The "place meaning" concept in education: a case study from the Bohemian Paradise protected landscape area, Czechia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10482733" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10482733 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-963-1-0311" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-963-1-0311</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-963-1-0311" target="_blank" >10.11118/978-80-7509-963-1-0311</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The "place meaning" concept in education: a case study from the Bohemian Paradise protected landscape area, Czechia
Original language description
The local landscape is a part of the space that surrounds people from childhood and offers them opportunities for cognitive, emotional, and psychomotor development. Students grow up within this landscape, forming a relationship with it, that can extend over large areas throughout their lives. This relationship can be influenced by the meanings that students attribute to the given territory. There is limited research focusing on the concept of "place meaning" in education. The presented study aims to fill this research gap. The respondents are 257 fifth-grade students from primary schools located in the Bohemian Paradise Protected Landscape Area and its immediate vicinity (44% of all fifth-grade students). Data was collected through field research using questionnaires and supplemented by interviews with students in focus groups. Responses were evaluated through content analysis, descriptive statistics, and statistical analysis. The results indicate that, with regard to specific places, students most commonly associate the term Bohemian Paradise with Trosky and Turnov. Additionally, students most commonly recognized these places in photographs. Students most commonly associate the Bohemian Paradise with adjectives such as "beautiful", "nice", and "protected". Boys recognized a greater number of important places in the Bohemian Paradise than girls, and overall, knowledge of these places significantly increases with the time children spend in nature. The results contribute to research on sense of place - an important theme of environmental education.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 15th Conference Public recreation and landscape protection – with environment hand in hand!
ISBN
978-80-7509-962-4
ISSN
2336-6311
e-ISSN
2336-632X
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
311-317
Publisher name
Mendel University in Brno
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Křtiny
Event date
May 13, 2024
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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