Typifying conservation practitioners' views on the role of education.

ABSTRACT: Education is an established tool to enhance human-environment relationships, despite the lack of empirical evidence to support its use. We used theories of change to unpack assumptions about the role of education in conservation. We interviewed practitioners from 15 conservation organizations in Madagascar to typify implicit pathways of change and assess whether emerging pathways echo theoretical advances. Five pathways were drivers of change: increasing knowledge, changing emotional connection and changing traditional cultural practices, fostering leaders, diversifying outcomes, and influencing community and society. These pathways reflect existing sociopsychological theories on learning and behavioral change. Most interviewees' organizations had a predominant pathway that was often combi

SUBMITTER: Brias-Guinart A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543612 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature