Beliefs, knowledge and lived experiences of the higher education institute educators in mitigating climate change
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Beliefs, knowledge and lived experiences of the higher education institute educators in mitigating climate change
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This study aimed to evaluate the beliefs, knowledge, and lived experiences among educators of Cagayan State University in mitigating climate change. A reliable researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data from 275 randomly selected educators in the eight (8) campuses of Cagayan State University. Results revealed that educators describe their actions in mitigating climate change as “Often” to both social (3.77) and economic (3.84) aspects, while it is deemed “Always” for their actions relevant to the environmental (4.37) aspects. It is observed that the perceived described actions of the educators based on their knowledge and lived experiences about climate change are complementing one another. That is why both social and economic aspects are answered majority as “Often”. On the other hand, the described actions of the educators to mitigate climate change on environmental aspects had surfaced to be “Always”. Thus, the previous results revealed that the educators know something about climate change, they feel worried about it and they believe climate change is happening are precursors to developing high sense of concern to the protection of our environment and ultimately developing an environment-friendly behavior among the educators of the Cagayan State University.
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