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  title info:
    title: Perceptions of preservice secondary school teachers in Taiwan, the Republic of China, concerning environmental education
  name:
    name part: Yang, Jing-Shin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Adams, Clark E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Householder, Daniel L.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Stuessy, Carol L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Young-Hawkins, La Verne H.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 195 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: The goal of this study was to provide a base for policy and decision making processes affecting secondary teacher education in environmental education in Taiwan, the Republic of China (R.O.C.). This study was designed to collect information from prospective secondary school teachers at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taiwan, R.O.C. regarding: (a) their attitudes toward major environmental concerns, including ecological and environmental relationships, resource conservation and management, population issues, pollution prevention and control, and industrial and technological impact; (b) their perceptions of the environmental education that they will be able to and plan to implement when they begin teaching; and (c) the influence of gender, majors, and grade levels upon students' attitudes toward the environment and perceptions of environmental education. The sample was comprised of 290 senior student teachers majoring in industrial arts, science, and education, and 100 freshmen, sophomores, and juniors majoring in industrial arts at NTNU in fall semester, 1992. A three-part questionnaire was developed by the researcher, who administered the instrument to the subjects at NTNU. The findings indicated that preservice secondary school teachers had substantial concern for environmental issues. The education majors had more positive attitudes than the science and industrial arts majors. Females' attitudes toward environment were more positive than males' attitudes. The views addressed by freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and seniors in the industrial arts major were similar. The overall measures of preservice secondary school teachers' perceptions of environmental education did not differ significantly. There was a positive correlation between the preservice secondary school teachers' views toward the environment and environmental education. Pollution was perceived to be the most serious environmental problem by all three groups. The perceptions of readiness to teac…
  note: by Jing-Shin Yang.
  note: "Major subject: Industrial Education."
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ch---
  subject:
    topic: Environmental education
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
    geographic: Taiwan
  subject:
    topic: High school teachers
    topic: Training of
    geographic: Taiwan
  subject:
    topic: High school teachers
    geographic: Taiwan
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Major industrial education
  subject:
    topic: Environmental education
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    topic: High school teachers
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: High school teachers
    topic: Training of
  subject:
    geographic: Taiwan
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1473053
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 950405
    record change date: 20220103134942.0
    record identifier: in00001227151
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng