caa a22 4500 388050640 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0814062600001555 doi S0814062600001555 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0814062600001555 Young People and the Environment in Australia: Beliefs, Knowledge, Commitment and Educational Implications [Elektronische Daten] There is a paucity of research in Australia on the nature of young people's attitudes, knowledge and actions. This paper reports on the findings from one such study of Australian high school students. The research was based on a survey of 5688 students from Melbourne and Brisbane. These young people identified protection of the environment as the most important problem In Australia and strongly supported the belief systems characteristic of an ‘environmental paradigm'. Despite this, the majority displayed relatively low levels of knowledge of key environmental concepts, and were involved in little environmental action-taking outside of household activities. Differences are reported between: students from Melbourne and Brisbane; girls and boys; high performing and general schools; and teachers and students. The paper concludes with a discussion of some implications for environmental education in Australia. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Connell Sharon Griffith University, Brisbane Fien John Griffith University, Brisbane Sykes Helen University of Melbourne Yencken David University of Melbourne Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 39-48 0814-0626 14<39 1998 14 AEE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600001555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0814062600001555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Connell Sharon Griffith University, Brisbane NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fien John Griffith University, Brisbane NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sykes Helen University of Melbourne NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yencken David University of Melbourne NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Australian Journal of Environmental Education Cambridge University Press 14(1998), 39-48 0814-0626 14<39 1998 14 AEE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 388050640 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge