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If It Doesn't Directly Affect You, You Don't Think About It’: a qualitative study of young people's environmental attitudes in two Australian cities
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Connell, Sharon Fien, John Francis Lee, Jenny Sykes, Helen Yencken, David |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY This article presents a range of findbigs from a qualitative study of the environmental attitudes of young people across their final 2 years of secondary school in the two Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane. Focus groups comprising the same 16‐ to 17‐year‐old students in 12 schools were interviewed twice, 12 months apart. Several minor differences were found in the attitudes of students between the two cities, but these pale alongside the common, indeed, overwhelming feelings of environmental concern mixed with frustration, cynicism and action paralysis that were reported. The ambivalence towards the environment that results, together with the individualistic frameworks for explaining environmental issues that were displayed, point to areas for renewed curriculum attention in secondary schools and directions for future research. |
| Starting Page | 95 |
| Ending Page | 113 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/1350462990050106 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-library/climate-communications/youth-climate-amp-social-media/Connell-et-al.-2006.-Young-People's-Environmental-Attitudes..pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/1350462990050106 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
