Environmental Problems,Causes, and Solutions: An Open Question |
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| Authors: | Maya Negev Yaakov Garb Roni Biller Gonen Sagy Alon Tal |
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| Institution: | The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University , Israel |
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| Abstract: | In a national evaluation of environmental literacy in Israel, (Negev, Sagy, Garb, Salzberg, & Tal, 2008 Negev, M., Sagy, G., Garb, Y., Salzberg, A. and Tal, A. 2008. Evaluating the environmental literacy of Israeli elementary and high school students. Journal of Environmental Education, 39(2): 3–20. Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]), the authors included both multiple choice questions and open questions. In this article the authors describe the qualitative analysis of the answers to an open question regarding a local environmental problem. Most participants specified solid waste, open spaces, or air pollution as the main issues. The perceived solutions were generally at the governmental level, including planning, infrastructure, legislation, and enforcement. The authors describe relations in these responses between the problems, their causes and solutions, and between the quality of these answers and the general environmental literacy of the participants. The authors end with a discussion of the special contributions and potential of open-ended questions for environmental education research. |
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| Keywords: | environmental literacy Israeli national survey open question qualitative research |
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