Laično dojemanje kraškega podzemlja in površja: primer visokošolskih študentov Cilj tega dela je potrditi nekatere metodološke vidike preučevanja duhovne predstave o jamah v Braziliji. Osnova te raziskave je poizkus, približanje družbene predstave določene skupine visokošolskih študentov o površinskem in podzemeljskem krasu. Izsledki kažejo le majhne medsebojne razlike. Vsekakor pa je najpomembnejši izsledek, da študentje, ki so že kdaj v svojem življenju obiskali kako jamo, imajo do

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... ega okolja »negativen« odnos, še pred vizualno stimulacijo. Naštetih je bilo okoli 640 besed povezanih s kraškim podzemljem in površjem, vključno: strah, tema, sence, lobanja, skrivališče, fantastičen in čudovit, kar pomaga določiti razmerje med kulturnimi in psihološkimi pogledi skupine, namreč splošni pogled na obskurni in skrivnostni vidik te pokrajine ter prevladovanje tega nad naravno lepoto. Obdelani podatki kažejo, da je zelo potrebno razvijanje novih raziskovalnih metod v zvezi z duhovnimi predstavami jam, to je okoljskih vzgojnih programov z ustreznimi koncepti o jamah in da je potrebno razširiti izobraževanje v ekoturizmu tudi na brazilske jame. Ključne besede: duhovna predstava, zaznavanje okolja, simboli, kraško površje, jama, Brazilija. Abstract UDC 159.937.52:551.44 Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos & Edson Gomes Travassos & Lucília Panisset Travassos & Luiz Carlos Panisset Travassos: Non-specialists perception about endokarst and exokarst scenarios: visions from high school students The aim of this work is to recover some methodological aspects of the study about the mind representations of caves in Brazil. The basis of this research consisted of one essay, approaching the social representations of a particular group of high school students on the exokarst and the endokarst. The results showed that the meanings vary only slightly, however, the most interesting result was due to the fact that students, who had already visited caves in some period of their lives, still held "negative" concepts regarding this environment even before visual stimulations. About 640 words associated with the exokarst and the endokarst were mentioned, emphasizing: fear, dark, shadowy, skull, hidden places, fantastic and beauty, which helped identifying relations between the cultural and psychological aspects of the group, mainly general views about the obscure and mysterious aspects of this landscape and its prominence over natural beauties. Analyzed data showed that the development of new research on mind representations of caves is very important, mainly for environmental education programs promoting adequate concepts about caves and extending activities of educational ecotourism in Brazilian caves.