Abstract
Twenty-seven upper-elementary Hispanic students living in a land-locked Texas community participated in a year-long after-school environmental club led by university personnel, which focused on endangered marine species and oceanic conservation. Using a convergent mixed-methods intervention design including New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) surveys and journals, this study examined the participating students' changes in knowledge, understandings and agency around ecological issues. Findings demonstrate students' significant ecocentric growth in NEP areas of Earth's ecological limits and catastrophes, as well as knowledge gains about how human activities are impacting oceanic environments. They reported greater perceptions of agency to redress anthropogenic activities affecting the abiotic (but not biotic) factors of the oceanic ecosystem. Overall, this study suggests that club settings can be effective educative and socially reinforcing spaces for environmental values and fostering ecocentric views.
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