Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 357-370Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2017.1310083
Keywords
education for sustainable development; effect studies; gender gap; socialization processes; sustainability consciousness
Funding
- Swedish Research Council [B0589701]
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This study extends previous environmental education research on gender differences by investigating the gender gap between boys' and girls' sustainability consciousness. The issue of Whether the gender gap in environmental education can be identified also in sustainability education is addressed It has been suggested: that,Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a teaching approach that could :play a key role in diminishing the gender gap. However, the possible genderspecific effect of an ESD-oriented teaching approach is empirically untested. A survey instrument was used to detect the hypothesized gender gap in students' sustainability consciousness on a sample of 2413 Swedish Students aged 12-19. Findings reveal a gender gap in students' sustainability consciousness. The gender gap increases throughout the age span and is amplified in ESD-oriented schools.
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