Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and
Primary School Students’ Attitudes
Toward and Knowledge about
Snakes

Iztok Tomažič

doi:10.12973/ejmste/75194

Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes

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Iztok Tomažič ¹ ^*

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¹ University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA^* Corresponding Author

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Snakes are controversial animals emblazoned by legends, but also endangered as a result of human prejudice and fear. The author investigated gender and age-related differences in attitudes to and knowledge of snakes comparing samples of school children and preservice teachers. It was found that although pre-service teachers had better knowledge of and more positive scientistic and moralistic attitudes toward snakes fear of snakes and willingness to pay for snake conservation was no statistically different between these two groups of participants. These results support the idea that better factual knowledge is not a sufficient precursor of attitudes toward harmful animals.

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animals
attitude
knowledge
pre-service teachers
snakes
students

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2011, Volume 7, Issue 3, 161-171

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Tomažič, I. (2011). Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 7(3), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194

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Tomažič I. Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2011;7(3):161-71. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194

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Tomažič I. Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2011;7(3), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194

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Tomažič, Iztok. "Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2011 7 no. 3 (2011): 161-171. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194

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Tomažič, I. (2011). Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 7(3), pp. 161-171. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194

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Tomažič, Iztok "Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ and Primary School Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge about Snakes". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 7, no. 3, 2011, pp. 161-171. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/75194