Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques

Dr Martha Monroe is an extension specialist in natural resources education and associate professor in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She provides support to a variety of environmental education programs and teaches courses in conservation behaviour, communication and environmental education program development. Her work in environmental education spans over 25 years of teaching youngsters, facilitating teacher workshops, developing curriculum, and evaluating programs. She holds a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan. Dr Monroe has conducted teacher workshops, surveyed programs, and led EE training programs in Botswana, Namibia, Jordan, Russia, Tonga, Fiji, Malaysia, Chile, and Thailand.

• Introduction ; 1. Designing successful conservation education and outreach ; 2. Learning and teaching with adults and youth ; 3. Changing conservation behaviors ; 4. Conservation education in the schools ; 5. Making conservation come alive ; 6. Using the arts for conservation ; 7. Connecting classes and communities with conservation ; 8. Networking for conservation ; 9. Marketing conservation ; 10. Getting out your message with the written word ; 11. Taking advantage of educational technology ; 12. Designing on-site activities ; References ; Index

This is an excellent text. It has brought together a wide range of activities and ideas which will make the work of the conservation educator (and in most cases any educator!) that much easier. Overall, this book should be required reading in all conservation education classes and indeed any teacher-training class. British Ecological Societys Teaching Ecology Group