95807 20221004075838.0 doi 10.3390/su12176817 sideral 120223 ART-2020-120223 eng Collado, S. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3580-5947 The Effect of a Nature-Based Environmental Education Program on Children's Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Randomized Experiment with Primary Schools 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The evidence about the effects of nature-based instruction on pro-environmentalism is uncompelling, mainly due to a lack of controlled experiments. This hinders causal claims and the provision of intervention guidelines. We present an experiment examining the impact of a nature-based environmental education (NBEE) program included in the school curriculum on children's environmental attitudes (EA) and behaviors (EB). Children who followed the program through traditional instruction were used as a control group. Seven Spanish primary schools participated in the program and school classes were randomly assigned to the NBEE program (experimental group, N= 516) or the environmental education (EE) through traditional instruction (control group, N= 218). Our results indicate that children's EA increased more in the NBEE group than in the control group. On average, EB remained virtually the same in both groups of children across time. In light of our findings, we encourage the promotion of a nature-based pedagogy in formal education to enhance children's environmental attitudes. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICIU/PGC2018-095502-B-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/PIIDUZ-19-048 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.251 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 124 / 273 = 0.454 2020 Q2 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 60 / 125 = 0.48 2020 Q2 T2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 30 / 44 = 0.682 2020 Q3 T3 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 6 / 9 = 0.667 2020 Q3 T3 0.611 2020 Energy Engineering and Power Technology 2020 Q1 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2020 Q1 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2020 Q1 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2020 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rosa, C.D. Corraliza, J.A. 4009 740 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicología Social 12, 17 (2020), 6817 [12 pp] Sustainability (Basel) Sustainability (Switzerland) 2071-1050 217690 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95807/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 459091 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/95807/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:95807 articulos driver 2022-10-03-13:34:26 ARTICLE