Enzo Ferrari

Universidad de Salamanca

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Camilo Ruíz

Universidad de Salamanca

Fernando Martínez Abad

Universidad de Salamanca

Anne-Marie Ballegeer

Universidad de Salamanca

Pablo Herrero Teijón

Universidad de Salamanca

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Miguel Ãngel Fuertes

Universidad de Salamanca

Kylyan Marc Bisquert i Pérez

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Antonio García-Vinuesa

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Diego Corrochano

Universidad de Salamanca

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Pablo Ángel Meira Cartea

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Laura Delgado

Universidad de Salamanca

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Macquarie University

Universitat de Barcelona

Universidad de La Rioja

Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León

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Instituto de Física Fundamental

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Examining the Relationship between the Dimensions of the Climate-Change Competence (C3): Testing for Mediation and Moderation

Sustainability (2022)

Enzo Ferrari Fernando Martínez Abad Camilo Ruíz

The objective of this study is to analyze the positive relationship between different dimensions (knowledge, attitudes, and ability) of the Climate-Change Competence in the participants of a Massive Open Online Course called “Awareness and Training on Climate Change for Primary and Secondary Teachers”. This study describes the use of this competence to introduce Climate Change into formal education and provides an example of how it can be used to design educational interventions to mobilize the students through education. We carried out a correlational research design based on mediation and moderation models using a process macro for questionnaires about the Climate-Change Competence. In this study, we used a sample of 530 people from Spain and Latin America (52% female, mean age = 36.1 years). The findings revealed that knowledge about Climate Change is a good predictor of ability and attitude. Furthermore, we predicted that the relationship between knowledge and ability would be mediated by attitude. Likewise, we hypothesized that attitude is a moderating dimension between knowledge and ability. The results supported our prediction and showed that attitude is a strong mediator in the relationship between knowledge and ability. However, the interaction between knowledge and attitude did not improve the ability to cope with Climate Change. The Climate-Change Competence is an efficient tool to introduce Climate Change into formal education. It can also be used to investigate, for the first time, the relationship between knowledge, ability, and attitude, which is essential to transform education into a necessary tool for mitigation and adaptation.

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10.3390/su14031895

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Improvement on Social Representation of Climate Change through a Knowledge-Based MOOC in Spanish

Sustainability (2019)

Enzo Ferrari Anne-Marie Ballegeer Miguel Ãngel Fuertes Pablo Herrero Teijón Laura Delgado

Climate Change is the most important threat to our society and all species on Earth. Large alterations in the climate are affecting every aspect of our society and in order to limit this impact we must decarbonize the economy before 2050. Although science presents solid evidence on the magnitude of the problem and outlines precisely the consequences, people do not act accordingly and do not consider this issue a priority for their survival. The reason behind this paradox might be a non-appropriate Social Representation of Climate Change in society as the Social Representation conditions and forms the response of the society. In this paper, we extend previous investigations of how this Social Representation is formed in order to find ways to improve it through a Massive Online Open Course on the Science of Climate Change. Using a validated questionnaire, we investigated the knowledge dimension of the Social Representation of Climate Change in a group of students of a MOOC on Climate Change. A pre- and posttest revealed general improvements in all the categories that were considered in this study. A detailed analysis showed different degrees of improvement for different groups, providing new insights in the efficiency of knowledge-based online courses. Well designed Massive Online Open Courses, based on scientific evidence, targeted to the general public might improve the Social Representation of Climate Change, which may in turn trigger awareness and an effective mobilization to address this important and urgent topic.

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10.3390/su11226317

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