Impact of Sustainable school design on primary school children's environmental attitude and behavior

Izadpanahi, Parisa; Elkadi, Hisham

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Open access via publisher

Authors

Izadpanahi, Parisa

Elkadi, Hisham

Date

2013

Type

Conference Paper

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Citation

Izadpanahi, P. and Elkadi, H. 2013. Impact of Sustainable school design on primary school children's environmental attitude and behaviour, in Proceedings of the NAAEE Conference, Oct 9-12 2013, Baltimore, Maryland: North American Association for Environmental Education.

Source Conference

NAAEE 2013

Additional URLs

https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/naaee/naaee13/

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

School

School of Design and the Built Environment

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75986

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This paper argues whether primary school children‘s environmental attitude and behavior is correlated with the sustainable design of their schools. 481 students were selected randomly from 3claimed sustainable designed and 3 conventional primary schools in Victoria, Australia. Data was collected through interactive keypads in groups of 50 each time. Analysis revealed that children, who are educated in claimed sustainable designed schools, possess higher proenvironmental attitude and more frequently behave environmental friendly compared to those in the schools with conventional architectural design. The paper also shows different environmental attitude and behavior based on gender differences.