Making biodiversity meaningful through environmental education

La Biodiversidad en el contexto Educativo. Múltiples miradas en el escenario mundial

“…Los propósitos varían, al hacer énfasis en: a) La biodiversidad como un tema de la EA y de la EDS; b) Como estrategia del programa de la EA y la EDS; c) Formación ciudadana y d) Alfabetización ecológica. (Collins, 2012;Fernández, 2000;Helldén, et al, 2008;Kanno, et al, 2011;Kobori, 2009;Lindemann, 2002;McLaughlin, et al, 2006;Menzel, et al, 2009;Menzel, et al, 2010;Ramadoss, et al, 2011;Ulbrich, et al, 2010;Van Weelie, et al, 2002).…”

Teaching Species Identification – A Prerequisite for Learning Biodiversity and Understanding Ecology

“…Also, to illustrate material flow and functioning of ecosystems, this approach needs discrete species to make the facts more understandable. Biodiversity has become a challenging educational topic, enforced by the conference of Rio in 1992 (van Weelie andWals 2002;Gaston and Spicer 2004). Today, the value -even in currency -and the general importance of biodiversity is unquestioned (Gaston and Spicer 2004).…”

“…Such complex and abstract constructs usually have to be transformed into smaller entities to aid learning and understanding especially in school students, and of course, also in the general public. The most common entity used by conservation groups are species (van Weelie and Wals 2002). Especially spectacular species, such as the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis, Dalton 2005) or dolphins (Barney et al 2005) were used as a venue in environmental education and conservation.…”

“…& Tech. Ed., 4(3), 223-231 terms of educational circumstances (van Weelie and Wals 2002). Such complex and abstract constructs usually have to be transformed into smaller entities to aid learning and understanding especially in school students, and of course, also in the general public.…”

Environmental Education and Biodiversity Concern: Beyond the Ecological Literacy

“…In their article, they argue that although biodiversity conservation has increasingly gained recognition, biodiversity itself is considered an ill-defined concept, based on what is said by Dreyfus et al (1999); Kassas (2002a) and Weelie and Wals (2002). Besides this lack of clarity, they also state that biodiversity needs to be integrated outside the box of natural sciences.…”