ERIC Number: EJ1184492
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
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Recontextualising Biodiversity in School Practice
van Weelie, Daan; Boersma, Kerst
Journal of Biological Education, v52 n3 p262-270 2018
The finding that biodiversity is a concept with different context-specific meanings has implications for its conceptual development when students are required to apply it in a diversity of contexts. An approach that may overcome these implications is that students learn to recontextualise one meaning to another. Since no empirical studies were available when this study started, it was decided to conduct a design study to develop a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising biodiversity. In this paper, the design of such a strategy is presented. Testing of the design in two classes in upper secondary biology education showed that it is largely practisable.
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Biology, Science Education, Context Effect, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Science, Observation, Audio Equipment, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Learning Strategies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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