Sustainable Intrinsic Values, and the Values Judgments Inference Framework for Environmental Education

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to obtain results by formalizing theprocess of moving toward pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors—intended to realize the sustainable values we truly must preserve—into a“value judgment reasoning framework.”The methodology involves formalizing, for the purpose of environmentaleducation, the process of students and the public making value judgmentsbased on value principles regarding factual judgments experienced regardingthe environment, using a value judgment reasoning framework.As a result, this study explores the process of leading to duty- and responsiblepro- behaviors, mediated by ethical values as normative motivations, throughpro-environmental attitudes derived from environmental ethical valuejudgments, in order to realize these intrinsic sustainable values.In terms of educational implications, environmental education should be aprocess of realizing abstract sustainable values into concrete eco-friendlybehaviors. Above all, education that allows for the experience of sustainablevalues must take place within science education