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Female and male teachers’ pro-environmental behaviour, conceptions and attitudes towards nature and the environment do not differ: Ecofeminism put to the test
Karlstad University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4984-2415
University of Lyon, France.
Karlstad University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8735-2102
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2015 (English)In: Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, E-ISSN 1609-4913, Vol. 16, no 1, p. 1-25, article id 3Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Teachers’ pro-environmental behaviour, conceptions and attitudes towards nature and the environment were investigated using 47 questions from the BIOHEAD-Citizen questionnaire. The sample included 1,109 pre- and in-service teachers from Sweden and France. Analyses showed only few significant differences between female and male teachers. Forty-one questions were further analysed in terms of ecofeminism. Ecofeminism claims that women and men’s conceptions and attitudes towards nature and the environment differ, in the sense that women show higher awareness of environmental issues than men. Our study finds quite poor support for this claim and therefore challenges ecofeminism. This may have implications for environmental education and the perspectives of sustainable development at schools, as our results indicate that there is no reason to fear that male teachers are less engaged with environmental education than female teachers.

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Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of education , 2015. Vol. 16, no 1, p. 1-25, article id 3
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Attitudes, Ecofeminism, Education, Pro-environmental behaviour, Sustainable development, Teachers
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URN: urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-4491OAI: oai:DiVA.org:rkh-4491DiVA, id: diva2:1733933
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BIOHEADAvailable from: 2015-07-15 Created: 2023-02-03 Last updated: 2023-10-23Bibliographically approved

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