Predisposition Towards Sustainable Behaviour Among Students in the Pre-school Education Study Programme

Aleksandra Šindić; Kiril Barbarev; Marko Gavriloski; Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec

doi:10.18690/rei.14.3.357-372.2021

Aleksandra Šindić University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy
Kiril Barbarev Goce Delchev University, Faculty of Educational Sciences
Marko Gavriloski University of Primorska, Faculty of Education
Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec University of Primorska, Faculty of Education

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/rei.14.3.357-372.2021

Keywords: presiposition towards sustainable behaviour, pre-school education

Abstract

Starting from the importance of sustainable behaviour among educators for sustainability in kindergarten, the aim of this empirical quantitative study was to investigate the prevalence of predispositions towards sustainable behaviour among students from the first cycle of the Preschool Education study programme at three universities. The connection between predispositions, the existence of a difference between cognitive and non-cognitive predispositions, and the absence of a statistically significant difference between the predispositions of the students in relation to home faculty and place of residence were determined.

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