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pp. 417-424 | Article Number: ijese.2019.034
Published Online: August 29, 2019
Abstract
The environmental crisis needs to be challenged by fundamental socio-ecological transformation. Contemporary science education programs focus on influential factors like nature experience, emotional bonds with the natural environment and understanding of nature trying to promote pro-environmental behaviors amongst young people. In order to compare two contrasting countries this quantitative survey was carried out with the participation of 836 young people in Germany, and 846 in South Africa aged 12 to 19 (M = 14.68, SD = .52). We found that young South Africans spent more time in nature together with their schools and are more emotionally related to their natural world. In conclusion, the human-nature relationships amongst young people in both countries can be described as inconsistent, detached and disturbed.
Keywords: connectedness to nature, environmental identity, human-nature relationships, nature experience, pro-environmental behaviors, quantitative survey, understanding of nature
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