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Direct linkEvangelia Mavrikaki; Giulia Realdon; Tuomas Aivelo; Ani Bajrami; Çiçek Dilek Bakanay; Anna Beniermann; Jelena Blagojevic; Egle Butkeviciene; Bento Cavadas; Costantina Cossu; Dragana Cvetkovic; Szymon M. Drobniak; Zelal Özgür Durmus; Radka Marta Dvoráková; Marcel Eens; Esra Eret; Seckin Eroglu; Malgorzata Anna Gazda; Martha Georgiou; Neil J. Gostling; Tanja Gregorcic; Vanda Janštová; Tania Jenkins; Anttoni Kervinen; Konstantinos Korfiatis; Paul Kuschmierz; Ádám Z. Lendvai; Joelyn de Lima; Fundime Miri; Teresa Nogueira; Andreas Panayides; Sylvia Paolucci; Penelope Papadopoulou; Patrícia Pessoa; Rianne Pinxten; Joana Rios Rocha; Andrea Fernández Sánchez; Merav Siani; Elvisa Sokoli; Bruno Sousa; Panagiotis K. Stasinakis; Gregor Torkar; Asta Valackiene; Máté Varga; Lucía Vázquez Ben; Anat Yarden; Xana Sá-Pinto – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Evolution
Susan Hanisch; Dustin Eirdosh – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Many evolutionary anthropologists view cooperation as core to the evolutionary success of our species. Concurrently, many sustainability scientists view cooperation as core to the future sustainable development of our species. When it comes to biology education, however, it is unclear how or if students are being engaged in these scientific…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Evolution, Biology, High Schools
Download full textPark, Hyoung-Yong; Seo, Hae-Ae – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
Evolution is a central concept that unifies all areas of life sciences. Despite longstanding scientific efforts in science education, the public's scientific awareness of evolution still needs to improve. Furthermore, teaching evolution is subject to recurring controversy. This study aimed to investigate the gap between public understanding of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Computer Mediated Communication, Classification
Kazama, Tomoko; Ogawa, Masakata – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2015
Life exhibitions in Japanese science museums (SMs) face difficulties in coping with rapid progress in the life sciences owing to certain constraints around the frequency of exhibit renovations, and the Japanese indigenous understanding of the natural world (Shizen) that Japanese visitors unconsciously bring with them. To what extent do current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Biological Sciences, Exhibits
Sanders, Martie; Makotsa, Dennis – Education as Change, 2016
Curriculum statements and textbooks are considered to be vital support tools for teachers, particularly during times of curriculum innovation. A recent change in South Africa was the controversial inclusion of evolution in the school curriculum, raising serious concerns amongst biology teachers regarding the adequacy of their content and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Evolution, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Tshuma, Tholani; Sanders, Martie – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
While school textbooks are assumed to be written for and used by students, it is widely acknowledged that they also serve a vital support function for teachers, particularly in times of curriculum change. A basic assumption is that biology textbooks are scientifically accurate. Furthermore, because of the negative impact of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Evolution, Textbook Content, Biology
Peleg, R.; Baram-Tsabari, A. – Research in Science Education, 2016
Science museums often introduce plays to liven up exhibits, attract visitors to specific exhibitions, and help visitors to "digest" difficult content. Most previous research has concentrated on viewers' learning outcomes. This study uses performance and spectator analyses from the field of theater studies to explore the link between…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Museums, Science Education, Drama
Bohlin, Gustav; Höst, Gunnar E. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2015
The present study explores the extent and precision of evolutionary explanations for antibiotic resistance in communication directed toward the Swedish public. Bacterial resistance develops through evolutionary mechanisms and knowledge of these helps to explain causes underlying the growing prevalence of resistant strains, as well as important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Drug Therapy, Communicable Diseases
Taskin, Özgür – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
The present research aims to determine whether or not pre-service science teachers in Turkey are resistant to learning about the theory of evolution (TOE), and to understand the reasons for their acceptance or rejection of this theory. Following an intervention process, essay documents were collected from each participant ("N" = 113) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Basel, Nicolai; Harms, Ute; Prechtl, Helmut – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
A qualitative exploratory study was conducted to reveal students' argumentation skills in the context of the topic of evolution. Transcripts from problem-centred interviews on secondary students' beliefs about evolutionary processes of adaptation were analysed using a content analysis approach. For this purpose two categorical systems were…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Evolution, Transcripts (Written Records), Content Analysis
Basel, Nicolai; Harms, Ute; Prechtl, Helmut; Weiß, Thomas; Rothgangel, Martin – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
Treating creationism as a controversial topic within the science and religion issue in the science classroom has been widely discussed in the recent literature. Some researchers have proposed that this topic is best addressed by focusing on sociocognitive conflict. To prepare new learning opportunities for this approach, it is necessary to know…
Descriptors: Creationism, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Science Education, Religion Studies
Quessada, Marie-Pierre; Clement, Pierre; Oerke, Britta; Valente, Adriana – Science Education International, 2008
What kinds of images of human beings illustrate human evolution in school textbooks? A comparison between the textbooks of eighteen different countries (twelve European countries and six non-European countries) was attempted. In six countries (Algeria, Malta, Morocco, Mozambique, Portugal, and Tunisia), we did not find any chapter on the topic of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Textbook Content
Rees, Paul A. – Journal of Biological Education, 2007
Textbooks for GCE Advanced Level Biology have provided over-simplified and inaccurate accounts of Charles Darwin's contribution to the study of evolution over a period of many decades. They have credited him with field skills and insight that he did not possess, and repeated several historical inaccuracies. Darwin's strength was as a synthesiser…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Biology, Misconceptions
Forissier, Thomas; Clement, Pierre – Journal of Biological Education, 2003
"Biological identity" is the result of interactions between the environment and the genome. These interactions, however, were not taught before 2001. In the French syllabus for 16-year-old students, two of the five sections on genetics deal with biological identity. We analysed the texts and images of the chapters relating to these two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Genetics, Environmental Influences
