Relationship of school culture and environmental education to environmental education with learning related to the environment

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between school culture and environmental education and learning about the environment among students of the Laboratorio Pedagogico UNDAC educational institution in the Pasco region. From a quantitative, deductive, correlational, non-experimental, cross-sectional approach.   The measurement of variables with a rigorous internal validity and the generalization of results by the characteristics of the measurement, validity and statistical conclusion was sought. The population consisted of 120 students enrolled in primary education at the Educational Institution Laboratorio Pedagogico UNDAC Pasco. The survey technique under the questionnaire instruments of school culture, environmental education and learning about the environment of environmental attitude built from the from the theory that supports it. The validity of the instrument was through the judgment of experts and the reliability was expressed in the internal consistency through the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, scoring a high reliability according to the scale. The most relevant results reported that there is a significant relationship between school culture and environmental education with learning about the environment in elementary school students of the educational institution, also the size of the affect is large 54.7 = 54%, which means that environmental education explains 54% of learning about the environment and 23.04 = 23% being small, which shows that school culture explains 23% of learning about the environment.