Connection Between Environmental Awareness and Personal Attitudes Towards Education as a Prerequisite for Forming Environmental Educational Strategies

The article presents a study on the connection between environmental awareness and personal attitudes to education as a prerequisite for the formation of environmental education strategies. The empirical data were obtained during research conducted in 2022-2024. A total of 1734 people participated in our empirical research. Personal environmental awareness correlated positively and significantly with subjective assessments of the importance of education and with the desire to learn something new. The importance of education correlated positively with the importance of environmental issues, the participants’ concern for environmental cleanliness, and painful feelings about the environmental consequences of the war. The desire to learn something new correlated positively with the assessed importance of environmental issues, concern for environmental cleanliness, and with painful feelings about the environmental consequences of the war. Personal awareness about one’s own actions and behaviour had a positive impact on the assessed importance of environmental issues, greater concern for environmental cleanliness, painful feelings about the environmental consequences of the war, and the implementation of practical environmental measures to improve ecology. There was also a willingness to invest resources in ecological improvement in one’s own community. In addition, reflection on actions aimed at ecological improvement correlated positively and significantly with changes in beliefs and values during the war and with awareness in one’s own actions and behaviour. People with higher or incomplete higher education had better environmental awareness than did people with general secondary education. Respondents with low financial status had lower indicators of environmental awareness compared to other groups.