Development of environmental attitudes from the perspective of teachers from the second level of primary schools
Abstract
This paper summarizes the results of original research focused on the issue of environmental attitudes. It concerns qualitative research which has been conducted by semi-structured interviews with 10 respondents (teachers) who are environment education coordinators.
Questions were focused on their understanding of the concepts of attitude, beliefs, values and interest. It also ascertained whether respondents considered their teaching systematically focused on the development of environmental attitudes and how they develop the attitudes of pupils.
Based on an analysis of the interviews the respondents can be divided into several groups according to several criteria (primarily whether they think about attitudes at a theoretical level and to what extent their plans are put into practice). What impact the introduction of the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education had on the teaching of attitudes was also observed.
Most respondents believe that the introduction of this document does not significantly affect the development of attitudes in teaching. The transfer of attitudes between pupils and their parents was also observed in which the predominant transmission of attitudes was from pupils to their parents.