Definition: Actions directed at people to improve understanding and skills, and influence behavior
Exposition: This class obviously overlaps a bit with 7. External Capacity Building; actions in this class tend to target individuals rather than organizations.
4.1 Formal Education
Definition: Enhancing knowledge and skills of students in a formal degree program
Examples:
public schools
colleges & universities
continuing education
4.2 Training
Definition: Enhancing knowledge, skills and information exchange for practitioners, stakeholders, and other relevant individuals in structured settings outside of degree programs
Exposition: This category refers to training outside of formal degree programs.
Examples:
monitoring workshops or training courses in reserve design for park managers
learning networks or writing how-to manuals for project managers
stakeholder education on specific issues
4.3 Awareness & Communications
Definition: Raising environmental awareness and providing information through various media or through civil disobedience
Exposition: This is a large category that involves many different efforts to raise awareness about conservation issues in specific stakeholder groups and the general public. There is a grey area between general awareness campaigns which belong in this category versus campaigns to enact specific legislation which belong in 5. Law & Policy. Many mainstream conservation organizations do not use the more disruptive and illegal forms of moral confrontation — inclusion of them in an effort to make this taxonomy comprehensive should by no means constitute an endorsement of them.
4 Education & Awareness
Definition: Actions directed at people to improve understanding and skills, and influence behavior
Exposition: This class obviously overlaps a bit with 7. External Capacity Building; actions in this class tend to target individuals rather than organizations.
4.1 Formal Education
Definition: Enhancing knowledge and skills of students in a formal degree program
Examples:
4.2 Training
Definition: Enhancing knowledge, skills and information exchange for practitioners, stakeholders, and other relevant individuals in structured settings outside of degree programs
Exposition: This category refers to training outside of formal degree programs.
Examples:
4.3 Awareness & Communications
Definition: Raising environmental awareness and providing information through various media or through civil disobedience
Exposition: This is a large category that involves many different efforts to raise awareness about conservation issues in specific stakeholder groups and the general public. There is a grey area between general awareness campaigns which belong in this category versus campaigns to enact specific legislation which belong in 5. Law & Policy. Many mainstream conservation organizations do not use the more disruptive and illegal forms of moral confrontation — inclusion of them in an effort to make this taxonomy comprehensive should by no means constitute an endorsement of them.
Examples: