Do Pre-service Teachers Dance with Wolves? Subject-Specific Teacher Professional Development in A Recent Biodiversity Conservation Issue

摘要: Biodiversity conservation issues are adequate topics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), as they involve ecological, economic and social aspects. But teaching about these often challenges teachers due to high factual complexity but also because additional affective dimensions. As a consequence, teacher professional development in ESD should address components, better qualify motivate integrate into their teaching. To investigate behaviourally relevant factors, we selected the context natural remigration grey wolf (Canis lupus) Germany surveyed 120 pre-service biology (M = 23.2 years, SD 3.3 years) contextual factors motivation teach issue. Participants reported more positive attitudes, higher enjoyment an increased perceived behavioural control towards issue future when smaller psychological distance overall protect species. this was grounded fundamental personality characteristics like wildlife values attitudes wolves, discuss central role traits basis transformative learning processes necessity holistic subject-specific ESD.