Urban and Rural Children’s Knowledge on Biodiversity in Bizkaia: Tree Identification Skills and Animal and Plant Listing.

  1. Díez, Joserra 1
  2. Meñika, Ainhoa
  3. Sanz-Azkue, Iñaki
  4. Ortuzar, Arritokieta 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Revista:
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Año de publicación: 2018

Volumen: 12(3)

Páginas: 427-431

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.1316197 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Resumen

Biodiversity provides humans with a great range of ecosystemic services; it is therefore an indispensable resource and a legacy to coming generations. However, in the last decades, the increasing exploitation of the Planet has caused a great loss of biodiversity and its acquaintance has decreased remarkably; especially in urbanized areas, due to the decreasing attachment of humans to nature. Yet, the Primary Education curriculum primes the identification of flora and fauna to guarantee the knowledge of children on their surroundings, so that they care for the environment as well as for themselves. In order to produce effective didactic material that meets the needs of both teachers and pupils, it is fundamental to diagnose the current situation. In the present work, the knowledge on biodiversity of 3rd cycle Primary Education students in Biscay (n=98) and its relation to the size of the town/city of their school is discussed. Two tests have been used with such aim: one for tree identification and the other one so that the students enumerated the species of trees and animals they knew. Resultsreveal that knowledge of students on tree identification is scarce regardless the size of the city/town and of their school. On the otherhand, animal species are better known than tree species.