Sustainable Intrinsic Values, and the Values Judgments Inference Framework for Environmental Education
Authors: Jun-Young Oh, Professor - National Pedagogical University of Uzbekistan, at Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19847830
Page No: 17-45
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to obtain results by formalizing the process of moving toward pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors—intended to realize the sustainable values we truly must preserve—into a “value judgment reasoning framework.” The methodology involves formalizing, for the purpose of environmental education, the process of students and the public making value judgments based on value principles regarding factual judgments experienced regarding the environment, using a value judgment reasoning framework. As a result, this study explores the process of leading to duty- and responsible pro- behaviors, mediated by ethical values as normative motivations, through pro-environmental attitudes derived from environmental ethical value judgments, in order to realize these intrinsic sustainable values. In terms of educational implications, environmental education should be a process of realizing abstract sustainable values into concrete eco-friendly behaviors. Above all, education that allows for the experience of sustainable values must take place within science education.
