Assessing children's environmental worldviews: Modifying and validating the new ecological paradigm scale for use with children

Journal of Environmental Education

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 3-13

  Manoli, Constantinos C ^a   Johnson, Bruce ^a,b,c   Dunlap, Riley E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Earth Education Research and Evaluation Team   (United States)

^c Institute For Earth Education

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth education; Environmental worldviews; New ecological paradigm scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749039092     PISSN: 00958964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEE.38.4.3-13     Document Type: Article

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