Students‘ alternative conceptions of animal classification
Journal Title: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Biologiae Pertinentia. - Year 2012, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Students’ conceptions of animal classification are the subject of several investigations. In previous research the criteria of classification used by the students were generally neglected. In a constructivistic view of learning and teaching these investigations must be judged as fallacious The study presented here shows that students prefer to classify creatures along the criteria of habitat and locomotion. They maintain using these criteria even after learning the categories of biological taxonomy. The results point to the assumption that students have an implicit theory of natural kinship of animals. The „personal taxonomies” of the students investigated are expected to be important means for or hints of learning biological systematic and therefore should be seriously taken into account in biology teaching, especially with regard to biological taxonomy, biodiversity and evolution. In accord with the results of the research, the outline of a teaching unit on the evolutionary approach to the classification of vertebrates is presented.
Authors and Affiliations
Ulrich Kattmann
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP232722
- DOI -
- Views 134
- Downloads 0
Social media in communication and mediation… of socio-scientific problems on the example of AIDS
Educational needs of the C generation, as well as the fast growth of informational resources of the Web, are reflected in social media. Prosumerism has its outcomes – the more consumers of information become its producer...
Polish teachers’ conceptions related to the environment
We analyse conceptions of 322 Polish teachers, related to the environment. These differ mainly in the way some teachers think that animals such as snails, flies or frogs can or cannot feel happiness and, independently, i...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia – clinical course, prognostic parameters, prognostic markers
An increase in the number of patients diagnosed with cancer and death caused by malignant tumors has been observed in the world in recent years. The process of tumor formation is very complex and multistage. The pathogen...
Biological education, ethics and society
Questions about living organisms are never neutral, and there can be no single answer. What is possible to do with biotechnology? Who should decide? Without biological references, individuals are just as illiterate today...
Bien vivre avec sa maladie New book recommendation
New book recommendation