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Cook, Katelynn J.; Hvenegaard, Glen T.; Halpenny, Elizabeth A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2021
Park managers use personal interpretation to achieve a variety of outcomes for park visitors and the natural environment. This project examines whether these outcomes are achieved, the factors influencing how the outcomes are achieved, and the overlap among these factors across the outcomes. Based on interviews with visitors in three Alberta…
Descriptors: Parks, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Attitude Change
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Gharis, Laurie; Franzen, Rebecca L.; Liddicoat, Kendra; Remington, Taylor N. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
The North American Association for Environmental Education encourages state environmental education associations to develop professional certifications for individual environmental educators. To understand perceptions in Wisconsin, the authors distributed an online survey. Survey questions encompassed participant demographics; certification…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Certification
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Shaw, Amy E.; Miller, Kelly K. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
If wildlife gardening programs wish to maximize their contribution to the biodiversity of their area, they need to be recruiting individuals who would not have undertaken wildlife activities of their own accord. This study sought to assess which program features equate to the most success in recruiting previously unengaged members. Providing site…
Descriptors: Wildlife, Gardening, Program Development, Plants (Botany)
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Krantz, Shelby; Monroe, Martha; Bartels, Wendy-Lin – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2013
The Cooperative Extension Service in the United States can play an important role in educating forest landowners to improve forest resilience in the face of climatic uncertainty. Two focus groups in Florida informed the development of a program that was conducted in Leon County; presurveys and postsurveys and observation provided evaluation data.…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Forestry, Focus Groups, Pretests Posttests
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Smaldone, David; Dey, Shannon E. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
The purpose of this study was to conduct a nationwide assessment of state-level environmental education (EE) organizations to determine the components that are essential to the establishment and success of these organizations. E-mail surveys were used to collect data from North American Association for Environmental Education state affiliates, and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Internet, Surveys, Organizational Development
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; Geerling-Eijff, Floor; Hubeek, Francisca; van der Kroon, Sandra; Vader, Janneke – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2008
World wide, policymakers are looking for ways to use education and communication strategies to create a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. They often find themselves trapped between instrumental (behavior change) and emancipatory (human development) uses of such strategies. This study sheds light on this apparent…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Behavior Modification, Behavior Change, Sustainable Development