Zoo Education

[zooed]

Good morning etc (depending on your time zone!)

I am currently strudying for my PGCE and specialising on the impact of Zoo visits on the learning of higher education students. Feedback form my students is really positive but I am looking for similar studies that I can compare my data with. If anyone knows of any I would be really grateful if you could push me in the right direction. Another thread I am following is the importance of animal presentations (something very important to me) in delivering an educational mesage, again relevant links to this would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[zelda]

There's stuff on the BIAZA website, and if you look at defras zoo licensing regulations you can see where education comes in there, but surely the best thing to do would be to contact your local zoo education dept.

When you say similar studies what do you mean? There're are a huge amount of visitor studies based in museums, but zoo visitors actually behave quite differently. Are you specifically interested in that demographic, or in the formal education aspect of zoo education? Or do you just want any educational impact research based in zoos?