Native Plant Naming by High-School Students of Different Socioeconomic Status: Implications for Botany Education

Autor/inn/en	Bermudez, Gonzalo M. A.; Díaz, Sandra; De Longhi, Ana L.
Titel	Native Plant Naming by High-School Students of Different Socioeconomic Status: Implications for Botany Education
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, 40 (2018) 1, S.46-66 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bermudez, Gonzalo M. A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0693
DOI	10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297
Schlagwörter	Plants (Botany); High School Students; Socioeconomic Status; Foreign Countries; Biodiversity; Questionnaires; Naming; Identification; Science Education; Secondary School Teachers; Secondary School Science; Public Schools; Private Schools; Socioeconomic Influences; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pflanze; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Ausland; Biodiversität; Fragebogen; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Argentinien
Abstract	People's diminished awareness of plants, affected by anthropogenic environmental deterioration, has challenged science education to overcome the obstacles impeding a better understanding of their meaning and value. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the socioeconomic status of high-school students, as indicated by their attendance at private or state schools, on their knowledge of native plants. In total, 321 students aged 15-18 were asked to write down 10 plants native to Córdoba, Argentina, in a freelist questionnaire. Students listed a mean of 6.8 species of a total of 165 different categories of plant names. The majority of the species named were exotic to Córdoba (63%) or Argentina (50.6%, of which 33.8% were adventitious), indicating an "adventitious-to-native" effect by which all spontaneously reproducing plants were presumed to be native species. However, the 20 most frequently named plants were mainly native, with "Algarrobo" (Prosopis spp.) and "Espinillo" (Vachellia caven) being the most mentioned. Students' socioeconomic status had a significant effect on the number of species named, with the students of state schools (where the less well-off sectors of the society attend) mentioning more species and, among these, more native ones than the students from private schools. Furthermore, we defined size, colour and scent as being conspicuous traits of plant flowers that are relevant for human perception, and found that the most frequently named adventitious species, unlike the native ones, were those exhibiting big brightly-coloured flowers which ranged from being inodorous to having medium intensity scents. (As Provided).
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