This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding a pre-test and post-test study of environmental attitudes in children before and after reading a particular collection of eco-stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main aim of this research was to empirically establish whether reading literature with an explicit eco-pedagogical dimension would improve children\u2019s environmental attitudes. Four eco-stories were read to children over a 3\u20134-week period in a school environment. The experiment was performed with 5th and 6th graders (mostly 11-year-old children), in two eco-schools and two regular schools in wider Split area. It was presumed that results would differ due to differing levels of previous ecoeducation. Children read stories from the collection Fairy-Tales for a Better Tomorrow (2010) in which popular children\u2019s literary and media texts are reworked in an environmentally aware fashion. To obtain the answers to the posed questions, a mix of instruments was used: quantitative pre- and post-reading questionnaires, openended comprehension questions in story response sheets, as well as autonomous creation of children\u2019s own stories. Eco-school students were found to have more positive environmental attitudes overall, but no difference of attitudes was shown before vs. after reading the eco-stories across both groups of schools. Results of this study are compared to a recent study with opposing results (Ebersbach and Brandenburger 2020), whereas some suggestive trends emerging from the present study are discussed. Most notably, we have arrived at the trend suggesting a correlation of children\u2019s previous environmental education and personal experience to the way they read and respond to eco-stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding a pre-test and post-test study of environmental attitudes in children before and after reading a particular collection of eco-stories. The main aim of this research was to empirically establish whether reading literature with an explicit eco-pedagogical dimension would improve children\u2019s environmental attitudes. Four eco-stories were read …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":236,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[117,121,119,120,118],"class_list":["post-284","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-childrens-literature","tag-empirical-ecocriticism","tag-environmental-attitudes","tag-environmental-education","tag-environmental-values"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.somevps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}