Thieroff B, Schubert JC, Gölitz D (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
DOI: 10.1007/s40573-021-00125-2
Climate change is one of the major challenges of the 21st century and is considered a highly relevant topic in geography education due to its structure. At the same time, interest is one of the central subject-specific preconditions for content learning. In relation to climate change, however, students’ interest has not been addressed enough in research so far. The presented study therefore developed a questionnaire for the gathering of context-related students’ interest in climate change based on subject-specific and didactic considerations. In the course of a factor analysis, five clear factors emerged, each with appropriate to highly reliable values. At the level of the teaching contexts, the everyday-life oriented and individually shaped contexts Action and Spatial Proximity were found to be particularly important determinants of the students’ interest. Furthermore, the context Measurement/Methodology emerged. With regard to the content structure of the topic, the factors Global Causes and Consequences could be identified as factors leading to interest. It could be shown that the interest in climate change is mainly determined by the living environment and the contexts of students’ everyday life (e.g. the immediate vicinity/home area). The content-related facets of the topic play a subordinate role - at least as far as the mentioned contexts are concerned. Hence, a highly reliable method for determining students’ interest in climate change at the end of secondary school is available, which allows a differentiation of the current state of research and an interest-based assessment of the effectiveness of teaching interventions.
APA:
Thieroff, B., Schubert, J.C., & Gölitz, D. (2021). Entwicklung und empirische Validierung eines kontextorientierten Skalenmodells zur Erfassung des Interesses von Schüler*innen am Klimawandel. Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40573-021-00125-2
MLA:
Thieroff, Bernhard, Jan Christoph Schubert, and Dietmar Gölitz. "Entwicklung und empirische Validierung eines kontextorientierten Skalenmodells zur Erfassung des Interesses von Schüler*innen am Klimawandel." Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften (2021).
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