Evaluating environmental literacy and self-efficacy of Hong Kong General Studies pre-service teachers

As the increasing environmental challenge worldwide, Environmental Education (EE) has been regarded as an effective way to reduce problems by improving environmental literacy of students. Particularly, teachers play a key role in undertaking the responsibility of nurturing Environmental Literacy (EL) of future generations to carry out EE. This study aims to examine environmental literacy of Hong Kong pre-service General Studies (GS) teachers and their self-efficacy toward EE teaching. 54 valid responses were eventually collected from students majoring in GS at the Education University of Hong Kong. The result of this study would contribute to the implementation of EE in Hong Kong and provide implications for pre-service teachers’ training programmes in tertiary education institutes.