TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Wadden Sea ecosystem is unique in many respects from a biological perspective. This is one reason why it is protected by national parks in Germany and by its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In biology didactics, there are only a few studies that focus on the Wadden Sea. This work investigates students’ word associations with the two stimulus words “national park” and “UNESCO World Heritage Site”. The survey was conducted among students living directly at the Wadden Sea and among students from the inland. The analysis of the identified associations (n = 8345) was carried out within the framework of a quantitative content analysis to be able to present and discuss the results on a group level. A statistically significant difference was found between the two groups. Overall, results showed that the students made subject-related associations as well as a large number of associations to both stimulus words that could be judged as non-subject-related. In some cases, a connection with the region of residence could be found, but this was not generally the case. Even students’ immediate residential proximity to the Wadden Sea is no guarantee that they have knowledge of the two considered protection terms.
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.3390/su13148006
KW  - biology education
KW  - didactics of biology
KW  - education for sustainable development
KW  - environmental education
KW  - word associations
KW  - quantitative content analysis
KW  - Wadden Sea
KW  - national park
KW  - UNESCO World Heritage Site
LA  - eng
IS  - 14
PY  - 2021
T2  - Sustainability
TI  - The Wadden Sea as a National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site: Students’ Word Associations with These Two Conservation Designations
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29562497
Y2  - 2024-11-21T17:31:30
ER  -