Katya C. Drake|James H. Speer?|Margaret L. Stachewicz|Tina Newsham|Virgil L. Sheets
Environmental Literacy Differences Based on Gender Identity and Race: A Social Justice Concern
Indiana State University|Indiana State University|Indiana State University|University of North Carolina Wilmington|Indiana State University
environmental literacy empower students make positive changes environment understanding rates environmental literacy college students color particularly important african american asian indigenous peoples bipoc likely disproportionately impacted environmental degradation administered survey questions regarding environmental literacy undergraduate students comprehensive midwestern university fall 2019 resulting 2560 participants 25 student population anova comparing environmental literacy summary scores demonstrated caucasian respondents statistically higher environmental literacy african american native american students statistically different asian native hawaiian mixedrace students although scores low caucasian students scoring 39 african american students scoring 31 also found caucasian bipoc women greater concern environment f 20675 p lt 0001 felt actions make difference following two separate tests f 18916 p lt 0001 f 19003 p lt 0001 men gendernonconforming students caucasian students slightly higher environmental literacy scores overall low women consistently report concern environment also greater empowerment make difference