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Article

Students’ Interests in Biodiversity: Links with Health and Sustainability

by
Fernanda Franzolin
1,*,
Graça S. Carvalho
2,
Carolina Maria Boccuzzi Santana
1,†,
Andreia dos Santos Calegari
1,†,
Ester Aparecida Ely de Almeida
1,‡,
João Paulo Reis Soares
1,‡,
Jessica Jorge
1,
Franciele Dutra das Neves
1 and
Erika Romanholo Silva Lemos
1
1
Centre for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, Santo Andre 09210-580, Brazil
2
CIEC, Institute of Education, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
‡
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13767; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413767
Submission received: 31 October 2021 / Revised: 4 December 2021 / Accepted: 8 December 2021 / Published: 13 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biology Education and Health Education in Sustainability)
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that sustainable actions to preserve biodiversity are critical to preventing new microorganisms from harming human health. In this sense, education and encouraging young people’s interest in local biodiversity are crucial to promoting its preservation and sustainability. This research studied the biodiversity interests of 14–15-year-old students in São Paulo State, focusing on the links between biodiversity and human health. The criterion of maximum variation was used to constitute a heterogeneous sample of students. Students answered a four-point Likert questionnaire. The items in this questionnaire were divided into categories related to the interest of young people in biodiversity, and these were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Wilcoxon test). Categories of biodiversity linked to “health or human utility” were of higher interest to young people than those with no links to human benefits, such as “diversity of organisms”. These findings, along with the literature, showed that young people are interested in biodiversity issues associated with human health. Therefore, teaching biodiversity should reflect on new possibilities for making a more sustainable environment and promoting social and environmental justice, fundamental aspects of promoting and guaranteeing human health.
Keywords: pandemics; biodiversity preservation; secondary school; biology education pandemics; biodiversity preservation; secondary school; biology education

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Franzolin, F.; Carvalho, G.S.; Santana, C.M.B.; Calegari, A.d.S.; Almeida, E.A.E.d.; Soares, J.P.R.; Jorge, J.; Neves, F.D.d.; Lemos, E.R.S. Students’ Interests in Biodiversity: Links with Health and Sustainability. Sustainability 2021, 13, 13767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413767

AMA Style

Franzolin F, Carvalho GS, Santana CMB, Calegari AdS, Almeida EAEd, Soares JPR, Jorge J, Neves FDd, Lemos ERS. Students’ Interests in Biodiversity: Links with Health and Sustainability. Sustainability. 2021; 13(24):13767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413767

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Franzolin, Fernanda, Graça S. Carvalho, Carolina Maria Boccuzzi Santana, Andreia dos Santos Calegari, Ester Aparecida Ely de Almeida, João Paulo Reis Soares, Jessica Jorge, Franciele Dutra das Neves, and Erika Romanholo Silva Lemos. 2021. "Students’ Interests in Biodiversity: Links with Health and Sustainability" Sustainability 13, no. 24: 13767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413767

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Franzolin, F., Carvalho, G. S., Santana, C. M. B., Calegari, A. d. S., Almeida, E. A. E. d., Soares, J. P. R., Jorge, J., Neves, F. D. d., & Lemos, E. R. S. (2021). Students’ Interests in Biodiversity: Links with Health and Sustainability. Sustainability, 13(24), 13767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413767

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