Publication details
Do Environmental Education School Coordinators Have a Mission?
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/dcse.2016.7.issue-1/dcse-2016-0002/dcse-2016-0002.xml?format=INT |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dcse-2016-0002 |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | environmental education; EE school coordinators; teacher training; teachers’ self-efficacy |
| Description | Teachers who are specialized in environmental education (environmental education school coordinators1) can play an important role in empowering students to shape a sustainable future. In this study, the authors examined a group of Czech environmental education school coordinators. The authors aimed to clarify how they interpret their role at their respective schools, how they perceive their self-efficacy, and what they observe as benefits and barriers to their work as a coordinator. They conducted a qualitative study with focus groups and completed individual in-depth interviews with the coordinators. The results suggest that the coordinators view their work as a mission. The ultimate goal of this mission is to change the children’s behavior to make it more pro-environmental, and, at the same time, to establish this effort as a commitment of the whole school. The authors identified different forms of mission, described development in time and connected them with the perceived self-efficacy of the coordinators. |
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