The importance of environmental education in students: analyzing the transition from middle to high school in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico

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AudienciaPúblico en generales_ES
CoberturaMéxicoes_ES
Fecha de ingreso2026-09-15T00:32:19Z
Fecha de publicación2020-08-24
ResumenObjective: A poll on first-semester high school students (n = 246) took place at NuevoLaredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to find out if they received environmental education as anextracurricular class during middle school and how this training could influence theirperceptions and positions on environmental issues.Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire that contained aspects regard waterculture, recycling, species care and transportation, as well as general knowledge of theenvironment and its regulations, was applied to students. The SPSS statistical software wasused to categorize two groups: students who received extracurricular environmentaleducation and those who did not. Subsequently, the non-parametric Mann Whitney testswere performed on the data.Results: Out of the total number of participants, 167 said they had received extracurricularenvironmental education in middle school. The other 79 participants reported not to havedone so. Students who received more environmental education in middle school exhibit abetter attitude regard water management. Limitations of the study/implications: To interpret the results, it is necessary to considerthat the study took place only in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and that aconvenience sampling was used.Findings / Conclusions: There are still students that do not receive enough environmentaleducation. We conclude that it is important to intensify efforts to change this situation, asenvironmental training has shown to positively influence the attitudes of students whoreceived it.es_ES
Doihttps://doi.org/10.32854/agrop.vi.1680es_ES
URIhttps://riuat.uat.edu.mx/handle/123456789/3795
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RelaciónAgro Productividades_ES
URL relacionadohttps://doi.org/10.32854/agrop.vi.1680es_ES
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FuenteAgro Productividad
Palabra claveCategorizationes_ES
Palabra claveEnvironmental educationes_ES
Palabra clavePsychologyes_ES
Palabra claveMedical educationes_ES
Palabra claveGeographyes_ES
Palabra claveMathematics educationes_ES
Palabra claveMedicinees_ES
Palabra clavePedagogyes_ES
ClasificaciónEnvironmental and sustainability educationes_ES
TítuloThe importance of environmental education in students: analyzing the transition from middle to high school in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexicoes_ES
TipoArtículoes_ES
ArbitradoHa sido Arbitradoes_ES
AutorHerrera-Izaguirre, Juan A.
AutorHernández, Ramón Ventura Roque
AutorLlamas-Mangin, Yuritzi
AutorJuárez-Ibarra, Carlos M.
AutorMonsivais, Cynthia Lizeth Ramos
AutorHerrera-Izaguirre, Juan A.es_ES
AutorHernández, Ramón Ventura Roquees_ES
AutorLlamas-Mangin, Yuritzies_ES
AutorJuárez-Ibarra, Carlos M.es_ES
AutorMonsivais, Cynthia Lizeth Ramoses_ES
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipases_ES
Número9es_ES
Rango de páginasNone-Nonees_ES
URL relacionadahttps://doi.org/10.32854/agrop.vi.1680
Tipo de artículoIndexado
Tipo de artículoIndexadoes_ES
Volumen13es_ES

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