Profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms on environmentalism: The case of teaching disaster risk reduction

Profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms on environmentalism: The case of teaching disaster risk reduction

Ian Phil CANLAS & Mageswary KARPUDEWAN

ABSTRACT
In the context of Value-Belief-Norm Theory, a prior study revealed that the teaching of disaster risk reduction in existing school curricula lies within the continuum of pro-environmental behavior. However, there is a deficit in the literature that explored profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms in the context related thereto. This paper reports an emergent finding of a study on profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction. Following a two-phase cross-sectional survey design, 434 public school science teachers from Biliran Province, the Philippines answered an adapted, modified, and content validated questionnaire. Data collected underwent exploratory factor analysis and parallel analysis to determine the initial factor structure and confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the same. Results revealed the existence of distinct profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction that may have implications for environmentalism since schools are often used as platforms for many environmental advocacies including environmental awareness, protection, and sustainability.

KEYWORDS: Value-Belief-Norm Theory; profession-specific values, beliefs, and norms; disaster risk reduction; environmentalism; pro-environmental behavior

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