Plant Awareness Disparity with Kathryn Parsley and Dr. Elisabeth Schussler

Students in the United States like studying animals more than plants.People tend not to pay attention to the plants in their surroundings.These are only two factors contributing to a condition described as "plant blindness" in the botany and science education literature. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Elisabeth Schussler, one of the two botanists who coined the phrase in 1999. I also speak with Kathryn Parsley, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Memphis, whose specialty is botanical literacy. In a paper written for the journal "Plants People Planet," Kathryn makes a case for replacing the phrase "plant blindness" with Plant Awareness Disparity. Find out why formal and informal educators should consider doing the same. LINKSLinks to Kathryn Parsley's websites and projectsDr. Elisabeth Schussler, University of TennesseeArticle - Plant Awareness Disparity: A Case for Renaming Plant BlindnessArticle - Preventing Plant BlindnessBotanical Society of AmericaAmerican Society of Plant BiologistsPlant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Harris & Harris)Ed Yong, Science JournalistBesley FrameworkEpisode 47: Kathryn Parsley, Plant Blindness    _______________CREDITS:Producer: Tania MarienMusic: So Far So Close by Jahzzar is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike License;SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.Subscribe to Transferable Solutions, a newsletter about reimagining environmental skillsContact UsTalaterra is an affiliate of Bookshop.org. Learn More© 2019 - 2026 Talaterra Inc ABOUT:TALATERRA combines "tala" (Icelandic for "to speak" and "to talk") with "terra" (Earth)—because speaking for our planet and telling its stories is what environmental educators do.TALATERRA: to speak Earth.