Evidence from a longitudinal study stuggests that many agricultural college students lack opinions on soil and water conservation issues. The data also sugges that encounters with conservation issues in the classroom and elsewhere encourage students, especially those with less direct agricultural experience, to learn about and form opinions on conservation.
Klepinger, Michael P. (author), Suvedi, Murari (author), and AEE Center for Evaluative Studies, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07931
Notes:
search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 70
Singh, Padma (author), Suvedi, Murari (author), and AEE Center for Evaluative Studies, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07933
Notes:
search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 72
9 pages., Via online journal., Intergenerational environmental communication (IGEC) was examined using pre- and post-survey research after child participation in a groundwater environmental education (EE) program. The EE program increased child knowledge, but did not significantly increase parent knowledge. There was also a significant difference between perceived levels of environmental communication (EC) between child and parent, with parents indicating higher levels of EC than their children. Participants reporting low EC levels had significantly less interest in, concern for, or knowledge about environmental issues. Several key factors initiated IGEC between children and their parents, including saving household money by changing environmental behaviors, exposure to media sources that reported environmental news, and school activities such as homework related to environmental issues. Environmental educators should be cautious when implementing EE programs, as additional considerations are essential to determine what influence, if any, child participants have beyond the classroom. Continued research is needed to increase EC between children and their parents with the hope of improving intergenerational approaches to environmental issues.
Dunwoody, Sharon (author), Dybro, Tom (author), Griffin, Robert J. (author), Zabala, Fernando (author), and Center for Mass Media Research, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Center for Environmental Communication and Education Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Center for Mass Media Research, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Center for Mass Media Research, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08036
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1994. 25 p. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention in Atlanta, GA, August 10-13, 1994., More and more communities are becoming concerned about health risks posed by lead and other health hazards in their supplies of drinking water. Our study, applying the model of innovation diffusion to the adoption of preventive health behaviors, found that reliance on health professional for information about lead in tap water was associated with residents perceiving risk form this hazard and efficacy in dealing with it, and adopting preventive behaviors. Mass media nd pamphlets direct-nailed to residents were relatively ineffective. The relationship of access difficulty and perceived informational usefulness to reliance on media for tap water lead information are also examined. (original)
