Comparative study of a project-based pedagogical Environmental science on Israeli Participants and non – Israeli Participants attitudes and inquiry-based practice in Sustainability in Education

Abstract

Non-Israeli teachers and Israeli teachers (120 teachers in each group) participated in the research Environmental Responsible Behaviors, at Ofri International Training Center. Non-Israeli and Israeli participants' attitudes about water-related environmental issues were measured using the Survey of Environmental Attitudes and the Teachers Interviews Protocol. The differences in the level of participants' environmental knowledge are possibly related to the difference across all these subscales: verbal commitment, actual commitment, and affect. The non-Israeli participants who completed the Course Curriculum were all enrolled in environmental education classes and presented significantly more positive water-related environmental attitudes than Israeli participants, only 48 percent of whom were enrolled in environmental science classes. Participants' responses to the questions related to the Survey of Environmental Attitudes were very much correlated with the results of the t-tests and chi-square analysis. A proposed model has been presented in a pedagogical template and in a social template, which are related to an environmentally responsibility behavior.