Zoos as a Source of Free Choice Learning

By Sara Tofield, R. Coll, Brent Vyle, Rachel Bolstad. 2003

122 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d7f2b2e3c2e1ce8cd76c889587f6a11413f4ec81

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. R. Bowker

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. R. Bowker

In Social Psychology

1. R. Bowker
2. W. Timberlake
3. E. Fernandez
4. Sarah R. Pickens
5. Michael Tamborski
6. M. Dikmenli

Citations in the corpus

• Upper Secondary Students’ Situational Interest: A case study of the role of a zoo visit in a biology class (2013, unknown): “) promotes student motivation (Hidi, Weiss, Berndorff, & Nolan, 1998; Paris, Yambor, & Packard, 1998) and learning (Cox-Petersen, Marsh, Kisiel, & Melber, 2003; Mortensen & Smart, 2007; Tofield et al., 2003).”
• Animal–visitor interactions in the modern zoo: Conflicts and interventions (2009, background): “Tofield et al. (2003) investigated exhibit design that facilitated an animal’s natural behavior and the role it may play in the perceptions of zoo visitors.”
• Children’s perceptions and learning about tropical rainforests: an analysis of their drawings (2007, background): “The benefits of an informal learning situation are outlined by Tofield et al. (2003) in relation to school visits to zoos.”