Evaluating the effects of environmental education programming on connectedness to nature

By Julie Ernst, Stefan Theimer. 2011

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Experiencing nature in children's summer camps: Affective, cognitive and behavioural consequences (2013, background): “There is empirical evidence showing that EE programs promote positive changes in children’s ecological worldviews (Evans et al., 2007), environmental attitudes (Ernst & Theimer, 2011) and environmental knowledge (Powers, 2004).”
Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences (2018, background): “For example, Ernst and Theimer (2011) investigated the effect of participation in seven varied forms of environmental education on students’ levels of nature connection in the United States.”
Children’s Restorative Experiences and Self-Reported Environmental Behaviors (2015, background): “Some EE programs have been demonstrated to improve children’s reported environmental behavior (Stern, Powell, & Ardoin, 2008), whereas others have failed to do so (Ernst & Theimer, 2011).”
The Effect of a Nature-Based Environmental Education Program on Children’s Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Randomized Experiment with Primary Schools (2020, background): “There is empirical evidence showing that participation in EE programs promotes positive changes in children’s EA [15,31], connectedness to nature [13], and environmental knowledge [32].”
Into the Wild: The Effects of 360° Immersive Nature Videos on Feelings of Commitment to the Environment (2019, background): “While these results are promising, and contact with nature has been identified as one of the best interventions (e.g. Cleary et al., 2018; Ernst & Theimer, 2011), direct contact is not always possible (e.g. White et al., 2018).”
Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, methodology): “Both instruments draw on Mayer and Frantz's [13] approach: the CNI's 4-factor trait instrument was influenced by their definition of CWN along with other studies on environmental attitudes , while the NCI's 11-item scale addressed the same areas underlying Mayer and Frantz's CNS [13] with additional”
Teaching Methods in Biology Education and Sustainability Education Including Outdoor Education for Promoting Sustainability--A Literature Review. (2016, background): “, connectedness to nature [64,65], positive environmental attitudes [66,67], and environmental consciousness [22,68].”
Promoting connectedness with nature through environmental education (2013, background): “Wells and Lekies 2006 ; Ernst and Theimer 2011 ).”
Effects of a 1-day environmental education intervention on environmental attitudes and connectedness with nature (2013, background): “Connectedness to nature should, therefore, be one of the aims of EE (Ernst and Theimer 2011).”
Connecting students to nature – how intensity of nature experience and student age influence the success of outdoor education programs (2017, methodology): “No positive effects on sixth graders’ connectedness to nature could be evoked through a one-day intervention (Kossack and Bogner 2012) whereas longer interventions up to four days within a month achieved positive effects (ernst and Theimer 2011).”
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective (2020, background): “For example, an emphasis solely on knowledge (not a pathway) as a means to reconnect with nature has been tested (Ernst and Theimer 2011; Mace et al. 2012).”
Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects (2018, background): “Several studies indicate that outdoor environmental education can positively affect the development of environmental attitudes (Ernst and Theimer 2011; Harding 2016; Liddicoat and Krasny 2013).”