Students‘ Environmental Citizenship in Technological University, November 2020 - January 2021

The purpose of the study: to evaluate a case of an educational intervention designed to foster environmental citizenship among undergraduate students of a technological university. Major investigated questions: firstly, the respondents were asked which of the optional KTU alternative study programmes they were studying. A block of questions asked whether they had ever been involved in different environmental organisations, associations or groups outside school or university. They were asked whether they often sort glass, cans, plastics, newspapers or similar items for recycling and whether they often avoid buying certain products for environmental reasons. A block of questions was used to investigate knowledge of environmental problems and solutions and social activities before entering university. It asked about the university modules in which the respondents had studied environmental values, problems/behaviour and citizenship-related topics. In the following blocks of questions, respondents assessed the importance of civic and political participation and their competences in relation to raising environmental issues in the public sphere. They also assessed statements about humanity's relationship with the environment and wanted to know about their intentions to act in the future as students, based on environmental citizenship at university, and in society as citizens in the future, after graduation. A further block of questions assessed respondents' general environmental attitudes. At the end of the questionnaire, respondents were asked whether they had lived in an urban or rural environment when they were children (aged 6-14) and young people (aged 15-18). Accordingly, they were asked how often they had had experiences in nature and how positive they were about these experiences. Finally, they were asked to describe their relationship with nature and to indicate the extent to which the respondents were interested in nature when they were children (6-14 years) and young people (15-18 years). Socio-demographic characteristics: field of study, gender, age, mother tongue, most spoken language, type of accommodation, social class, working status. This study is partly based on work from Cost Action ENEC – European Network for Environmental Citizenship (CA16229) supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

本研究旨在评估一项旨在培养技术大学本科生环境公民意识的干预措施。主要研究问题包括：首先，调查对象被询问他们正在学习哪一项可选的KTU替代学习项目。一系列问题旨在了解他们是否曾参与过学校或大学之外的不同环境组织、协会或团体。他们还被询问是否经常对玻璃、罐头、塑料、报纸或其他类似物品进行分类回收，以及是否出于环保原因经常避免购买某些产品。另一系列问题用于调查学生在进入大学之前对环境问题和解决方案以及社会活动的了解。这些问题涉及调查对象学习过哪些大学课程，这些课程探讨了环境价值观、问题/行为以及与公民身份相关的话题。在随后的问题块中，调查对象评估了他们在公共领域中提出环境问题的公民和政治参与的重视程度及其相关能力。他们还对关于人类与环境关系的陈述进行了评估，并了解他们作为学生基于大学环境公民意识在未来的行动意图，以及作为未来公民在社会中的行动意图。进一步的问题块评估了调查对象的一般环境态度。在问卷的最后，调查对象被问及他们在儿童时期（6-14岁）和青年时期（15-18岁）是否生活在城市或乡村环境中，并据此询问他们与自然互动的频率及其对这些体验的积极程度。最后，他们被要求描述自己与自然的关系，并指出调查对象在儿童时期（6-14岁）和青年时期（15-18岁）对自然的兴趣程度。社会人口统计特征包括研究领域、性别、年龄、母语、最常使用的语言、住宿类型、社会阶层和工作状况。本研究部分基于由COST（欧洲科学技术合作）支持的Cost Action ENEC – 欧洲环境公民网络（CA16229）的工作。