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T1 Changing Spanish preservice teachers' environmental attitudes with a citizen science program integrated in Environmental Education subject
A1 Díez Ojeda, María
A1 Queiruga Dios, Marián
A1 Queiruga Dios, Miguel Ángel
K1 Citizen science
K1 Environmental education
K1 Inventory of envirnomental attitudes
K1 Preservice teachers
K1 Educación
K1 Education
K1 Enseñanza
K1 Teaching
AB This research analyzes the effect of the implementation ofcitizen science activities in the Environmental Education(EE) subject program of the Degree in Primary Educationapplying Experiential Learning Theory. EnvironmentalAttitudes Inventory (EAI) was used to measure the changein environmental attitudes (EA) of 173 preservice teachersthrough a pre-test–post-test experimental design withouta control group. Participation in the training program sig-nificantly improved EA in the 12 dimensions defined in theEAI. Of the dimensions included in the second order factorPreservation, Enjoyment of nature reached the largest effectsize and Environmental movement activism is the one thatobtains the smallest effect size. With regard to Utilization,all dimensions presented a large effect size. No significantdifferences were found in EA based on the gender variable.It can be concluded that the incorporation of citizen sci-ence activities in the EE program significantly improves EA.
PB Wiley
SN 0141-8211
YR 2024
FD 2024-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10064
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10064
LA eng
NO Fundación Española para la Ciencia yla Tecnología - Ministerio de Cienciae Innovación; European Commission -Horizon Europe research and innovationprogramme; University of Burgos
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 31-ene-2025