RT Journal Article
T1 Social representations of climate change in a group of college students from the University of Santiago de Compostela: common culture vs. scientific culture
A1 García Vinuesa, Antonio
A1 Meira Cartea, Pablo
A1 Arto Blanco, Mónica
A1 Bisquert i Pérez, Kylyan Marc
K1 Climate change
K1 Higher education
K1 College students
K1 Environmental education
AB College students are a sector of the population that is called to play afundamental role in the future societies. This responsibility with and for society cannot obviate humanity's main challenge nowadays, the anthropogenic climate change. To this end, it is necessary to understand the climatic problem in all its dimensions, in order to propose and accept strategies and measures of adaptation and mitigation. In this paper we present a research on college students of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (N = 644). A closed end questionnaire was used to explore college students´ climate literacy level. Outcomes were compared according to academic discipline and year course. There were statistically significant differences in the distributions of responses (ANOVA) between areas of knowledge and of university degree fields. Nevertheless, in the case of comparing 1st year students with 4th year students there is not statistical significance. Outcomes suggest that most of the information with which college students build their representation of climate change comes from their stage in secondary education and experiences out of the educational system.
PB Institute for Environmental Learning. Faculty of Education. Simon Fraser University
SN 1925-6752
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20342
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20342
LA eng
NO García-Vinuesa, A., Cartea, P. Á. M., Blanco, M. A., & Bisquert, K. M. (2019). Social representations of climate change in a group of college students from the University of Santiago de Compostela: common culture vs. scientific culture. Eco-thinking, 1.
NO Trabajo enmarcado dentro del proyecto Resclima: respuestas educativas y sociales al cambio climático
NO This work was developed in the framework of the Resclima project, financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain (ref. EDU2015-63572-P) and with ERDF funds from the European Union
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026