Promoting Environmental Sustainability Among OUM Adult Learners
In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality Education, Open University Malaysia strives to promote environmental education and create environmental awareness through its lifelong learning framework. The university has embedded environmental component in one of topi...
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1310/1/library-document-1310.pdf https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1310/ |
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| Summary: | In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality
Education, Open University Malaysia strives to promote environmental
education and create environmental awareness through its lifelong learning
framework. The university has embedded environmental component in one of
topic with one of its university courses that is offered in the first semester. Topic
10 within the OUMH1603 course on Learning Skills for 21st Century is titled
Environment and Us. This study aims to measure the level of environmental
literacy and examine the correlation between learner’s disposition and learning
experience among learners who have taken the course. The 2011 Framework
for Assessing Environmental Literacy by the North American Association for
Environmental Education was adopted for this purpose. Data were collected
through online survey in two phases. The level of knowledge of the OUM
students were proven to be high, ranging from an average means score of 3.86
to 4.33. The second part of the analysis shows that there is also a significant
strong correlation between students’ learning experience of the course (3.99 to
4.44) and their dispositions as well as their willingness to volunteer in
environmental projects. The findings suggest that embedding environmental
education within a widely distributed formal education framework can
contribute positively to the effort to create environmentally literate adults. |
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