A number of constructs have been developed, defined and used to evaluate what happens within classrooms. The findings from the analysis of teachers' classroom behaviour have been related to the issues emerging from their interviews. This has enabled me to examine the behaviour alongside statements of attitudes and beliefs about the role of the classroom environment. These issues are subsequently related to parallel factors emerging within the architects and regulators interviews. This research enriches the knowledge about the relationships between classroom environments, teachers' beliefs and teachers' behaviour, and concludes by making a case for the importance of environmental awareness in the training and retraining of teachers.
Environmental competence is an important constituent of the skilled teacher.
This presentation will focus on the instruments developed for this research. Risk both to human health and to the physical and natural world has become a topic of considerable policy concern and public interest. It is argued that, in this domain at least, the term environmental psychology is a misnomer since genuinely interdisciplinary approaches are required, that bridge the different social sciences and the social and natural sciences, if we are to understand and resolve some of the most pressing risk issues of today. The psychology of risk and uncertainty. Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, Oxford, Blackwell Science, 289-318.