Birds in the playground: Evaluating the effectiveness of an urban environmental education project in enhancing school children’s awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards local wildlife

Rachel L. White; Katie Eberstein; Dawn M. Scott

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193993

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Birds in the playground: Evaluating the effectiveness of an urban environmental education project in enhancing school children’s awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards local wildlife

Rachel L. White ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r.white2@brighton.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0694-7847

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Katie Eberstein,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Brighton and Hove environmental education, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Dawn M. Scott

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Birds in the playground: Evaluating the effectiveness of an urban environmental education project in enhancing school children’s awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards local wildlife

Rachel L. White,
Katie Eberstein,
Dawn M. Scott

Published: March 6, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193993

About the Authors

Rachel L. White

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r.white2@brighton.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0694-7847

Katie Eberstein

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Brighton and Hove environmental education, Sussex Wildlife Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom

Dawn M. Scott

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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