ERIC Number: EJ1285108
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-4622
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Shaping Pro-Environmental Attitudes among Public Service Trainees: An Experimental Study
Environmental Education Research, v27 n2 p295-311 2021
Public managers play a critical role in making and implementing environmental policies. Pre-service training provides an important opportunity to influence the environmental attitudes of public managers. Nevertheless, we know little about this influence. This research employs a classic experiment to examine the effects of a pre-service training program that exposes trainees to ecological decline in a national training program in Taiwan. There are three major findings. First, exposure to ecological decline increases trainees' pro-environmental attitudes. Second, visual presentation modes sustain the effect. Third, trainees highly motivated for public services demonstrate greater and longer-lasting pro-environmental attitudes due to ecological exposure. These findings can be used to develop and improve environmental education programs in governments.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Public Service Occupations, Positive Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Student Experience, Visual Aids, Intervention, Pretests Posttests
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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