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Morin, Olivier; Simonneaux, Laurence; Simonneaux, Jean; Tytler, Russell – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Scientific expertise and outcomes often give rise to controversy. An educational response that equips students to take part in such discussions is the teaching of socially acute questions (SAQs). With SAQs, the understanding of uncertainty, risk and how knowledge is developed is central. This study explores the way in which students from different…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Thinking Skills, Science and Society, Environmental Education
Castera, Jeremy; Sarapuu, Tago; Clement, Pierre – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Innatism is the belief that most of the human personality can be determined by genes. This ideology is dangerous, especially when it claims to be scientific. The present study investigates conceptions of 1060 students from Estonia and France related to genetic determinism of some human behaviours. Factors taken into account included students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Genetics, Foreign Countries
Vaughan, Ian; Larsen, Stefano; Durance, Isabelle; Ormerod, Steve – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
Field experiments are at the core of ecology, yet rarely find their way into education, probably due to a combination of technical challenges and risks associated with fieldwork. This may compromise student education and perception of the subject, making interesting, readily manageable experiments extremely important. We describe how the daily…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Ecology, Biology, Science Experiments
Vergnoux, A.; Allari, E.; Sassi, M.; Thimonier, J.; Hammond, C.; Clouzot, L. – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
The impact of humans on aquatic systems is covered in French high schools in the "Premiere" level (ages 16 to 17) by students studying economics and social sciences. We designed experiments to teach critical thinking about water pollution and how citizens can act to minimise it. The experimental session, which lasts three consecutive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Water Pollution, Ecology
Simonneaux, Laurence; Chouchane, Habib – Journal of Biological Education, 2011
We tried to determine the reasoning behind the stances taken by a group of 19-21-year-old students on the controversial issue of the feasibility and acceptability of human gene therapy. The students were in training at a biotechnology institute. We organised classroom debates, punctuated by phases of epistemological "disturbances". We…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Criticism, Genetics, Biotechnology
Castera, Jeremy; Bruguiere, Catherine; Clement, Pierre – Journal of Biological Education, 2008
The presentation of genetic diseases in French secondary school biology textbooks is analysed to determine the major conceptions taught in the field of human genetics. References to genetic diseases, and the processes by which they are explained (monogeny, polygeny, chromosomal anomaly and environmental influence) are studied in recent French…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Textbooks, Genetics, Biology
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