Do the personal attributes of teachers in training affect their attitudes towards transformative environmental education?

Abstract

The environmental challenge is one of the main challenges facing teachers. The aim of this study is to find out how personal attributes and circumstances can influence the attitudes of future teachers towards transformative Environmental Education. For this purpose, a sample of 889 students from the Spanish Infant and Primary Education Grades was used, analyzing their scores in the factors of the validated questionnaire Attitudes Scale toward Environmental Education (ASEE) by means of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The results obtained indicate that factors such as gender, type of pre-university school and family education should be considered, and all this has practical implications for the training of future teachers in what we call Transformative Environmental Education.