Option or necessity: Role of environmental education as transformative change agent
- Title
- Option or necessity: Role of environmental education as transformative change agent
- Creator
- Sharma N.; Pa A.; Upadhyay D.
- Description
- There is a consensus around the importance of environmental education in mitigating the ill effects of environmental problems and preserving the natural environment and promoting green behaviours. The present paper studies the role of environmental education based on transformative learning theory. It intends to present and test a model proposal using sequential mediation analysis of several constructs as the Environmental Education Support (EES) and Volunteer Attitude (VA). A quantitative study was carried out by using data obtained through online questionnaires from several Indian and Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. A multivariate statistical method was employed to analyse the data by using partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results demonstrated that environmental education positively influences students environmental concern, willingness to be environmentally friendly, and volunteer attitude. As a novelty, it reports that environmental education beliefs, concern for the environment and willingness to be environmentally friendly sequentially mediate the relationship between environmental education support and volunteering attitude. 2023 Elsevier Ltd
- Source
- Evaluation and Program Planning, Vol-97
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- Environmental concern; Environmental education; Pro-environmental behaviour; Structural equation modelling; Sustainability; Transformative learning; University
- Coverage
- Sharma N., International Management Institute New Delhi, India; Pa A., Universidade da Beira Interior, NECE-UBI (Research Centre for Business Sciences), R. Marqu D'ila e Bolama, Covilh 6201-001, Portugal; Upadhyay D., School of Commerce, Finance & Accountancy, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 1497189; PubMed ID: 36716606; CODEN: EPPLD
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Sharma N.; Pa A.; Upadhyay D., “Option or necessity: Role of environmental education as transformative change agent,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed March 17, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/14265.