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Effective Environmental Education through Half-Day Teaching Programmes Outside School

Jürgen Drissner,H. Haase,A. Rinderknecht,Katrin Hille

Published 2013 in ISRN Education

ABSTRACT

The “Green Classroom” in the Botanical Garden of the University of Ulm is a learning forum outside school. Its educational concept is based on experiential learning and is geared towards expanding students’ biological knowledge and developing positive attitudes towards small animals such as invertebrates. In the first study, we assessed attitudes towards small animals of 43 students before and after they visited the “Green Classroom”, and we compared the answers they gave in their questionnaires with those of 46 students from a control group. Although the students spent only one morning in the “Green Classroom”, some of their attitudes improved after their visit. In the second study, 102 secondary-school students (56 who had previously visited the “Green Classroom”) were asked to write an essay about small animals. Students who had visited the “Green Classroom” before portrayed more positive emotions towards small animals and showed more biological understanding than their peers.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Venue

    ISRN Education

  • Publication date

    2013-06-06

  • Fields of study

    Education, Environmental Science, Psychology

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1155/2013/503214
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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