Perception of sixth grade students of Primary Education in relation to their environmental attitudes
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Environmental educationAbstract
This research aims to learn about the perceptions of 101 students of the sixth year of Primary Education in three Galician schools about their environmental attitudes according to criteria such as: age, sex, studies and profession of fathers and mothers, environment of the center, as well as the ownership of the school. For this, a scale of the ROSE Project known as “The environment and me” has been used, consisting of 15 Likert items. The results obtained indicate significant differences in the sex variable, where the girls showed to have more proenvironmental attitudes than the boys. Significant differences were also found in the profession and studies of the mothers of the students analyzed.
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