that youth sufficiently perceive nature as a value and see climate change as a problem that must be not only observed but also solved.
•The direction of item wording and its modification.•The specific view of utilization, exploiting or appreciation nature.•A clear message for educators when planning their environmental programs, ...since as more as people appreciate nature for personal gain as more they preserve the environment.
Environmental attitudes traditionally are measured with quantification of Preservation and, Utilization (2-MEV). With a sample of 308 Irish students, we once again confirmed the 2-MEV model, with several negatively formulated Utilization items loading on the Preservation factor, and negatively, formulated Preservation items loading on the Utilization factor. Exploitative and appreciative Utilization are shown to be distinct by a slightly negative correlation which even disappears when controlled for Preservation. Multiple regression analysis showed positive predictive validity of Preservation in relation to the appreciative use of nature, but negligible predictive validity in relation to exploitative Utilization. Consequently, a clear message exists for educators when planning their environmental programs: The more people appreciate nature for personal benefits, the more they preserve the environment.
Responsibility towards nature is a character trait that must be formed and developed from a young age. Children must learn how to fight against the complexity of problems, how to use ...interdisciplinary approaches by taking into consideration links with other problems, and to be able to evaluate facts and situations which lead to the deterioration of the environment. Alongside infusing the messages of environmental ethics, the use of pupil centered educational strategies represents an efficient way to train the children from the ecological point of view. Education cannot succeed in building up the ecological conscience and the ethic competences of the young generation without being accompanied by a new ethics – the ecological ethics – based on the man's respect towards nature, without using an adequate educational strategy and some dilemmas that include facts or situations which result in deteriorating the environment. This study aims to conduct a thorough analysis of the theoretical and practical ways to build up responsibility towards nature in the primary school.
Cilj rada je iz motrišta animalistike, kao relativne mlade znanstvene discipline nastale 1970-ih, pružiti novo čitanje neponovljivih Skitnji Matka Peića. U profinjenu kovitlacu Peićevih misli i ...filigranskim zapažanjima vezanima uz panonski prostor, upečatljivo se javlja jedna konstanta: nedjeljivost čovjeka i prirodnoga svijeta. Iz ranjive pozicije tek prolaznika na ovom planetu, autor jednakom oštrinom i pronicavošću kojom promatra ljude i krajeve, promatra i autohtone životinje. Iz Peićevih zapisa izvire sva raskoš divlje i domaće turopoljske i slavonske faune, i to u posve ravnopravnom odnosu s opisima krajolika, arhitekture ili tradicija i običaja. Peićev stav prema ljudsko-životinjskim odnosima nikako nije šegedinovski pesimističan, naprotiv, život i smrt za njega su trajan izvor fascinacije i on ih prihvaća i poštuje kao nepromjenjive činjenice. U jednom kasnijem Peićevu zapisu čitamo: “Pišući u čast Čovjeka, ne treba zaboraviti poštovanje prema Prirodi.” Stoga nećemo pogriješiti ustvrdimo li da nam se upravo putem animalističkih motiva autor otkriva kao vrstan znalac biologije te iskreni, biocentrični promicatelj animalističke – ili, još šire, ekološke – korektnosti, po čemu je 1967. godine, kada su objavljene Skitnje, bio daleko ispred svojega vremena.
The goal of environmental education is ultimately to enable a person to strive for and to attain a more ecological way of life. In this article, we begin by distinguishing three forms of ...environmental knowledge and go on to predict that people's attitude toward nature represents the force that drives their ecological behavioral engagement. Based on data from 1,907 students, we calibrated previously established instruments to measure ecological behavior, environmental knowledge, and attitude toward nature with Rasch-type models. Using path modeling, we corroborated our theoretically anticipated competence structure. While environmental knowledge revealed a modest behavioral effect, attitude toward nature turned out to be, as expected, the stronger determinant of behavior. Overall, we propose a competence model that has the potential to guide us into more evidence-based ways of promoting the overall ecological engagement of individuals. (DIPF/Orig.).
Children are spending less time in nature. They are not taking advantage of the benefits that are related to experiencing nature, such as the improvement of attentional capacity and stress reduction. ...Furthermore, they are also losing the opportunity to assess nature in a more positive way and to become more connected to nature, factors that appear to be fundamental to securing a greener future. To overcome this problem, researchers have been focusing on increasing children’s contact with nature in schools and in promoting garden-based learning programs. Children spend most of their time in school, where they face many cognitive and relational demands. As such, schools might be the ideal context to increase children’s contact with nature with more empirical research being needed to understand the effects that greener schools might have. The goal of this study is to explore the effects of schoolyards in children’s perceived restorativeness experiences, attitudes towards nature, connection to nature, and social competences. For that, we studied children (
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= 132) from three elementary schools with different schoolyards: a school with cement yard with a few trees, a school with green areas, and a school where many parts of the yard were earthen and there was a vegetable garden that the students could cultivate as part of an ongoing garden-based learning program. The results of a questionnaire confirmed that greener schoolyards were related to stronger restorative experiences. As such, children might benefit from improving their attentional capacity during breaks. Unexpectedly, the perceived restorativeness effect was stronger for children who usually had lesser contact with nature than for children who contacted more with nature. This suggests that having schools with green yards might buffer some of the effects of reduced contacts with nature outside of school. The effects of the schoolyard in children’s social competences did not appear to emerge. However, children that attended the school with the greener schoolyard had more positive attitudes and were more connected to nature than children from the other two schools. This further suggests that designing greener schoolyards might be an opportunity to contribute to reversing global environmental challenges.
Critics, and even the general public, have noted the absence of women in The Lord of the Rings, an absence so glaring that it could hardly be overlooked. Many feminist scholars have, as a result of ...this deficiency, denounced J.R.R. Tolkien, interpreting this lack of female characters as indicative of repressed misogyny. Others, however, have defended the author, pointing out that the female characters that do exist could be considered role models. This essay offers an alternative interpretation and contends that the absence of women in the novel, though potentially reducing its appeal to modern readers, reinforces one of its central motifs: the barrenness and infertility of Middle-earth. Overawed by Tolkien's landscape descriptions and the extent of his worldbuilding, readers have overlooked just how empty this world is, how rarely the Fellowship encounters settled districts or even lonely habitations. Replacing the farms, villages, and markets a reader would expect to encounter are vast stretches of wilderness and the ruins of forgotten nations. The almost total absence of women, of wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers, reinforces this sense of desolation, suggesting to the reader that Middle-earth has no future. The novel's few women actually contribute to this impression, for they are all, for different reasons, childless. Compared to the infertile and declining populations of elves, humans, and dwarves, Tolkien's orcs display a shocking and unnatural fecundity, reproducing--in a manner only hinted at--in enormous numbers. The novel's conclusion, which begins with Aragorn's long-desired wedding and ends with Sam's return to Rosie Cotton, generates a flurry of contented relationships, suggesting not misogyny on the author's part, but a veneration for sex, romance, and family life. That Frodo is unable to partake in any of these makes his sacrifice all the more poignant.
Abstract Introduction Attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection are two separate but correlated attitudes. Little is known about the two attitudes’ stability/volatility over ...time, despite the practical value of such knowledge. Objectives & method Using longitudinal survey data from 251 adults in a cross-lagged structural equation model, we assessed the degree of spontaneous (i.e., unprompted) change in the two attitudes. We also considered whether such change could provide evidence regarding causal direction; causation could go in either of two directions between the two attitudes, or it could even be bi-directional. Results We corroborated the substantive connection between attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection; however, the absence of change in the attitudes despite the passage of two years disallows reliable statements about causal direction. Conclusion It is possible to protect the environment by encouraging appreciation of nature, but change in attitude toward nature and attitude toward environmental protection may be difficult to achieve with mature individuals.
Pro-environmental education and the effectiveness of its methods are a necessity, decisive for preserving natural resources for successive generations. Educating proper attitudes towards the ...surrounding nature must be based on sound knowledge gained, supported by observation, experience and experiment. Teaching conducted at all levels environmental science should be based not on boxed knowledge, but on causal thinking skills. Establishing hypotheses and their verification, as well as the variety of methods of understanding the laws of nature, will influence the effective prevention of environmental degradation in the 21st century.
This study addresses two questions: (1) what visions of nature do lay people subscribe to? (2) to what extent do these visions reflect those of professional philosophers? Four philosophical images of ...the human-nature relationship were discussed with respondents; Master, Steward, Partner
and Participant. Respondents recognise these images, but prefer to construct their own. Elements of their images are (1) that humans are part of nature, but (2) that they are responsible for nature as well. This study indicates that empirical philosophy can contribute to the further development
of environmental philosophy. Through an empirical turn we can discover people's own voice.
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