Petra Lindemann-Matthies
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 110528 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Petra Lindemann-Matthies |
| NOMBRES | Petra |
| APELLIDO | Lindemann-Matthies |
| FIRMA | LINDEMANN-MATTHIES P |
| AFILIACIONES | Karlsruhe University of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1876-5784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
One questionnaire—Two points in time
Concern has been raised that in recent decades knowledge of plant species has severely declined in western countries. However, in the absence of regularly repeated and standardized surveys, no reliable statement can be made as to whether plant species knowledge has actually declined in recent decades. The present study aimed to contribute to filling this knowledge gap by repeating a survey on the knowledge of plant species 20 years later. Laypeop…
Do Radishes and Carrots Grow in a Bunch? Students’ Knowledge about the Growth of Food Plants and Their Ideas of a School Garden Design
School gardens can be places of biodiversity and suitable learning environments for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). In particular, vegetable patches where students can make their own experiences in food growing are very apt to connect local acting and global thinking, which is one of the main concerns of ESD. Working in a school garden could be a chance to overcome the lack of perception and knowledge about plants and their life cycl…
Knowledge and perception of common local wild plant and animal species by children and their teachers – a case study from Switzerland
This study asked 241 primary children and their 13 teachers in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, to identify 136 local plant and animal species, which were shown to them as pictures. Children's age, gender, and experiences with nature were recorded to test for associations with species knowledge. Teachers identified 52% of the plants and 61% of the animals, while their pupils only knew 17% and 41% of the species, respectively (class means). Plant…
Associations between the naturalness of window and interior classroom views, subjective well-being of primary school children and their performance in an attention and concentration test
Perception of plant species richness by people with different nationalities—an experimental study
This study investigates with the help of a manipulative experiment how people with different nationalities perceive meadow-like arrays of different species richness (1, 8, 16, 32, 64 species). Participants (n = 187) were all residents of the canton of Zurich and originated from 43 different countries. Overall valuation of the meadow-like arrays increased with species richness. However, while participants from high-income countries (measured by GD…
An ESD pathway to quality education in the Cyprus primary education context
This research is based on the rationale that the well-defined framework of education for sustainable development (ESD), its connection with real life and its specific integration in the educational policies and curricula can help to enhance quality education (QE) in a meaningful and identifiable way. In a first step, the common ground of ESD and QE was explored in different areas: common dimensions, future-oriented objectives, commonly targeted s…
Seasonality, diversity and aesthetic valuation of landscape plots
Public Knowledge and Perception of Toads and Frogs in Three Areas of Subtropical Southeast China
This study investigated people’s perceptions and knowledge of toads and frogs in three areas of Southeast China: rural Gutian Shan, semi-rural Xin Gan Shan, and the city of Quzhou. In 2010, 672 randomly selected laypersons (between eight and 80 years old) were interviewed with the help of a standardized questionnaire and a picture test. Study participants named a variety of toads and frogs. The naming of a species and its actual identification on…
Public Knowledge of, and Attitudes to, Frogs in Colombia
People's response to the decline of biodiversity and their support for conservation measures depends on their knowledge of biodiversity and their attitudes to local species. This study is one of the first to investigate public knowledge of, and attitudes to, frogs in South America. We chose two study regions, the semi-urban region of Pensilvania and the rural region of Florencia. In spring 2011, 565 individuals completed a written questionnaire a…
Ethical Discourse on the Use of Genetically Modified Crops
The influence of plant diversity on people’s perception and aesthetic appreciation of grassland vegetation
The conservation of biodiversity critically depends on the value that humans attach to it. Apart from an ecological and economic value, an aesthetic value has often been assigned to biodiversity. However, it is not known whether lay people appreciate the diversity of species and not just certain individual species or nature as a whole. We studied in a series of experiments and field studies people’s perception and appreciation of species diversit…
The integration of biodiversity education in the initial education of primary school teachers
In this article, we present results from an international research study on biodiversity education in pre‐service education of primary school teachers. The study was carried out between 2004–2006 in four teacher education institutions in Cyprus, England, Switzerland and Germany. We used document analyses and in‐depth interviews with 27 teacher educators and 22 student teachers to examine the integration of biodiversity into the pre‐service teache…
How Many Species Are There? Public Understanding and Awareness of Biodiversity in Switzerland
‘Loveable’ mammals and ‘lifeless’ plants
This study investigated which plants and animals Swiss children found most attractive and evaluated the effect of an educational programme on children's preferences for species. More than 4000 pupils (8–16 years old) from 248 classes participated in the study. Possible effects of the programme were studied with the help of questionnaires using a pretest/post‐test design with an experimental group that participated in the programme and a control g…
Hochschulausbildungen im Umweltbereich werden immer ausgereifter – aber sind sie auch praxistauglich
Die Koordinationsstellen an den Schweizer Universitäten – Motor für die Förderung interdisziplinärökologischer Lehre und Forschung
Die meisten Schweizer Universitäten haben heute für die Koordination ihrer interdisziplinar-okologischen Lehre und Forschung spezielle Institutionen geschaffen. Die Bandbreite ist groB: Wasan einer Universiäit durch eine Verwaltungseinheit abgedeckt wird, ist anderswo Teil der Aufgaben eines Instituts oder gar eines Departements geworden. Wahrend die einen Studiengange entwickelt haben, die als Nebenfacher belegt werden können, haben andere Volls…
How Many Species Are There? Public Understanding and Awareness of Biodiversity in Switzerland
The integration of biodiversity education in the initial education of primary school teachers
In this article, we present results from an international research study on biodiversity education in pre‐service education of primary school teachers. The study was carried out between 2004–2006 in four teacher education institutions in Cyprus, England, Switzerland and Germany. We used document analyses and in‐depth interviews with 27 teacher educators and 22 student teachers to examine the integration of biodiversity into the pre‐service teache…
Public Knowledge of, and Attitudes to, Frogs in Colombia
People's response to the decline of biodiversity and their support for conservation measures depends on their knowledge of biodiversity and their attitudes to local species. This study is one of the first to investigate public knowledge of, and attitudes to, frogs in South America. We chose two study regions, the semi-urban region of Pensilvania and the rural region of Florencia. In spring 2011, 565 individuals completed a written questionnaire a…
Seasonality, diversity and aesthetic valuation of landscape plots
Public Knowledge and Perception of Toads and Frogs in Three Areas of Subtropical Southeast China
This study investigated people’s perceptions and knowledge of toads and frogs in three areas of Southeast China: rural Gutian Shan, semi-rural Xin Gan Shan, and the city of Quzhou. In 2010, 672 randomly selected laypersons (between eight and 80 years old) were interviewed with the help of a standardized questionnaire and a picture test. Study participants named a variety of toads and frogs. The naming of a species and its actual identification on…
An ESD pathway to quality education in the Cyprus primary education context
This research is based on the rationale that the well-defined framework of education for sustainable development (ESD), its connection with real life and its specific integration in the educational policies and curricula can help to enhance quality education (QE) in a meaningful and identifiable way. In a first step, the common ground of ESD and QE was explored in different areas: common dimensions, future-oriented objectives, commonly targeted s…
Die Koordinationsstellen an den Schweizer Universitäten – Motor für die Förderung interdisziplinärökologischer Lehre und Forschung
Die meisten Schweizer Universitäten haben heute für die Koordination ihrer interdisziplinar-okologischen Lehre und Forschung spezielle Institutionen geschaffen. Die Bandbreite ist groB: Wasan einer Universiäit durch eine Verwaltungseinheit abgedeckt wird, ist anderswo Teil der Aufgaben eines Instituts oder gar eines Departements geworden. Wahrend die einen Studiengange entwickelt haben, die als Nebenfacher belegt werden können, haben andere Volls…
Hochschulausbildungen im Umweltbereich werden immer ausgereifter – aber sind sie auch praxistauglich
‘Loveable’ mammals and ‘lifeless’ plants
This study investigated which plants and animals Swiss children found most attractive and evaluated the effect of an educational programme on children's preferences for species. More than 4000 pupils (8–16 years old) from 248 classes participated in the study. Possible effects of the programme were studied with the help of questionnaires using a pretest/post‐test design with an experimental group that participated in the programme and a control g…
How Many Species Are There? Public Understanding and Awareness of Biodiversity in Switzerland
The integration of biodiversity education in the initial education of primary school teachers
In this article, we present results from an international research study on biodiversity education in pre‐service education of primary school teachers. The study was carried out between 2004–2006 in four teacher education institutions in Cyprus, England, Switzerland and Germany. We used document analyses and in‐depth interviews with 27 teacher educators and 22 student teachers to examine the integration of biodiversity into the pre‐service teache…
The influence of plant diversity on people’s perception and aesthetic appreciation of grassland vegetation
The conservation of biodiversity critically depends on the value that humans attach to it. Apart from an ecological and economic value, an aesthetic value has often been assigned to biodiversity. However, it is not known whether lay people appreciate the diversity of species and not just certain individual species or nature as a whole. We studied in a series of experiments and field studies people’s perception and appreciation of species diversit…
Ethical Discourse on the Use of Genetically Modified Crops
Public Knowledge and Perception of Toads and Frogs in Three Areas of Subtropical Southeast China
This study investigated people’s perceptions and knowledge of toads and frogs in three areas of Southeast China: rural Gutian Shan, semi-rural Xin Gan Shan, and the city of Quzhou. In 2010, 672 randomly selected laypersons (between eight and 80 years old) were interviewed with the help of a standardized questionnaire and a picture test. Study participants named a variety of toads and frogs. The naming of a species and its actual identification on…
Public Knowledge of, and Attitudes to, Frogs in Colombia
People's response to the decline of biodiversity and their support for conservation measures depends on their knowledge of biodiversity and their attitudes to local species. This study is one of the first to investigate public knowledge of, and attitudes to, frogs in South America. We chose two study regions, the semi-urban region of Pensilvania and the rural region of Florencia. In spring 2011, 565 individuals completed a written questionnaire a…
An ESD pathway to quality education in the Cyprus primary education context
This research is based on the rationale that the well-defined framework of education for sustainable development (ESD), its connection with real life and its specific integration in the educational policies and curricula can help to enhance quality education (QE) in a meaningful and identifiable way. In a first step, the common ground of ESD and QE was explored in different areas: common dimensions, future-oriented objectives, commonly targeted s…
Seasonality, diversity and aesthetic valuation of landscape plots
Perception of plant species richness by people with different nationalities—an experimental study
This study investigates with the help of a manipulative experiment how people with different nationalities perceive meadow-like arrays of different species richness (1, 8, 16, 32, 64 species). Participants (n = 187) were all residents of the canton of Zurich and originated from 43 different countries. Overall valuation of the meadow-like arrays increased with species richness. However, while participants from high-income countries (measured by GD…
Associations between the naturalness of window and interior classroom views, subjective well-being of primary school children and their performance in an attention and concentration test
Do Radishes and Carrots Grow in a Bunch? Students’ Knowledge about the Growth of Food Plants and Their Ideas of a School Garden Design
School gardens can be places of biodiversity and suitable learning environments for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). In particular, vegetable patches where students can make their own experiences in food growing are very apt to connect local acting and global thinking, which is one of the main concerns of ESD. Working in a school garden could be a chance to overcome the lack of perception and knowledge about plants and their life cycl…
Knowledge and perception of common local wild plant and animal species by children and their teachers – a case study from Switzerland
This study asked 241 primary children and their 13 teachers in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, to identify 136 local plant and animal species, which were shown to them as pictures. Children's age, gender, and experiences with nature were recorded to test for associations with species knowledge. Teachers identified 52% of the plants and 61% of the animals, while their pupils only knew 17% and 41% of the species, respectively (class means). Plant…
One questionnaire—Two points in time
Concern has been raised that in recent decades knowledge of plant species has severely declined in western countries. However, in the absence of regularly repeated and standardized surveys, no reliable statement can be made as to whether plant species knowledge has actually declined in recent decades. The present study aimed to contribute to filling this knowledge gap by repeating a survey on the knowledge of plant species 20 years later. Laypeop…
Animal and Plant Science Education (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Urban Green Space and Health (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Biodiversity (4 obras) · Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 obras)