Nigerian teachers' self‐reported climate science literacy and expressed training needs on climate change concepts

Prospects of job‐embedded situative professional development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21392871
AutoresEmmanuel Eze (0000-0003-2007-2696, Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria, autor de correspondencia), Eric K N Nwagu (Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria), Joseph C Onuoha (0000-0003-2481-1839, Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria)
Año2022
Volumen106
Número6
Páginas1535-1567
Fecha de publicación2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0036-8326 • E-ISSN: 1098-237X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sce.21743
OpenAlexW4283692342
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas89

The assessment of Nigerian teachers' climate science literacy and training needs on climate change concepts (i.e., causes, impacts, and solutions) are absent. This study relates teachers' climate science literacy and their expressed training needs in other climate change concepts and places teachers in groups. Following a descriptive survey design, 410 teachers were randomly sampled from 8338 public secondary school teachers in Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria. A researcher‐developed instrument passing validity and reliability tests was used for this study. We implemented frequencies, mean, t test, ANOVA, k ‐means cluster analyses, and Pearson's correlation for the analyses of collected data and tested all hypotheses at a p

Climate change · Coaching · Descriptive statistics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Literacy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Professional development · Science education · Scientific Literacy · Statistics · Training (meteorology) · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Mathematics · Psychology · Science Education and Pedagogy