Changing stigma on wild animals: a qualitative assessment of urban pupils’ pre- and post-lesson drawings
Journal
Environmental Education Research
Journal Volume
26
Journal Issue
6
Pages
830-848
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Abstract
To fight the stigma attached to wild animals, we designed an environmental education lesson for urban pupils to enhance their understanding of and to transform their perceptions of wild animals. To assess the outcomes of our lesson, we designed pre- and post-lesson drawing assessments based on qualitative research methods. We recruited 27 urban pupils from a public elementary school in Taipei city as participants. From the pre-lesson drawing assessment, we identified four types of stigma. We compared the participants’ drawings before and after the lesson and constructed four types of destigmatized perceptions of wild animals. The reflection on stigma attached to wild animals and our subsequent practice of eliminating stigma may serve as a means of improving the human-wild animal relationship and enhance our conservation efforts in a posthuman perspective. © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Subjects
drawing; qualitative evaluation; Stigma; urban pupils; wild animals
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Type
journal article