Development of environmental hope in elementary school students through an educational environmental program on climate change


Published: Sep 16, 2024
Keywords:
Climate Change Education Sense of Environmental Hope Participatory Environmental Action Program
Rafaella Mallouppa
Stella Petrou
Konstantinos Korfiatis
Abstract

In this paper, we present and discuss our results from the implementation of an educational environmental program aimed at developing the sense of environmental hope for dealing with climate change in elementary school students. In the 1st stage of the program, students participated in educational activities through which they learned about the causes and consequences of climate change, conducted experiments to study the greenhouse effect, took action to calculate their school's carbon footprint, and sought ways to reduce it. In the 2nd stage, the implementation of collective actions in their school stimulated their sense of hope and self-efficacy to alleviate this local and international problem.

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