The Research of Experiential Learning to Enhance Ocean Stewardship and Pro-Environmental Behavior Intention-Cross-Cultural Comparison from Taiwan and Indonesia

Abstract

Marine education is a critical way to stop global marine problems. Educators are focus on educating people with not only attitude but also positive behavior toward the world. The motivation of this research is to explain the experiential learning approaches, ocean stewardship, and people’s pro-environmental behavior intention to their environment. This research used a survey method to collect data from Indonesia and Taiwan. There are 377 of participants from Taiwan and 390 of participants from Indonesia. The result shows that experiential learning is positively related to pro-environmental behavior intention. Experiential learning, ocean stewardship, and pro-environmental behavior intention are positively related to both Taiwanese and Indonesian students. However, the role of ocean stewardship between experiential learning and pro-environmental behavior intention relationship is full mediation in Indonesia, but the Taiwan sample is partially mediate. The results provide a cross-nation comparison to understand the way of promoting marine education through experiential learning and ocean stewardship. The moderation effects show that the relationship of ocean stewardship to pro-environmental behavior intention in Taiwan is higher than Indonesia, and the relationship of experiential learning to pro-environmental behavior intention in Taiwan is lower than Indonesia.