Middle School Students' Environmental Attitudes and Informal Reasoning Regarding an Environmental Socioscientific Issue

Autor/inn/en	Atabey, Nejla; Topcu, Mustafa Sami
Titel	Middle School Students' Environmental Attitudes and Informal Reasoning Regarding an Environmental Socioscientific Issue
Quelle	In: International Journal of Progressive Education, 16 (2020) 5, S.90-105 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Atabey, Nejla)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-5210
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; Grade 8; Student Attitudes; Thinking Skills; Decision Making; Emotional Response; Intuition; Science and Society; Ecology; Conservation (Environment); Public Schools; Foreign Countries; Attitude Change; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Schülerverhalten; Denkfähigkeit; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Emotionales Verhalten; Ökologie; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ausland; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Türkei
Abstract	The purpose of the current study is to reveal students' environmental attitudes, their informal reasoning, and how their informal reasoning on a socioscientific issue changes depending on their environmental attitudes. The study participants were 104 eighth-grade students. A form consisting of a scenario and open-ended questions was used as data collection tools. During the analysis of the collected data, the descriptive analysis method and descriptive statistics were used. The findings revealed that the majority of the students had an anthropocentric attitude toward the socioscientific issue and largely presented rationalistic reasoning. Moreover, while the students with an anthropocentric attitude used rational reasoning more, students with an ecocentric attitude presented rationalistic, emotional, and rationalistic-emotional reasoning. Considering the findings of the current study, suggestions are made to develop students' emotional reasoning as well as rational reasoning by means of training students to have an ecocentric attitude. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01