Literacy and Environmentally Ethical Behaviors of Secondary School Students in China

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ABSTRACT

This study was conducted with the aim of exploring the roles of managing teaching in secondary schools in China, studying the literacy and environmentally ethical behaviors of secondary school students in China and comparison the environmentally ethical behavior classified by factors of 280 secondary school students in China. Data was collected with questionnaires and analyzed with descriptive statistics and independent t-test.The findings revealed that 84.3 percent of the students were dissatisfied with the environment of Kunming, China, while 55.0 percent of the studentsmost frequently considered water pollution to be a problem. Most of the schools (77.5%) organized lessons about environmental conservation, while nearly all of the students (95.4%) had a high degree of environmental literacy and 87.1 percent has moderate environmentally ethical behavior. Furthermore, the students most frequently engaged in water conservation behavior. Concerning the environmentally ethical behavior classified by factorsethical behaviors of the students, the findings indicate that the students had had three years of experience at the school.  The mean score for environmentally ethical behavior among the 2-year+ students was higher than that of the students with 1-2 years of experience at the school(p-value = 0.002). The students who studied at larger schools had higher mean environmentally ethical behavior scores than the students at medium or small schools (p-value <0.05). Regularly building knowledge and understanding about the environment for students with focus on presenting the impacts of environmental destruction can raise awareness about environmental problems among the students.