Module 15

OHT 4

Behaviour Flow Chart: Major and Minor Variables involved in Environmental Citizenship Behaviour
(after Hungerford and Volk (1991).

Table 1: Critical Education Components

It appears that we can maximize opportunities to change learner behavior in the environmental dimension if educational agencies will:

1. teach environmentally significant ecological concepts and the environmental interrelationships that exist within and between these concepts

2. provide carefully designed and in-depth opportunities for learners to achieve some level of environmental sensitivity that will promote a desire to behave in appropriate ways

3. provide a curriculum that will result in an in-depth knowledge of issues

4. provide a curriculum that will teach learners the skills of issue analysis and investigation as well as provide the time needed for the application of these skills

5. provide a curriculum that will teach learners the citizenship skills needed for issue remediation as well as the time needed for the application of these skills

6. provide an instructional setting that increases learners' expectancy of reinforcement for acting in responsible ways, i.e., attempt to develop an internal locus of control in learners.