The Impact of a Short Conservation
Education Workshop on Argentinean
Students’ Knowledge about and
Attitudes towards Species

Juliana Nates; Claudia Campos; Petra Lindemann-Matthies

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species

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Juliana Nates ¹ ^* , Claudia Campos ¹, Petra Lindemann-Matthies ¹

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¹ University of Zurich, SWITZERLAND^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of a one-day conservation education workshop on knowledge about and attitudes towards species of 88 students from Valle Fértil, Argentina. Immediately before and after the workshop and one year later, students (aged 12 to 16) had to identify native and introduced exotic plant and animal species as well as artificial ones ("Simpsons") on flashcards, to point out those "species" they considered most beautiful and useful, and to name adaptations of local species to arid conditions. Immediately after the workshop, students strongly increased their knowledge about plants and adaptations. One year later, this was still the case for those plant species students had been already somewhat familiar with in the pretest. The workshop hardly changed attitudes.

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conservation education
exotic species
native species
pretest
posttest
students
workshop

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2012, Volume 8, Issue 4, 257-267

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Nates, J., Campos, C., & Lindemann-Matthies, P. (2012). The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 8(4), 257-267. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

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Nates J, Campos C, Lindemann-Matthies P. The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2012;8(4):257-67. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

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Nates J, Campos C, Lindemann-Matthies P. The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2012;8(4), 257-267. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

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Nates, Juliana, Claudia Campos, and Petra Lindemann-Matthies. "The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2012 8 no. 4 (2012): 257-267. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

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Nates, J., Campos, C., and Lindemann-Matthies, P. (2012). The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 8(4), pp. 257-267. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a

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Nates, Juliana et al. "The Impact of a Short Conservation Education Workshop on Argentinean Students’ Knowledge about and Attitudes towards Species". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 8, no. 4, 2012, pp. 257-267. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.844a