Ecopsychology Elements in Environmental Education as to Strengthen Attitudes towards the environment

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Tiwi Kamidin
Azizi Muda
Samsilah Roslan
Mohd Majid Konting

Abstract

This study assesses the effects of inception ecopsychology elements in an environmental education as to strengthen the attitudes towards the environment among teacher trainees based on the affective learning domain.  A mixed method design was used to evaluate the effects of the inception ecopsychology element in environmental education. Initial findings showed that there was a significant difference on attitudes towards environment between experimental and control groups. Qualitative findings also showed that the respondents from the experimental groups believed they were considered to have changed after participating in the class. Findings from this study suggested that the implementation of environmental education should incept ecopsychology elements.

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Kamidin, T., Muda, A., Roslan, S., & Konting, M. M. (2016). Ecopsychology Elements in Environmental Education as to Strengthen Attitudes towards the environment. Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies, 1(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v1i1.168

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