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

Prospects of job‐embedded situative professional development

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ID21392871
AutoresEmmanuel Eze (0000-0003-2007-2696, Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education University of Nigeria Nsukka Nigeria, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2022
Volume106
Fascículo6
Páginas1535-1567
Data de publicação2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0036-8326 • E-ISSN: 1098-237X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sce.21743
OpenAlexW4283692342
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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