Ecocentric values

In sum, therefore, we can say that after completing the course in which green chemistry experiments play a central organizing role, students environmental attitudes, motivations and environmental values changed towards being more pro-environmental. Participants expressed greater levels of intrinsic motivation and exhibited ecocentrism in their values after completing the course. Self-determined intrinsic motivations and ecocentric value are noted to be the antecedent of pro-environmental behaviours. ... 

Ecocentric Worldview. In this view nature has a value of its own. It places nature at the center and man as a part of nature. Man should not have a large impact on nature. All biological species should be maintained. Technology should fit into and depend on nature. Nature should be kept in a steady state. If this means that human needs are to be restricted, then that is accepted. To quote Gandhi The world provides sufficient for everybody s need but not for everybody s greed. ... 

Figure 13.2 shows the means for the overall value orientations obtained at three different times (pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2). In determining the overall mean value, the mean for all the questionnaire items representing egocentric, homocentric and ecocentric orientations (the entire 37 items) are taken into consideration. There is a deereasing trend in the overall score obtained from the pre-test to the seeond post-test. This decrease in the mean value suggests that the pre-serviee teaehers expressed value orientations have... 

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