@article {716,
	title = {THE VOCATIONAL UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOLS STUDENTS{\textquoteright} KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD WOLVES},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2018},
	month = {December/2018},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {918-934},
	abstract = {Wolf (Canis lupus) conservation is multidimensional. Its aspects include the consensus between different interest groups. The present research aimed to assess the attitude and knowledge of the students (N = 483 students from three schools age 14-19) enrolled in the environmentalist, veterinary and agricultural technician study programmes through a questionnaire, as their profession represents a part of this multidimensional consensus. The research results indicate that students have neutral to positive attitudes toward wolves, generally. Their knowledge of wolves, however, is limited. Agricultural technicians showed the most negative attitudes toward wolves and the lowest knowledge. Overall, correlations between all attitudinal dimensions and correlations between attitudinal dimensions and knowledge were found, with the highest correlations between conservation dimension and all other dimensions including knowledge. The research findings support the widespread assumption that education within the above-mentioned study programmes should focus also on the current socio-scientific issues of animal conservation. Special attention should be given to the education of agricultural technicians as their utilitarian view could interfere with the effective conservation of large carnivores. },
	keywords = {attitudes toward wolves, knowledge about wolves, vocational upper secondary school students},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {10.33225/jbse/18.17.918},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1544775838.pdf},
	author = {Vesna Ora{\v z}em and Iztok Toma{\v z}i{\v c}}
}
@article {571,
	title = {PRE-SERVICE BIOLOGY TEACHERS{\textquoteright} REPORTED FEAR AND DISGUST OF ANIMALS AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO INCORPORATE LIVE ANIMALS INTO THEIR TEACHING THROUGH STUDY YEARS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2017},
	month = {June/2017},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {337-349},
	abstract = {In this research, the self-reported fear and disgust toward animals of pre-service biology teachers and their willingness to incorporate live animals into their teaching were assessed with a questionnaire. An entire generation of pre-service biology teachers (N = 128) participated in this research. The results show that students are mostly afraid of animals that are potentially dangerous to humans such as large predators and are disgusted mostly by animals that are small and wet looking, like a slug. The students were less willing to incorporate animals that they reported to be most fearful or disgusting into their teaching. Considering that throughout their study years, there was practically no change in students{\textquoteright} levels of fear, disgust and willingness to incorporate live animals into their teaching calls for an improvement of the biology teacher education study programme in order to train teachers that are skilled and willing to use live animals in their teaching. One of the solutions could be offering pre-service teachers as many first-hand experiences with live animals as possible either in a formal learning environment, such as the university or, in case of large animals (predators), in informal learning environments, like a zoo or a national park.},
	keywords = {disgust of animals, fear of animals, pre-service teachers, students beliefs},
	isbn = {E-ISSN 2538-7138},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/17.16.337},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/987-1497963955.pdf},
	author = {Iztok Toma{\v z}i{\v c} and Nina Pihler and Jelka Strgar}
}
@article {263,
	title = {A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY OF PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY AND SCIENCE TEACHERS{\textquoteright} CREATIVITY STYLES},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2012},
	month = {September/2012},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {285-292 },
	abstract = {1799 prospective teachers (596 males, 1203 females), enrolled in various departments (elementary school teaching and science teaching) in selected universities in Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey, answered questionnaire on creativity styles. From the results of present study we can recognize that creativity potential of prospective elementary and science teachers is more on the adaptors{\textquoteright} side than on the side of innovators. The differences between prospective teachers, originating from different countries, study tracks and of different genders, even if statistically significant, are small (Cohen{\textquoteright}s d below 0.2). From the perspective of the teacher educators it can mean that similar methods to enhance creativity can be used.},
	keywords = {creativity styles, prospective elementary teachers, Prospective Science Teachers},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/12.11.285},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/987-1419168605.pdf},
	author = {Andrej {\v S}orgo and Vincentas Lamanauskas and Slavica {\v S}imi{\'c} {\v S}a{\v s}i{\'c} and Milan Kubiatko and Pavol Prokop and Jana Fan{\v c}ovi{\v c}ova and Martin Bilek and Iztok Toma{\v z}i{\v c} and Mehmet Erdogan}
}
@article {216,
	title = {EMOTIONS EXPRESSED TOWARD GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS},
	journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2011},
	month = {March/2011},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {53-64 },
	abstract = {Active student-centered instructional methods bring more emotion into science teaching, especially in the case of socioscientific issues, like research on and usage of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We tested the strength of ten basic emotions (fear, anger, joy, disgust, sadness, shame, contempt, guilt, surprise and interest) toward different GMOs. Students expressed high levels of interest, surprise and joy towards GMOs, emotions that could be used as possible motivators to raise the level of interest in Science. Students do not express an equal level of negative emotions toward GMOs as a general category, but take a standpoint towards each item or practice separately. Knowing this, the teacher can choose list of GMOs ranked from more acceptable to the least acceptable GMOs, to avoid any obstruction of reasoning toward GMOs based on strong negative emotions.},
	keywords = {genetically modified organisms, pre-service teachers, secondary school students},
	issn = {1648-3898},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/987-1405173429.pdf},
	author = {Andrej {\v S}orgo and Jana Ambro{\v z}i{\v c} Dolin{\v s}ek and Iztok Toma{\v z}i{\v c} and Franc Jan{\v z}ekovi{\v c}}
}
