The effect of animal welfare education interpretative program on students' knowledge and attitude toward animal welfare

• Main Authors: Yi-Ru,Liu, 劉依如
• Other Authors: Shiun-Mei Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59466013660426170693

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 98 === Animals that are kept in captivity by zoo provide many people opportunities to interact closely with wildlife. Therefore, zoo education serves important role for communicating accurate information. Recent years, as animal protection and welfare gained its importance, maintaining physical and mental wellbeing of the zoo animals and allowing them to display their nature behaviors had become a major challenge for the zoo to accomplish animal welfare. This study employs “animal welfare” as the main topic of the interpretive program. Through experimental research, fourth grade students of Taipei City were engaged in interpretive program Pre and post surveys were used to measure the differences of knowledge and attitude regarding animal welfare caused by the program. The analyzed results are as follow: 1.The students demonstrate significant differences on the average score of knowledge and attitude tests. This indicates that the immerse of animal welfare education into interpretive activity in this research had effectively enhanced animal welfare knowledge and attitude of the engaged students. 2.Pet raising experience of students can result in differences on the students’ learning about animal welfare knowledge. Non-experience students display higher learning achievement than those of students with pet raising experience. As a result, the researcher advices the Taipei Zoo to continuously strive for better animal welfare. Through improving contents of exhibit displays or modifying guided tours, the zoo can assist the general public to further understand and gain more literacy on animal welfare.