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Wierdsma, Menno; Boersma, Kerst Th.; Knippels, Marie-Christine; van Oers, Bert – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
In many science education practices, students are expected to develop an understanding of scientific knowledge without being allowed a view of the practices and cultures that have developed and use this knowledge. Therefore, students should be allowed to develop scientific concepts in relation to the contexts in which those concepts are used.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Science Education, Science Instruction
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Verhoeff, Roald P.; Waarlo, Arend Jan; Boersma, Kerst Th. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
This article reports on educational design research concerning a learning and teaching strategy for cell biology in upper-secondary education introducing "systems modelling" as a key competence. The strategy consists of four modelling phases in which students subsequently develop models of free-living cells, a general two-dimensional model of…
Descriptors: Cytology, Biology, Teaching Methods, Educational Research