Analysing the awareness of vulnerable young people on the future of Climate Change
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Rev_Eureka_ensen_divulg_cienc.2024.v21.i1.1502Info
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- Julia Gracia Ordóñez (ES) Departamento de Didácticas Específicas. Universidad de Córdoba. España. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1332-515X
- Jorge Alcántara Manzanares (ES) Departamento de Didácticas Específicas. Universidad de Córdoba. España. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2482-1615
- Jerónimo Torres Porras (ES) Departamento de Didácticas Específicas. Universidad de Córdoba. España. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-7870
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Research argues that young people may perceive their future negatively and view themselves as not having the power to make a change. However, a new generation of young people are moving towards addressing climate change and recognising the opportunities for sustainability and social justice. The goal was to analyse the level of awareness between different groups of teenagers from vulnerable areas (a hard-to-reach population in research) in relation to the awareness of climate change. As such, this study analyses the degree of climate change awareness amongst students from three secondary schools located in vulnerable areas of Europe following the implementation of an eTwinning project on climate change during the Covid-19 pandemic. We followed a descriptive non-experimental design using a validated questionnaire to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the levels of climate change awareness of the students? and (2) Is it possible to identify different groups according to their level of awareness? The questionnaire was completed by 238 students: 162 Czech students, 34 Greek students and 42 Italian students. The results identify four different groups of students with diverse levels of awareness, from the most concerned to the barely worried, and shows that these schools have the potential to improve awareness. It is argued that these issues should be promoted in schools in order to improve student awareness of climate change and their perception of a brighter future in which they develop a sense of agency with regards to social change, participation in society, and social justice.
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