Plants have a chance: outdoor educational programmes alter students' knowledge and attitudes towards plants

By Jana Fančovičová, P. Prokop. 2011

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

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Nordic–Baltic Student Teachers’ Identification of and Interest in Plant and Animal Species: The Importance of Species Identification and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development (2015, background): “These results are in line with previous research, where outdoor education has proved to have a positive effect on students’ knowledge about and attitude to species (Braun et al., 2010; Evans et al., 2006; Fančovičová & Prokop, 2011; Huxham et al., 2006; Palmberg & Kuru, 2000).”
Effects of a 1-day environmental education intervention on environmental attitudes and connectedness with nature (2013, background): “Many studies have proven the ability of outdoor education programmes to positively influencing environmental attitudes (e.g. Bogner 1998; Bogner and Wiseman 2004; Fančovičová and Prokop 2011; Johnson and Manoli 2011; Kruse and Card 2004).”
Climate change education: quantitatively assessing the impact of a botanical garden as an informal learning environment (2013, background): “The cognitive achievement was constant even three months after the students’ participation (Fančovičová and Prokop 2011).”
Promoting connectedness with nature through environmental education (2013, background): “Increasing knowledge is important, but it is not sufficient to solve the world’s environmental problems (Fancovicova and Prokop 2011 ) as it does not form a strong motivational basis for protecting nature like connectedness does (e.”
Plant awareness disparity: A case for renaming plant blindness (2020, background): “A proposed way to alleviate “plant blindness” and its associated negative attitude toward plants in K-12 students is through an outdoor education program, where students have hands-on opportunities to interact with the plants (Fančovičová & Prokop, 2011).”