scholarly journals Field trip to Kazdagi National Park: Views of prospective Biology teachers

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 823-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cetin Gulcan



1956 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene Craft Lefebre

The Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska has for many years solicited information concerning archaeological sites in Athabaskan as well as Eskimo territory from trappers, prospectors, casual travelers, and residents. One of the more likely reports, received from B. A. Stone of Medfra, Alaska, concerned the Lake Telida region. Lake Telida is located about 1/2 mile from the McKinley Fork, called the Tatlathno River in early accounts (Herron 1901), of the Upper Kuskokwim drainage. It is about 100 miles southwest of Lake Minchumina and is northwest of Mt. McKinley National Park (see Fig. 82).During the summer of 1949 2 students of the University of Alaska, Leona Neubarth Lowery and George Schumann, and the author conducted a field trip into this area. This trip was made possible by the author's appointment to the Margaret Snell Graduate Fellowship of the American Association of University Women, to which I should like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude.



Author(s):  
Fabrício Lemos Siqueira Mendes ◽  
Raul Ivan Raiol de Campos ◽  
Sílvia Helena Ribeiro Cruz ◽  
Helena Doris de Almeida Barbosa Quaresma

O ecoturismo é considerado uma atividade geralmente de baixo impacto ambiental, orientado às localidades onde haja área de significativo valor ambiental e cultural. E, que pode, conforme suas atividades recreacionais e educativas, contribuir para a conservação da biodiversidade e sociodiversidade local. Neste sentido, o conceito de ecoturismo é apresentado como visita a ambientes naturais, tendo o mínimo de impacto por seus visitantes sobre a diversidade local. Exemplo disso é Jericoacoara, localizado à 320 km da capital Fortaleza (CE), onde sua diversidade, como um todo, é extremamente propícia a este segmento do turismo. Nele, se destaca o Parque Nacional de Jericoacoara (PNJ) apresentando uma área de 8.850,00 hectares que abrange oito ecossistemas. O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever a percepção dos discentes do Curso de Turismo da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) a partir da visita técnica, como parte de suas atividades acadêmicas desenvolvidos durante o curso. A metodologia utilizada foi a partir da aplicação de questionário com perguntas semiestruturada e fechadas. Este foi direcionado à trilha realizada no PNJ. O público-alvo foram 27 discentes do Curso de Turismo da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). A visita técnica foi realizada no mês de novembro de 2015. Após a coleta dos dados, estes foram inseridos na planilha do Office Excel. Posteriormente, os dados foram tabulados em valores absolutos, seguidamente calculados os valores relativos. Os resultados apontam que a maioria dos discentes nunca realizaram uma trilha, e informaram que a principal dificuldade encontrada durante a caminhada foram a elevada temperatura e o percurso longo. Dentre o principal aspecto natural que mais chamou a atenção foi a vegetação local, e que o local oferece risco de acidentes durante o percurso. Com relação ao lixo e saneamento local, a maioria informou que não percebeu nada de anormal durante a caminhada na trilha. Porém, com relação aos ruídos e vandalismo, as respostas foram positivas. E, para finalizar os discentes responderam que, do ponto ecoturístico, o local é bom para o desenvolvimento deste segmento. Deste modo, concluiu-se que os discentes do Curso de Turismo da UFPA apresentam boa percepção da trilha do PNJ, uma vez que durante o percurso a observação para diversos aspectos foram notadas, sejam elas positivas ou negativas; comprovando deste modo que o trabalho teórico realizado durante o curso tem aguçado a percepção dos discentes durante essas vistas técnicas. The perception of the Jericoacoara National Park by UFPA tourism students ABSTRACT Ecotourism is considered a low environmental impact activity, guided to locations where there is area of significant environmental and cultural values. And it can contribute to the conservation of local biodiversity and social diversity, due to its recreational and educational activities. In this direction, the concept of ecotourism is presented as visiting natural environments, having minimal visitor impact on local diversity. An example of this is Jericoacoara, located 320 km from the capital Fortaleza (CE), where its diversity is extremely favorable to tourism activities. Inside of it, is also located the Jericoacoara National Park (JNP) an area of 8850.00 hectares consisting of eight ecosystems. The objective of this study is to describe the perception of tourism students of Federal University of Pará (UFPA), based upon a technical field trip, as part of their academic activities developed during their coursework. The methodology included a questionnaire with semi-structured and closed questions, which was applied during the trail at the JNP. The audience was 27 tourism students of UFPA. The field trip took place in November 2015. The collected data were inserted in the Excel Office spreadsheet, then tabulated and calculated their absolute and relative values. The results indicate that most of the students never walked on a trail and they reported that the main difficulties encountered during the walk were high temperature and the long itinerary. The natural aspect that drew the most attention was the local vegetation, but the environment offers risk of accidents during the itinerary. Regarding the waste and local sanitation, most of the students said that they did not see anything unusual while walking on the trail. However, with regard to noise and vandalism, the answers were affirmative. Finally, the students answered, based upon ecotourism perspective, that the area is adequate to the development of this activity. Thus, it was concluded that the students have a good perception of the JNP trail, because during the walk observations of many aspects were noted, whether positive or negative, proving thereby that the theoretical study done during the coursework has sharpened the perception of students during the field trip. KEYWORDS: Ecotourism; Perception; Jericoacoara.



1977 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Roy K. Baer
Keyword(s):  


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-349
Author(s):  
Iztok Tomažič ◽  
Nina Pihler ◽  
Jelka Strgar

In this research, the self-reported fear and disgust toward animals of pre-service biology teachers and their willingness to incorporate live animals into their teaching were assessed with a questionnaire. An entire generation of pre-service biology teachers (N = 128) participated in this research. The results show that students are mostly afraid of animals that are potentially dangerous to humans such as large predators and are disgusted mostly by animals that are small and wet looking, like a slug. The students were less willing to incorporate animals that they reported to be most fearful or disgusting into their teaching. Considering that throughout their study years, there was practically no change in students’ levels of fear, disgust and willingness to incorporate live animals into their teaching calls for an improvement of the biology teacher education study programme in order to train teachers that are skilled and willing to use live animals in their teaching. One of the solutions could be offering pre-service teachers as many first-hand experiences with live animals as possible either in a formal learning environment, such as the university or, in case of large animals (predators), in informal learning environments, like a zoo or a national park. Keywords: disgust of animals, students beliefs, fear of animals, pre-service teachers.





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