From Environmental Action to Climate Change and Back

Abstract

Considering the importance of climate change issues as the integral part of present day’s students’ body of environmental knowledge, as well as a needful part of their social and personal life, this paper will be focused on the scientific research of the organized academic environmental activities (promotion action on climate change) in achieving learning objectives of climate change knowledge. Our research relied on growing body of research and case studies that have predefined environmental education and its objectives in education for sustainable development, with deep understanding of environmental issues and skills for active participation in sustainability problem solving. For the purpose of our research, we surveyed students of the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Science, Serbia, not only on their attitude toward the environmental action referred to gaining climate change knowledge, but also on their achievement levels in faculty environmental studies program. An analysis of the results was carried out using the SPSS 24 software package