CLIMATE CHANGE MISINFORMATION & LITERACY PERCEPTION OF SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
CLIMATE CHANGE MISINFORMATION & LITERACY PERCEPTION OF SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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2024
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Adetoro, Salau Sadiat
Michael, Obaje Alfred
Abdullahi, Isah Yahaya
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LIBRARY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FORUM JOURNAL OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMPLEX
Abstract
The paper presented the findings about the perceptions of selected undergraduate students on
climate change misinformation and literacy. Empirical data was collected using an exploratory
approach. The perception of 60 selected undergraduates on climate change misinformation and
the use of Open Education Resources (OERs) to curb climate misinformation. To reduce biases,
students selected for data collection were not in disciplines related to environmental sciences,
geography or climate science. The data collected indicated that the students understand that
climate change exists, although over half of the respondents were not sure if they had been
misinformed about climate change from their most used sources of climate change information.
The study concluded that climate change awareness is rapidly gaining ground as the perception
about climate change and its consequences is no longer in doubt among the students. The study
recommended that librarians in the open access space play a key role by increasing accessibility
to diverse high quality OERs that would provide accurate information on climate change.
Librarians can also use social media platforms and other digital tools to enhance students’ critical
thinking and media literacy skills thereby enabling them to discern credible information about
climate change from misinformation
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JOURNAL OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY COMPLEX