TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental problems, causes, and solutions
T2 - An open question
AU - Negev, Maya
AU - Garb, Yaakov
AU - Biller, Roni
AU - Sagy, Gonen
AU - Tal, Alon
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Lisa and Maury Friedman Foundation and the GM Foundation for supporting this research, which was initiated at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and supported by Brown University’s Middle East Environmental Futures project. We express our appreciation to the authors of the Middle School Environmental Literacy Instrument, the Secondary School Environmental Literacy Instrument, and the National Environmental Literacy Assessment Project. Particularly, we are grateful for the ongoing advice of Dr. Tom Marcinkowski of the Florida Institute of Technology and Dr. Harold Hungerford of the Southern Illinois University.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - In a national evaluation of environmental literacy in Israel, (Negev, Sagy, Garb, Salzberg, & Tal, 2008), 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.
AB - In a national evaluation of environmental literacy in Israel, (Negev, Sagy, Garb, Salzberg, & Tal, 2008), 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.
KW - Environmental literacy
KW - Israeli national survey
KW - Open question
KW - Qualitative research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949543666&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00958960903295258
DO - 10.1080/00958960903295258
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77949543666
SN - 0095-8964
VL - 41
SP - 101
EP - 115
JO - Journal of Environmental Education
JF - Journal of Environmental Education
IS - 2
ER -
