Language fouls in teaching ecology: Why traditional metaphors undermine conservation literacy;Errores de lenguaje al enseñar ecología: Porqué las metáforas tradicionales socavan la cultura de conservación

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 669-674

  Cachelin, Adrienne ^a   Norvell, Russell ^b   Darling, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation education; Conservation literacy; Ecological literacy; Linguistic framing; Sapir Whorf hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANGUAGE; LITERACY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STUDENT; TEACHING; TEXTBOOK;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LINGUISTICS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77956571773     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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