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Direct linkEimear Mc Loughlin – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Choreographed encounters with death in Copenhagen Zoo, such as school and public dissections, emphasize the importance of touch and are underpinned by the moral imperative to understand the nature of life and death. Such encounters are framed by zoo educators as contributing to a deeper environmental awareness. Taking the role of dead animals in…
Descriptors: Animals, Recreational Facilities, Death, Laboratory Procedures
Kellen Copeland; Shaozeng Zhang; Bastian Thomsen; David Fennell; David G. Lewis; Sam Fennell; Amy Schneider; Marley Taylor; Dane Nickerson; Asier Hernandez-Saez; Bryan Breidenach; Kelly Faulkner; Judy Chen; Marshall Floyd; Liann Goldmann; Shelby Copeland; Max Duggan; Reilly Scheffing; Megan Mooney; Price Willoch; Matea Mihaljevic; Sommer Dalla-Bona; Michael Harte – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Wildlife-human relations in the United States are predominantly influenced by Euro-American sociocultural dynamics and (neo)colonial legacies. Humans dominate nonhuman animals through violence, suffering, and death. Wildlife management as a practice is becoming increasingly criticized. Disagreement emerges from epistemological and ontological…
Descriptors: Humanism, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Postcolonialism
Oihana Barrutia; Oier Pedrera; Unai Ortega-Lasuen; José Ramón Díez – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Biodiversity loss is one of the biggest environmental issues in the world today and the biodiversity literacy of citizens can be key to counteracting this. Considering that children can be change agents and actively take part in decision-making from early years, we have assessed the native fauna identification skills of Primary School students…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Biodiversity, Animals, Preferences
Lam, Ling-Wai; Kahn, Peter H., Jr.; Weiss, Thea – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Might interacting with relatively wild forms of nature help move our world away from its largely domination-oriented and destructive sensibilities? Toward broaching this question, this study used an Interaction Pattern Approach to model child-nature interaction in a Hong Kong nature program. Observational video data were collected of 54 children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Familiarity, Consciousness Raising
Anttoni Kervinen; Riikka Hohti; Pauliina Rautio; Maria Helena Saari; Tuure Tammi; Tuomas Aivelo – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified…
Descriptors: Ecology, Humanism, Scientific Research, Citizen Participation
Viktoria Feucht; Paul Wilhelm Dierkes; Andreas Haeser-Kalthoff; Axel Kästner; Constanze Mager; Sören Reichhardt; Lucia Schröder; Tanja Spengler; Ina Steinert; Patrizia Ugolini; Franziska Waked; Matthias Winfried Kleespies – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Regular evaluation of environmental education is important for quality assurance and the self-assessment of educational institutions such as zoos. However, capacity is often lacking. Therefore, this study presents instruments that can be used to track the impact of educational programs on connection to nature, interest in species conservation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Facilities, Demonstration Centers, Science Teaching Centers
Hsu, Chia-Hsuan; Lin, Te-En – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Citizen science is a key approach in scientific research that involves crowdsourced data collection for environmental monitoring and conservation. Participants in citizen science can gain scientific knowledge, change their pro-environmental attitude and behavior. Taiwan Roadkill Observation Network (TaiRON) was founded in 2011 and has a community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Conservation (Environment)
Miranda M. Conlon; Meena M. Balgopal; Brett L. Bruyere; Diane S. Wright; Kevin R. Crooks; Jonathan Salerno – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Place-based education (PBE) offers teachers a unique opportunity to increase engagement and academic outcomes while strengthening students' connections to their environment and inspiring future conservation. In most instances, classroom teachers must independently choose to implement PBE, such as when discussing topics surrounding wildlife and the…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Science Teachers
Emily Nelson; Bronwen Cowie – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Student agency theorising traditionally positions individuals as sovereign and under-theorises the role non-human material elements play in enacting agency. We recognise the role of the material but to honour our research participants and context we adopt an asymmetrical view of the agency of the material non-human in relation to the human in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Biodiversity
Keith, Ryan J.; Given, Lisa M.; Martin, John M.; Hochuli, Dieter F. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
People who regard nature as important and personally meaningful are often compelled to conserve it. This compulsion is increasingly vital in a world where global climate and biodiversity crises are worsening, with younger generations set to bear most of the resulting ecological burden. By understanding why children and adolescents value nature, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Physical Environment, Elementary School Students
Chang, David – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Much of the current literature on environmental education links the outdoors with experiences of "wonder," which connotes a range of experiences from fascination to curiosity, excitement to delight. Most of these associations fall within a nexus of positive valences that render the discourse of wonder in glowing light. However,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Outdoor Education, Learner Engagement, Buddhism
Barrutia, Oihana; Ruiz-González, Aritz; Sanz-Azkue, Iñaki; Díez, José Ramón – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Species literacy is an important aspect of biodiversity education. This study assesses the ability of secondary students (12/13 years old; n = 944) to list wild animals and plants and aims to determine whether this is linked with their interest in nature, their preferences towards animals and plants and different groups therein, the school type…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Plants (Botany), Wildlife, Student Interests
Mallavarapu, Suma; Taglialatela, Lauren A. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Given that conservation education is a primary goal for zoos, it is important to study how changes in exhibit design in the same facility (with the same animals and visitor base) can impact short- and long-term conservation knowledge, attitudes, and behavior (KAB) amongst visitors. However, there is very limited research on this topic. Our goal…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Animals, Conservation (Environment), Wildlife
Lloro, Teresa; Hunold, Christian – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Community and city Facebook pages have proliferated in popularity in the last several years, offering a forum for residents to openly and publicly negotiate relations with urban wildlife, including coyotes. Contemporary shifts in North American coyote geographies (and the concomitant rise in community social media sites) thus open up interesting…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Networks, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
Spooner, Sarah Louise; Jensen, Eric Allen; Tracey, Louise; Marshall, Andrew Robert – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The experience of visiting a zoo as a child can be remembered decades later and potentially influences future environmental attitudes. In light of steadily growing criticism of the ethics and value of live animal shows, some zoos are seeking alternative means of delivering 'edutainment' to a broad audience. One such alternative is through theatre.…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Recreational Facilities, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods
