儿童气候教育增加了父母的气候关注
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北卡罗来纳州立大学的一项新研究发现，教育儿童有关气候变化的教育增加了父母对气候变化的担忧。
“There’s a robust body of work showing that kids can influence their parents’ behavior and positions on environmental and social issues, but this is the first experimental study demonstrating that climate education for children promotes parental concern about climate change,” says Danielle Lawson, lead author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student at NC State.
在这项研究中，研究人员与中学科学老师合作，将气候变化课程纳入其教室。在教授课程之前，研究人员有238名学生和292名父母接受了一项调查，以衡量他们对气候变化的关注程度。
Seventy-two of the students and 93 of the parents were in a control group, meaning the students did not receive the climate change curriculum; 166 students and 199 parents were in an experimental group, meaning the students did receive the climate curriculum. All students and parents took the survey again after the students in the experimental group had completed the climate curriculum.
劳森说：“我们发现，实验组和对照组的气候关注点有所增加，但是在教导儿童课程的家庭中，这种转变更为明显。”
气候调查以17分的量表来衡量关注，范围从-8（根本不关心）到+8（极为相关）。平均而言，对照组的学生在第二次调查中的关注点增加了0.72点，而父母则增加了1.37分。同时，实验组的学生增加了2.78点，而父母则增加了3.89点。
“We also found that the results were most pronounced for three groups: conservative parents, parents of daughters, and fathers,” Lawson says. This was noteworthy because conservatives and men are typically among the least concerned about climate change.
On average, conservative parents’ level of concern increased 4.77 points; parents of daughters increased 4.15 points; and fathers increased 4.31 points. All these key groups went from being marginally not concerned (-2.1 for conservatives, -1.8 for those with daughters, and -0.9 for fathers, compared to a zero midpoint) to moderately concerned (2.5 for conservatives, 2.5 for those with daughters, and 3.6 for fathers). These post-test concern levels were much higher than those in the control group (conservatives: 0.25; those with daughters: -1.6, fathers: -0.8).
值得注意的是，在研究结束时，治疗组中的自由主义和保守的父母最终达到了相似的气候变化问题。在孩子们了解气候变化后，预测试中的4.5点差距缩小为1.2。
“This study tells us that we can educate children about climate change and they’re willing to learn, which is exciting because studies find that many adults are resistant to climate education, because it runs counter to their personal identities,” Lawson says. “It also highlights that children share that information with their parents, particularly if they’re given tools to facilitate communication – and that parents are willing to listen.”
该论文的合着者，北卡罗来纳州州立大学的公园助理教授，公园助理教授，北卡罗来纳州州立大学的助理教授。“这是关于教育的，而不是行动主义，孩子是伟大的教育者。他们似乎可以帮助人们批判性地考虑关注气候变化的方式可能符合其价值观。”
纸，“孩子们可以促进父母的气候变化关注，” is published in the journal自然气候变化。该论文由北卡罗来纳州林业和环境资源教授尼尔斯·彼得森（Nils Peterson）合着；北卡罗来纳州科学教育副教授Sarah Carrier；北卡罗来纳州扩展的环境教育家蕾妮·斯特纳德（Renee Strnad）；以及北卡罗来纳州公园，娱乐和旅游管理副教授Erin Seekamp。
这项工作是在北卡罗来纳州海补助金和内政部东南气候适应科学中心的支持下完成的，其形式是授予劳森的研究生奖学金。
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给编辑的注释：研究摘要如下。
“孩子可以促进父母的气候变化关注”
作者:丹尼尔·劳森,Nils Peterso凯瑟琳·史蒂文森n, Sarah Carrier, Renee Strnad and Erin Seekamp, North Carolina State University
出版：5月6日，自然气候变化
doi：10.1038/s41558-019-0463-3
抽象的：Collective action required to mitigate and adapt to climate change is extremely difficult to achieve, largely due to socio-ideological biases that perpetuate polarization over climate change. Because climate change perceptions in children seem less susceptible to the influence of worldview or political context, it may be possible for children to inspire adults toward greater levels of climate concern, and in turn, collective action. Child-to-parent intergenerational learning (IGL) – that is, the transfer of knowledge, attitudes, or behaviors from children to parents – may be a promising, but previously unexamined, pathway to overcoming socio-ideological barriers to climate concern. Here we present an experimental evaluation of an educational intervention designed to build climate change concern among parents indirectly through their middle school-aged children in North Carolina, USA. Parents of children in the treatment group expressed higher levels of climate change concern than parents in the control group. Effects were strongest among male parents and conservative parents, who, consistent with previous research, displayed the lowest levels of concern at pretest. Daughters appeared to be especially effective in influencing parents. Our results suggest that IGL may overcome barriers to building climate concern.
Really disappointed in this study, children influence their parents all the time so to that I say “duh”. My concern is that I don’t believe in climate change is a thing and I know a lot of the numbers have been faked. I’d rather see them focus on proving that there is such a thing or that we have any control over it. Weather varies.
这项研究的年级水平是多少？
该研究涉及中学老师和学生；涉及六，七和八年级的班级。