Sustainable School Environment as a Landscape for Secondary School Students’ Engagement in Learning

The sustainable school is important in today’s education system to ensure the well-being of younger generations. This research work attempted to empirically test the different predictions of a sustainable school environment for secondary school students’ engagement in learning. The following objecti...

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Autores principales: Agne Brandisauskiene, Loreta Buksnyte-Marmiene, Jurate Cesnaviciene, Ausra Daugirdiene, Egle Kemeryte-Ivanauskiene, Rasa Nedzinskaite-Maciuniene
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c72a64611eb54d408240340c99b0a8e22021-11-11T19:26:27ZSustainable School Environment as a Landscape for Secondary School Students’ Engagement in Learning10.3390/su1321117142071-1050https://doaj.org/article/c72a64611eb54d408240340c99b0a8e22021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/21/11714https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050The sustainable school is important in today’s education system to ensure the well-being of younger generations. This research work attempted to empirically test the different predictions of a sustainable school environment for secondary school students’ engagement in learning. The following objectives were formulated: to analyse the differences of sustainable school environment and engagement in learning based on gender and SES background; to analyse the relationship between sustainable school environment variables and engagement in learning; and to examine how sustainable school environment variables could predict students’ emotional and behavioural engagement. The research sample consisted of students from three districts of Lithuania with a disadvantaged SES context. We assessed the sustainable school environment variables and students’ emotional and behavioural engagement in learning with the What Is Happening in this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire, a short form of the Learning Climate Questionnaire (LCQ), and the Student Engagement Scale. The results showed a statistically significant difference in behavioural engagement between boys and girls. There are no differences in sustainable school environment variables and engagement in relation to SES. Teachers’ autonomy supportive behaviour perceived by students has the strongest correlation with emotional and behavioural engagement in learning. Thus, in the Lithuanian schools surveyed, a sustainable school environment is developing.Agne BrandisauskieneLoreta Buksnyte-MarmieneJurate CesnavicieneAusra DaugirdieneEgle Kemeryte-IvanauskieneRasa Nedzinskaite-MaciunieneMDPI AGarticlesustainable school environmentengagement in learningsecondary schoolbehavioural engagementemotional engagementEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsTD194-195Renewable energy sourcesTJ807-830Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENSustainability, Vol 13, Iss 11714, p 11714 (2021)
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collection DOAJ
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topic sustainable school environment
engagement in learning
secondary school
behavioural engagement
emotional engagement
Environmental effects of industries and plants
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
TJ807-830
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
spellingShingle sustainable school environment
engagement in learning
secondary school
behavioural engagement
emotional engagement
Environmental effects of industries and plants
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
TJ807-830
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Agne Brandisauskiene
Loreta Buksnyte-Marmiene
Jurate Cesnaviciene
Ausra Daugirdiene
Egle Kemeryte-Ivanauskiene
Rasa Nedzinskaite-Maciuniene
Sustainable School Environment as a Landscape for Secondary School Students’ Engagement in Learning
description The sustainable school is important in today’s education system to ensure the well-being of younger generations. This research work attempted to empirically test the different predictions of a sustainable school environment for secondary school students’ engagement in learning. The following objectives were formulated: to analyse the differences of sustainable school environment and engagement in learning based on gender and SES background; to analyse the relationship between sustainable school environment variables and engagement in learning; and to examine how sustainable school environment variables could predict students’ emotional and behavioural engagement. The research sample consisted of students from three districts of Lithuania with a disadvantaged SES context. We assessed the sustainable school environment variables and students’ emotional and behavioural engagement in learning with the What Is Happening in this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire, a short form of the Learning Climate Questionnaire (LCQ), and the Student Engagement Scale. The results showed a statistically significant difference in behavioural engagement between boys and girls. There are no differences in sustainable school environment variables and engagement in relation to SES. Teachers’ autonomy supportive behaviour perceived by students has the strongest correlation with emotional and behavioural engagement in learning. Thus, in the Lithuanian schools surveyed, a sustainable school environment is developing.
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author Agne Brandisauskiene
Loreta Buksnyte-Marmiene
Jurate Cesnaviciene
Ausra Daugirdiene
Egle Kemeryte-Ivanauskiene
Rasa Nedzinskaite-Maciuniene
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Jurate Cesnaviciene
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Rasa Nedzinskaite-Maciuniene
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title Sustainable School Environment as a Landscape for Secondary School Students’ Engagement in Learning
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