University environmental management and attitude towards climate change in teachers

Abstract

University environmental management is a process that includes a set of elements for the management and solution of environmental problems within the educational facility. The objective of the study was to identify the relationship between university environmental management and the attitude towards climate change in teachers. The research was framed within the quantitative approach, correlational descriptive type, non-experimental cross-sectional design. A sample was taken of 58 teachers from the comprehensive education and computer education majors, from a Venezuelan public university, to whom two questionnaires administered online were applied. In the results, it was found that there is a moderate and low university environmental management, as well as a moderate and low attitude towards climate change in the teachers of both careers, the predominant attitude being behavioral, followed by affective and finally cognitive. The relationship of the variables, university environmental management and attitude towards climate change was identified because they are statistically related. It is concluded that there is a need to generate university environmental management to change attitudes and respond in a timely manner to current climate changes, generating a new environmental culture in educational actors.