Promoting pro-environmental behavior: community environmental engagement at home
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hirshkorn, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lagace, Amanda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-01T16:19:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-01T16:19:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-03-01T15:01:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The primary goal of environmental education is to promote pro-environmental behavior. Unfortunately, this goal is essentially absent from environmental education curriculums as the majority of their topics focus on global environmental issues. Environmental education is usually learned from a textbook and inside a classroom. Unintentionally, this promotes a desensitization and disengagement from the environment for students. The literature shows there are many variables and a variety of contexts that contribute to promote pro-environmental behavior. The two main variables of focus chosen for this research were internal locus of control (ILOC) and environmental agency (EA). A case study was conducted in a rural New Brunswick public high school. A two-week unit that centered around an important community watershed was carefully created in order to promote ILOC and EA. Community-based learning was the vehicle in which the curriculum and opportunities for students to develop ILOC and EA were delivered in hopes of promoting pro-environmental behavior. The study concluded that ILOC and EA increased within students in this particular context, as elements of these dispositions were visible within the data; however, evidence of the students engaging in new proenvironmental behaviors (PEB) was not evident. | |
| dc.description.copyright | © Amanda Lagace, 2016 | |
| dc.format | text/xml | |
| dc.format.extent | xi, 136 pages | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/13480 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_CA | |
| dc.publisher | University of New Brunswick | |
| dc.rights | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |
| dc.subject.discipline | Education | |
| dc.title | Promoting pro-environmental behavior: community environmental engagement at home | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Education | |
| thesis.degree.fullname | Master of Education | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of New Brunswick | |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | M.Ed. |
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