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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.09.009
	Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour
	Otto S.; Pensini P.
发表日期	2017
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	47
英文摘要	The promotion of environmental knowledge is viewed as a fundamental component of environmental education and a necessary prerequisite to ecological behaviour; however, it has little effect on actual behaviour. Nature-based environmental education, which combines the acquisition of environmental knowledge with the promotion of an intrinsic driver, namely connectedness to nature, is proposed as a holistic approach to increase ecological behaviour. This paper evaluates the effect of participation in nature-based environmental education in 4th to 6th graders (N = 255). As expected, increased participation in nature-based environmental education was related to greater ecological behaviour, mediated by increases in environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature. While both factors were similarly predicted by participation in nature-based environmental education, connectedness to nature explained 69% and environmental knowledge 2% of the variance in ecological behaviour. However, the design of our data do not evidence the causality of these relations, which are solely based on theoretical assumptions supported by literature. Nevertheless, the importance of fostering both environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature as complementary drivers of ecological behaviour, as offered by nature-based environmental education, should be researched further as a highly promising approach to fostering ecologically-motivated individuals. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Connectedness to nature; Ecological behaviour; Environmental education; Environmental knowledge
学科领域	connectivity; environmental education; holistic approach; knowledge; literature review
语种	英语
scopus关键词	connectivity; environmental education; holistic approach; knowledge; literature review
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117215
作者单位	Otto von Guericke University, Institute of Psychology, P.O. Box 4120, Magdeburg, 39016, Germany; Friedrich Schiller University, Department of Social Psychology, Humboldtstrasse 26, Jena, 07743, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Otto S.,Pensini P.. Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour[J],2017,47.
APA	Otto S.,&Pensini P..(2017).Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour.Global Environmental Change,47.
MLA	Otto S.,et al."Nature-based environmental education of children: Environmental knowledge and connectedness to nature, together, are related to ecological behaviour".Global Environmental Change 47(2017).