The Current Form of Environmental Education and its Potential in Influencing the Environmental Awareness of Students
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study that examined the environmental education of high school students, with a focus on examining the factors that influence environmentally friendly beha-vior. The research uses a model based on the TPB method (Theory of Planned Behavior) and the NAM method (Norm Activation Model).
The analysis shows that a significant number of students consider current environmental education to be insufficient. The Internet and social networks become the most common source of information for students in the field of environmental education.
Accor-ding to the results of the research, the most important determinants of environmentally friendly behavior are the attitudes and personal norms of the respondents, which can be influenced in the framework of environmental education by creating awareness of the consequences of behavior. Due to the different results of individual foreign studies with a similar focus, the article also considers the importance of local research in the field of environmental education development, which is still in its infancy in the field of analysis of the determinants of environmental awareness.