"Love honey, hate honey bees': reviving biophilia of elementary school students through environmental education program
"Love honey, hate honey bees': reviving biophilia of elementary school students through environmental education program
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DOI：
10.1080/13504622.2017.1279277
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Lee, Dowon
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作者：
Cho, Yoori;Lee, Dowon
使用生物友善的术语“及其反应生物恐惧症”的情感亲和力和与自然的联系的概念仅在环境教育领域进行了研究。在这项研究中，假设儿童的负面情绪（生物恐惧症），例如对昆虫的恐惧可以通过环境教育计划将其变成亲和力（生物友善）。来自韩国首尔一所小学的一百四个三年级学生参加了Honey Bee环境教育计划，他们的情感变化是通过将自然纳入自然和与自然量表的联系来衡量的。计划实施后的结果表明，参与者对自然的亲和力得到了显着改善。这项实证研究表明，关于儿童最初感到害怕的昆虫的环境教育计划可以有效地克服对昆虫和自然的恐惧，并恢复先天的生物友善。尤其是，蜜蜂是提供无价生态系统服务的最关键的昆虫物种之一，可以成为环境教育计划的良好媒介，以促进儿童对自然的天生爱情。据作者所知，这项研究是第一个试图将昆虫介导的环境教育计划与儿童与自然的联系联系起来的研究。
The concept of emotional affinity and connection with nature using the term of biophilia' along with its counter-part biophobia' has been merely researched in the area of environmental education. In this study, it was hypothesized that children's negative emotions (biophobia) such as fear towards insects can be changed into affinity (biophilia) through an environmental education program. One hundred and four third-grade students from an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea participated in the honey bee environmental education program, and their emotional changes were measured with Inclusion of Nature in Self and Connectedness to Nature Scale. The result after the program implementation showed that the participants' affinity toward nature was significantly improved. This empirical study suggests that an environmental education programs on insects of which children initially feel scared can be effective in helping to overcome fear toward insects and nature, and to revive their innate biophilia. Especially, honey bees, one of the most crucial insect species providing priceless ecosystem services can be a good medium for environmental education program to promote children's innate love towards nature. This study, to the authors' knowledge, was the first research which attempted to link an insect-mediated environmental education program to children's connectedness to nature with the biophilia-biophobia approach.