The Level of Awareness on Climate Change of Pre-Service Teachers in One State University in the Philippines
Keywords:
climate change, pre-service teachers, climate change awarenessAbstract
Climate change is recognized as one of the primary socio-scientific issues that teachers of all ages could choose to resolve, given its contentious and political nature. Indeed, raising awareness helps amplify the need to deal with the issue of climate change. The study's objective was to evaluate the extent/level of awareness on climate change of a sample of pre-service teachers from a constituent campus of one state college within the Philippines. The study utilized a descriptive research design and accumulated information from the respondents using an online survey. It utilized 300 pre-service teachers of Batangas State University ARASOF-Nasugbu from different year levels and sections. The study revealed that they are more female and first-year respondents taking teacher education programs. Pre-service teachers are extremely aware of climate change. Most of them strongly agree that climate change requires immediate action and are extremely aware of the factors that affect the level of their awareness. They believe that documentary videos on YouTube was the main factor that affects their awareness. The majority agreed with the different medium-that were used to enhance their awareness of climate change and marks the internet as the main medium in gaining climate change awareness.
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