23rd BIENNIAL CONFERENCE BUENOS AIRES 2016 by Fundación Temaikèn

INTERNATIONAL ZOO EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION BIENNIAL CONFERENCE BUENOS AIRES 2016 HOSTED BY:

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The 23rd International Zoo Educators Association Biennial Conference - Buenos Aires 2016 has been possible thanks to the unconditional support of the Association Board members, the cooperation of Temaikèn's management and the commitment of the following professionals from Temaikèn Foundation:

Damián Pellandini CEO Eduardo Francisco Scientific Director María Laura Schiffrin Bárbara Reich Directors - IZE 2016

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Paola Salem General Assistant – IZE 2016 Education Department Eric Sambón Laura Susana López Ojeda María Alejandra Romeo María de los Ángeles Sardou Legal Department Analía Saettone Behavioral husbandry Cristian Gillet Julio Reynoso

Logistics Sergio Rebagliati Paola Orlando Carolina Pérez Castro Laura Cymlich Lucas Tozonotto Administration Juan Pablo Remón Víctor Bermúdez Alcides Godoy María Luz Mayor Purchases Máximo DeNotta Luis Marangón Gastronomy Vanesa Fernández Communication Gastón Basso Dastugue Gerardo Alfonso Florencia Roqueta Julieta Vaca Rossi María Emilia Garro IT Department Héctor Calinas Sebastián Vidal

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INDEX Welcome letters ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 06 About IZE ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 08 Crafting Effective Narratives ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 09 Schedule ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 The conference: from A to Z ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Keynote speaker: Pedro Tarak ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Keynote speaker: Suzana Machado Padua .............................................................................................................................................................................. 19

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Welcome letter

RACHEL LOWRY President IZE

Welcome to the 23rd Biennial Conference of the International Zoo Educators (IZE) Association. The IZE Board have been working closely with the incredible team at Temaikèn Foundation for the past two years, to create a conference that celebrates the fun, creative and essential work of zoo-based education, whilst providing the opportunity to build the capacity of the IZE network at the very heart of what we do best, storytelling. The 2016 IZE conference theme, Crafting Effective Narratives is a fitting description of the challenge that we face as zoo and aquarium educators. Educators are storytellers. At a time when we are losing more species to human-driven threats than ever before, our wildlife and wild places need zoos and aquariums to lend their voice to tell their stories. To do this well, we will need to be strategic with what stories we tell, how we tell them and of course how we evaluate them. Do our stories make people feel, understand or act differently towards animals or a particular species after they’ve experienced them? Are they powerful enough to motivate social movements to help fight extinction? I’ve had the privilege of attending IZE conferences since 2006, and have seen firsthand the growth and capacity of the IZE community to rise to the challenge of ensuring that experiences within zoos and aquariums are both fun and meaningful. Each time we share our experiences and learn from each other, we grow stronger. I’d like to wish you a wonderful conference, where you give as much as you take, and hope that you enjoy being part of an incredible network of passionate and talented educators. On behalf of the IZE Board, I’d like to thank our IZE members, the Temaikèn Foundation and our conference sponsors for making this years 2016 conference not only possible, but fun and meaningful! With sincere appreciation,

Rachel Lowry President IZE

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DAMIÁN PELLANDINI Fundación Temaikèn

I want to warmly welcome you to the 23rd International Zoo Educators’ (IZE) Biennial Conference from Temaikèn Foundation, which in native tongue means “Land of Life”. From this place our wish is to meet and celebrate together learnings and experiences in the construction of bridges between our organizations and the community; among us, the human family, and the living being community. We are sharing a historic moment when leaders from all around the world are announcing the need of protecting the Earth, our common house, regarding equity, education, science and technology; so as it is stated in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and WAZA’s new strategy. We are in a path towards a new empathy and respect paradigm for all living creatures, a path of understanding among cultures and beliefs; where we as educators have to face the challenge of providing moving experiences that would inspire community commitment in life conservation. Education must be shared with others in order to build feasible and inclusive futures. Education is love in action; the substance needed so that we together can protect biodiversity. Building meaningful stories in our zoos is a powerful, comprehensive and challenging strategy to connect with Nature and promote transformational experiences. Thank you very much for choosing us. I wish you the most rewarding and satisfying experience!

Damián Pellandini CEO of Temaikèn Foundation

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About us

IZE International Zoo Educators Association

With over 300 members spanning the globe, and new members joining every year, the International Zoo Educators Association (IZE) has come a long way since its inception in 1972. What started as a small group of European educators has now, in a little over thirty years, united educators with a passion for conservation education worldwide. IZE is dedicated to expanding the educational impact of zoos and aquariums worldwide, and our members are guided by a common mission: to improve the education programs in the facilities of its members, to provide access to the latest thinking, techniques, and information in conservation education and to support excellence in animal care and welfare. The association promotes conferences on zoo education and issues a publication as a way of disseminating education practices and information worldwide.

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The IZE conferences are where professional zoo educators can meet every second year to share ideas and discuss topics of common interest. They are held in turn in six zones. In this way, members from all over the world can participate in an international meeting at least every sixth year without traveling halfway around the globe. Since 2000, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has delegated the responsibility to IZE to realize the education goals formulated in the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Strategy. In 2010, the Association separated from the WAZA office in order to better serve the IZE members. The Association now manages its own membership and continues to makes the IZE Journal and IZE Grants Program a priority of funding.

CRAFTING EFFECTIVE NARRATIVES Once upon a timeâ&#x20AC;Ś Since ancient times, stories have been the main strategy to transmit knowledge from generation to generation. Adults and children love to listen as much as to tell them. The stories change the way we perceive the past, present and future, for ourselves and others. Today, they are still a great tool for enriching experiences, spread the desire to continue learning and inspire to build a better world. The theme of the Conference aims to help strengthen educational interventions that promote attitudes, behaviors and knowledge committed to the care and conversation of the environment. Interventions involving stories that move us, question us and make us fall in love.

Topics These topics invite us to adjust our scope at the junction between the theme of the conference and our specific field: education in zoos, aquariums and parks. We invite you to select one of them and frame the proposal to share (research, experience, case, other):

.Education for the Environment: a complex and necessary approach Understanding the environment as a complex system involves addressing the heterogeneity of its components, but essentially requires working on their relationships. Environmental Education promotes, primarily, relational forms of thinking, which are ways of linking thoughts. To value what is not obvious, what is "in between the lines", which allows us to state that nothing exists in isolation, that nothing and nobody is in itself, but in relation with the context of which it is part. Understanding the environment from this perspective implies profound changes in the way of building knowledge, because it implies overcoming a fragmented discipline to tackle a necessarily interdisciplinary field of study. It implies an ethical evaluation - responsibility and solidarity - to recognize that we are part of the environment, so what we do on it affects the other and also other forms of life.

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.Strategies for environmental educators: How to tell meaningful stories that sizzle Curiosity is the starting point of both teaching and learning. Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator, defends and builds the pedagogy of the question. Those answers that are found split in genuine concerns can hardly be constituted in both meaningful teaching and learning. Curiosity is the starting point of both processes.

.From Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to Technologies for Meaningful Learning The Technologies for Meaningful Learning invite us to rethink the place of technology in concrete and meaningful educational experiences for teachers and students in their mediating potential. They are teaching and learning tools that integrate a holistic worldview of environmental issues, critical reflection of the development models, and playing and arts as means of expression of this complexity.

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.Stories that go beyond the walls of the Zoo: reaching new audiences and empowering social movements Many stories interest and touch us. Others also come to move our most intimate fibers, inspiring us to seek for new changes. Significant stories write paragraphs that tell us who we are, the ties that bind us, shared interests, our aspirations, goals and dreams. They wove and communicate the lives of individuals and groups, multiplying its transformative effect and summoning part.

.Successful educational programs: influencing attitudes, knowledge and behaviors This theme aims to share those educational programs that are implemented as narrative tools that promote attitudes, knowledge and behaviors. Through the power of these narrative constructions, these educational programs help us find new questions that challenge the creativity, critical thinking and commitment in the generation of new proposals for the care and protection of nature.

.Crafting narratives to unforgettable experiences: the value of the experiential learning environment (enclosures, signs, etc.) Experiences are essential to inspire and promote actions to care for nature. The involvement of all our senses generates emotions that allow our acquired knowledge to anchor in a profound way. In zoos, aquariums and parks, learning environments are accessible spaces that offer multiple opportunities to link all people with nature and their emotions.

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Schedule

Tuesday 18 - Novotel Hotel 17:00 Registration 18:00 - 22:30 Welcoming Cocktail - Novotel Hotel

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WEDNESDAY 19 - NOVOTEL 08:30 09:00 09:45 11:00 11:45 Rooms

13:30 15:00 Rooms

16:30 17:00 20:00 - 22:00

Registration Opening ceremony Keynote Speaker: Pedro Tarak Coffee & mate break TAPIR

ORAL PRESENTATIONS - SESSION I HOWLER MONKEY

MANED WOLF

Family narratives and culture: a new framework for understanding family learning. Patricia Patrick, Jenn Idema.

Rural communities in action. Nicolás Emanuel Barreto.

Innovative conservation education: Vietnam´s first carnivore and pangolin Education Centre. Lan Thi Kim Ho.

Biodiversity is us: an analysis based on children´s previous and later knowledge in an activity of non-formal education. Natalia Maruscak.

Youth Sharing Conservation Stories. From NYC to Madagascar. Megan Malaska Medley.

Keeper’s role for crafting narratives to audience through Lion Exhibit of Chiba Zoological Park. Hiroyuki Takahashi.

Conservation Education Training Center. A new tool for zoos in Latin America. Maria Eugenia Martínez Arizmendi.

Conservation´s Hope in Action: fostering Little Green Guards to save endangered species. Chia L. Tan.

Edzootainment: making a ‘Song and Dance’ about Environmental Education in Zoos. Sarah Spooner.

Investigating the long-term effects of Informal science learning at zoos and aquariums. Sarah Thomas.

Primate Education Network: impact, challenges, and needs in Brazil. Patricia Mie Matsuo.

Tiger Trail: the Story behind the Story. James Marshall, Debra Erickson.

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ORAL PRESENTATIONS - SESSION II HOWLER MONKEY

MANED WOLF

Lunch

Stories to inspire : a program for Conservation Education Methodology Based on the Philosophy for Children. Eve Calvo Vega.

Watershed heroes: moving beyond “one and done” experiences. James Marshall.

Zoo Signage: what are the Narratives? Patricia G. Patrick, Jenn Idema.

Celebrating diversity.How a better understanding of cultural diversity amongst visitors can help us to tell our conservation stories. Judy Mann-Lang.

An excursion into delivering conservation messages through crafting narrative talks. Byron Ssemambo.

From Yooz-Pardekhani to Perfor-Yooz Lesson learned of narrative educational activities of ICS to conserve Critically Endangered Asiatic Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus venaticus. Safura Zavaran-H.

Inspiring people to care for the ocean: results of research on the role of animal presentations. Judy Mann-Lang, Hayley Kim Tennant.

Enthralling children to protect Madagascar's unique wildlife: environmental education in the rainforests of Andasibe. Irène Ramanantenasoa.

What are you looking for? The interaction linkage between chimpanzees, visitors and interpretation facilities. Wenchi Lin.

Model of Reflective Practice - strategy for educators to develop and delivery quality programmes. Cat Hickey.

Animals for our ancestors: reviving culture Tequendama for the conservation of our biodiversity. Sandra Gómez, Paola García.

Sense Trails. Valerie Syrowicz.

Questions Coffee & mate break Free time Welcoming Dinner - Novotel Hotel Restaurant

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THURSDAY 20 - NOVOTEL 08:30 09:45 11:30 12:15 Rooms

Keynote Speaker: Suzana Machado Padua Open space Coffee & mate break ORAL PRESENTATIONS - SESSION III HOWLER MONKEY

TAPIR Empowering communities in Andean bear conservation in northwestern Peru. Samantha Young.

Creating educational resources from multiple viewpoints and knowledge. María de los Ángeles Sardou.

Changing conservation campaigns – from in situ project support to community based action. Myfanwy Griffith.

Creating a feeling of belonging to the territory. Catalina Rodríguez Álvarez, Paola Gómez Ovalle.

A Stroll Down Memory Lane at the Zoo. Julie Hebert.

Community Learning Hubs fight extinction of local wildlife. Genevieve Johnson.

Wildlife and Environmental Conservation awareness to communities living in the remote parts of Northern Kenya. Ephantus Mugo.

Writing about gorillas: dialogue between in and ex situ. Marion Cabrol.

Environmental education program aimed to ecological restoration processes in a community of San Antonio del Tequendama Colombia. Sandra Gómez.

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Lunch WORKSHOPS - SESSION I W1. Using stories to engage our hearts and minds in the process of learning to save wildlife. Lian Wilson.

16:00 16:30 Rooms

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W2. Zoo educators and the nine dimensions of reflective practice. Patricia Patrick.

W3. Using game play to take our audiences inside the system. Charlotte Smith.

Coffee & Mate break TAPIR

ORAL PRESENTATIONS - SESSION IV HOWLER MONKEY

MANED WOLF

Kids experience@Zoo. A new learning scenario. Antonieta Costa.

Creating meaningful learning through collaboration. Sarah Thomas.

Guardians of the Endangered: a school program case study. Jana Whiteford, Cassandra Gibbs.

Investigating the impact of interactive touch tables on visitors at Chester Zoo. Sarah Bazley.

Learning and visitor studies designed to promote scientific culture on biodiversity and climate change in a program for social inclusion at Science Center An. Roberta de Assis Maia.

Research and practice in environmental education: an educator training program to create meaningful experiences at São Paulo Zoo Brazil. Camila Martins.

From animals’ view to approach the world. I-Hsin Wu, Wenchi Lin.

Biodiversity conservation and promotion of Eco tourism at Makanaga Wetland System in Uganda. A successful story of Zoo support to in-situ conservation. David Musingo.

Inclusive Environment: our way to inclusion from environmental recreation and education. Laura López, Eric Sambón, Barbara Reich.

How to save wild African Grey Parrots, using new tool Photo Book with storytelling approach. Tomoaki Nishihara.

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Free time "Mi Buenos Aires Querido" - Optional social events

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FRIDAY 21 - TEMAIKÈN BIOPARK LOCATION 07:10

Shuttle pick up - Novotel Hotel to Temaikèn Biopark

Novotel Hotel