A Research On Awareness of Zoos: Landscape Architecture Students

Year 2019, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 59 - 69, 30.06.2019

İpek Turan , Emine Malkoç True

Abstract

Nowadays, many environmental
organisations are trying to attract attention to the awareness against
questioning the goals of zoos. Despite educating, the public about conservation
there has been much discussion on how efficient zoos are at doing this. In this
context, the main aim of this study is to measure the landscape architecture
students’ knowledge about conservation and zoos; to query the main role of the
zoos and to increase the awareness of the landscape architecture students on
zoos who have many lectures on environmental issues during their educational
period.

The main the material of the
research is the students who are educating at Ege University Agriculture
Faculty Landscape Architecture Department. The University is located in
Bornova, which is a metropolitan district of Izmir.

The study was considered in
four main sections, namely, conceptual framework, data collection, findings,
discussion and conclusion. After an initial search of the literature, a
questionnaire form was prepared. To compare the awareness level, the
questionnaire was conducted to 1^st, 2^nd, 3^th and
4^th year students of Landscape Architecture of Ege University
Agriculture Faculty where the period of undergraduate study is four years.
“Simple Random Sampling Method” was used in the determination of the number of
the students on which questionnaire would be conducted, 95 % confidence level
and 0.10 sampling error was taken as a basis in the calculations. In the calculation,
according to the total number of students which is 391 that the sum of 21 first
grade, 18 the second grade, 20 third grade and 26 fourth grade students were
used as “Population Size (N)” and the number of students on which the
questionnaire would be conducted was determined as 85 at the end. It was aimed
at learning each level of the students’ opinions and awareness of the subject
using these questions.

The literature studies on the
subject and the information found from the questionnaires were analysed and it
was evaluated whether the education of four years on environmental issues has
changed the opinions/awareness and the approach of the students to zoos. The
approaches of the social and landscape architecture students towards zoos were
examined together and the necessity of zoos were questioned. Finally,
recommendations to increase the awareness towards zoos were made.

Keywords

Zoo, landscape architecture, University students' awareness

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