ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY OF THE SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS

Year 2017, Volume: 7 , 183 - 186, 08.09.2017

Dagmar Ruskova Lubica Vaskova

Abstract

The
paper addresses the level of environmental and ecological literacy of the
students of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. The authors deal
with literacy in stated area in three synergetic dimensions: cognitive,
emotional and conative. In the cognitive level are mapped the general knowledge
of students regardless of the technical field of their studies. They analyze
students' views on teaching at the Technical University from the viewpoint of
the need for clarity and acceptability of the effect of technology on the
environment not only "here and now", but with a time lag of several
years or decades. By the Semantic differential method, they try to find the
answer to the question about the quality of students' attitudes to the issue of
development and environmental protection. They identify explicit and implicit
factors (family, society, training and education process or teacher-student
interaction, issues of pattern) which are dominant in the formation of positive
and negative attitudes of students of university of technology to the creation
and protection of the environment. Conative dimension corresponds to measure of
subjective activities of students in this area and refers to the relationship
between power factor, evaluation factor and the activity factor in the semantic
differential.

Keywords

Environmental education, ecological literacy, cognitive dimension, emotional dimension

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