Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests
The article presents the results of research conducted in order to determine the comprehensibility (intelligibility) of the text of signs on educational paths in Warsaw’s city forests. This evaluation was carried out with the use of an online IT tool—Promovolt. The obtained results were confronted w...
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| author | Emilia Janeczko Rafał Wojtan Natalia Korcz Małgorzata Woźnicka |
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| description | The article presents the results of research conducted in order to determine the comprehensibility (intelligibility) of the text of signs on educational paths in Warsaw’s city forests. This evaluation was carried out with the use of an online IT tool—Promovolt. The obtained results were confronted with the assessment of users of educational paths and the opinion of an expert group, which consisted of people involved in the design of educational materials. The results indicate that the majority of the analyzed interpretative signs are dedicated to secondary school students because of the level of text comprehensibility. At the same time, 20% of the text is understandable only to recipients with higher education. This means that the educational paths in the urban forests of Warsaw, with interpretative signs allowing independent learning, do not sufficiently support the ecological education of children and youth from primary schools up to 15 years of age, as well as people with basic or vocational education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8cc29a607294a2d8ef4c8da4948795b2023-11-22T07:43:24ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-08-01128109110.3390/f12081091Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban ForestsEmilia Janeczko0Rafał Wojtan1Natalia Korcz2Małgorzata Woźnicka3Department of Forest Utilization, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Dendrometry and Forest Productivity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, PolandDepartment of Natural Forestry Basics, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, 13 Akademicka St., 20-950 Lublin, PolandDepartment of Forest Utilization, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, PolandThe article presents the results of research conducted in order to determine the comprehensibility (intelligibility) of the text of signs on educational paths in Warsaw’s city forests. This evaluation was carried out with the use of an online IT tool—Promovolt. The obtained results were confronted with the assessment of users of educational paths and the opinion of an expert group, which consisted of people involved in the design of educational materials. The results indicate that the majority of the analyzed interpretative signs are dedicated to secondary school students because of the level of text comprehensibility. At the same time, 20% of the text is understandable only to recipients with higher education. This means that the educational paths in the urban forests of Warsaw, with interpretative signs allowing independent learning, do not sufficiently support the ecological education of children and youth from primary schools up to 15 years of age, as well as people with basic or vocational education.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/8/1091recreational infrastructureforest educationforest didactic pathsPromovolt |
| spellingShingle | Emilia Janeczko Rafał Wojtan Natalia Korcz Małgorzata Woźnicka Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests Forests recreational infrastructure forest education forest didactic paths Promovolt |
| title | Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests |
| title_full | Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests |
| title_fullStr | Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests |
| title_short | Interpretative Signs as a Tool Supporting Informal Environmental Education on the Example of Warsaw’s Urban Forests |
| title_sort | interpretative signs as a tool supporting informal environmental education on the example of warsaw s urban forests |
| topic | recreational infrastructure forest education forest didactic paths Promovolt |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/8/1091 |
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