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Species identification skills in teacher education students: the role of attitude, context and experience
International Journal of Science Education ( IF 2.518 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-23 , DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2021.1928326
Claudia Melis 1 , Gabriella Falcicchio 2 , Per-Arvid Wold 1 , Anna Maria Billing 1
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ABSTRACT

Knowledge about local species and a positive attitude towards all living organisms are important to motivate the next generations to protect biodiversity. We compared local species identification skills and declared attitude towards invertebrates across genders in Italian and Norwegian students in teacher education. We focused on Norway and Italy for this comparative study, because of their different teaching traditions and relationships with outdoor education. We found a significant difference in local species identification skills between Italian and Norwegian students, who could identify 21% and 57% of the species, respectively. Overall, females had a more negative attitude towards invertebrates than males. However, Norwegian women had a more positive attitude towards invertebrates than Italian women did. Our result could reflect both differences in time spent in nature and teaching programs between countries. We also found a positive correlation between species identification skills and declared interest towards invertebrates. We discuss several approaches that could help to address this issue, in order for future teachers to become more aware of the risk that their biophobic attitude is transferred to the next generation with negative effects on biodiversity conservation.



中文翻译:

教师教育学生的物种识别技能:态度、背景和经验的作用

摘要

关于当地物种的知识和对所有生物的积极态度对于激励下一代保护生物多样性很重要。我们比较了意大利和挪威学生在教师教育中的当地物种识别技能和对不同性别无脊椎动物的态度。由于挪威和意大利不同的教学传统以及与户外教育的关系,我们在这项比较研究中将重点放在了挪威和意大利。我们发现意大利和挪威学生在当地物种识别技能上存在显着差异,他们可以分别识别 21% 和 57% 的物种。总体而言,女性对无脊椎动物的态度比男性更消极。然而,挪威女性对无脊椎动物的态度比意大利女性更积极。我们的结果可以反映国家之间在大自然中花费的时间和教学计划的差异。我们还发现物种识别技能与对无脊椎动物的兴趣之间存在正相关关系。我们讨论了可以帮助解决这个问题的几种方法,以便未来的教师更加意识到他们的生物恐惧态度会转移到下一代对生物多样性保护产生负面影响的风险。

更新日期:2021-05-23
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