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Love, Learn, Protect: Assessing the short-term impact of Lisbon Zoo school education programs on 10-18 years old students
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At a time where populations are increasingly migrating to cities, Zoos are considered privileged locations, with the responsibility of creating bridges with the natural world. With millions of visitors every year, Zoos have a large audience that can be inspired into protecting wildlife. In order to achieve this mission, Lisbon Zoo delivers more than 30 School Education Programs, adjusted to students’ school curriculum, which represent a unique conservation engagement opportunity. As research has recently shown that people with deep emotional connections and more educated towards nature have stronger interest in its conservation, Lisbon Zoo Programs have at their core the three domains of environmental education: Emotional, Cognitive and Behavioural. Although smaller target evaluations have been internally conducted, the Programs have not yet been subject to an integrated in-depth impact assessment. The main goal of this study was to assess the short-term impact of Lisbon Zoo School Education Programs, by measuring the effect of three Programs on 10-18 years old students’ Emotion, Knowledge and Behaviour domains. Moreover, we aimed to understand how these domains interact with each other. We used a control-treatment design, with pre-post Program questionnaires that gathered both quantitative and qualitative data on students’ domains. All Programs revealed a positive cumulative influence on the three domains. Nonetheless, some specific outcomes, namely nature awareness, knowledge about ecosystems and evolution, concern about plants, and the ability to name useful pro-conservation actions, were not reached in all age groups. Regarding domains’ interaction, we found a positive relation between Emotion and Behaviour in 10-12 and 12-15 years old students and between Knowledge and Behaviour in 15-18 years old’s. These findings will be crucial in future development and implementation of Programs at Lisbon Zoo, supporting its Education Strategy of Educating for nature Conservation. Furthermore, they highlight the value of incorporating Emotion, Knowledge and Behaviour in successful behavior change education at Zoos, suggesting that a Love, Learn, Protect approach leads to positive conservational outcomes.
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Tese de mestrado, Biologia da Conservação, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2020
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Educação Ambiental Conservação Comportamento pró-ambiental Mudança comportamental Interação humano-animal Teses de mestrado - 2020