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People’s diminished awareness of plants, affected by anthropogenic environmental deterioration, has challenged science education to overcome the obstacles impeding a better understanding of their meaning and value. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the socioeconomic status of high-school students, as indicated by their attendance at private or state schools, on their knowledge of native plants. In total, 321 students aged 15–18 were asked to write down 10 plants native to Córdoba, Argentina, in a freelist questionnaire. Students listed a mean of 6.8 species of a total of 165 different categories of plant names. The majority of the species named were exotic to Córdoba (63%) or Argentina (50.6%, of which 33.8% were adventitious), indicating an ‘adventitious-to-native’ effect by which all spontaneously reproducing plants were presumed to be native species. However, the 20 most frequently named plants were mainly native, with ‘Algarrobo’ (Prosopis spp.) and ‘Espinillo’ (Vachellia caven) being the most mentioned. Students’ socioeconomic status had a significant effect on the number of species named, with the students of state schools (where the less well-off sectors of the society attend) mentioning more species and, among these, more native ones than the students from private schools. Furthermore, we defined size, colour and scent as being conspicuous traits of plant flowers that are relevant for human perception, and found that the most frequently named adventitious species, unlike the native ones, were those exhibiting big brightly-coloured flowers which ranged from being inodorous to having medium intensity scents. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Título:Native plant naming by high-school students of different socioeconomic status: implications for botany education
Autor:Bermudez, G.M.A.; Díaz, S.; De Longhi, A.L.
Filiación:Departamento de Enseñanza de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Córdoba, Argentina
CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Diversidad Biológica y Ecología, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV-CONICET) and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Córdoba, Argentina
Palabras clave:biological diversity; Botany teaching; floral traits; plant blindness; school sector
Año:2018
Volumen:40
Número:1
Página de inicio:46
Página de fin:66
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297
Título revista:International Journal of Science Education
Título revista abreviado:Int. J. Sci. Educ.
ISSN:09500693
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09500693_v40_n1_p46_Bermudez

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Bermudez, G.M.A., Díaz, S. & De Longhi, A.L. (2018) . Native plant naming by high-school students of different socioeconomic status: implications for botany education. International Journal of Science Education, 40(1), 46-66.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297
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Bermudez, G.M.A., Díaz, S., De Longhi, A.L. "Native plant naming by high-school students of different socioeconomic status: implications for botany education" . International Journal of Science Education 40, no. 1 (2018) : 46-66.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297
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Bermudez, G.M.A., Díaz, S., De Longhi, A.L. "Native plant naming by high-school students of different socioeconomic status: implications for botany education" . International Journal of Science Education, vol. 40, no. 1, 2018, pp. 46-66.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297
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Bermudez, G.M.A., Díaz, S., De Longhi, A.L. Native plant naming by high-school students of different socioeconomic status: implications for botany education. Int. J. Sci. Educ. 2018;40(1):46-66.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1397297