Interest in Birds and its Relationship with Attitudes and Myths: A Cross-cultural Study in Countries with Different Levels of Economic Development
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Tarih
2015
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Yayıncı
EDAM
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Birds are one of the most important species that can help protect biodiversity. Although birds are important beings for biodiversity and human existence, there is a relatively less quantity of research that has investigated the interest in and attitudes toward birds. This study aims to investigate the knowledge level of and attitudes toward birds among students in countries at different levels of economic development. To collect the data, a Bird Knowledge Questionnaire and a Bird Attitude Questionnaire were developed and used by the researchers in this study. These questionnaires were administered to a total of 852 students from different countries, including Colombia, Germany, Slovakia, and Turkey. The results obtained in this study showed that Colombian students had the highest interest in birds as compared to students in Slovakia, Turkey, and Germany. Girls had consistently higher interest in birds than boys in all countries, but there were no gender differences in the cognitive domain. Our research suggests that factual knowledge about birds is not a necessary prerequisite for interest in birds, but animal-related activities show strong associations with an interest in birds.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Attitudes, Birds, Cross-cultural study, Myths, Science education
Kaynak
EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES-THEORY & PRACTICE
WoS Q Değeri
Q4
Scopus Q Değeri
N/A
Cilt
15
Sayı
1
