Biology in Context : Learning and teaching for the twenty-first century.

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Preface; Darwin and ERIDOB research strands; 1. Learning biology by means of anthropomorphic conceptions?; 2. Ten- to 13-year-old pupils' conceptions of hearing; 3. Understanding the units of nature: from reification to reflection. A contribution to educational reconstruction in the field of ecology; 4. Rehumantic patients' conceptions of their disease: improvement of patient-physician communication; 5. One year after teaching, how consistent are students in using the scientific theory of biological evolution by natural selection?

6. The reasoning of students aged 11-16 about biological evolution7. Choosing biotechnology: a narrative exploration of significant educational episodes influencing career choices in biotechnology; 8. Biotechnology education: topics of interest to students and teachers; 9. Students with a view: explaining attitudes towards modern biotechnology; 10. Opinion building in a socio-scientific issue: the case of genetically modified plants; 11. Development of decision-making skills and environmental concern through a structured, interactive curriculum.

12. A model for communication about biotechnology13. Argumentation about biotechnology with Western Australian high-school students; 14. Developing argumentation in grade 10 biology lessons in South Africa: implications for teachers' professional development; 15. Exploring options for increasing the equilibrium size of a fish population in a lake: students' discursive activity towards the concept of carrying capacity within a computer-supported learning environment; 16. Transformation of everyday language into scientific language in primary school children's explanations.

17. Confirmation bias revisited18. Towards understanding ecosystem behaviour through systems thinking and modelling; 19. The interplay of context and concepts in primary school children's systems thinking; 20. Genetic diseases in French secondary school biiology textbooks (for students aged 15-18): a study of genetic determinism models; 21. Experienced junior high-school teachers' pedagogical content knowledge in light of a curriculum change in the topic of the cell.

22. What do biology tests look like in German grammar schools? A descriptive study about task formats and teachers' intentions for surveying different cognitive dimensions23. Motivational and cognitive effects of learning in a natural history museum with differently structured tasks; 24. The teaching of life sciences in special schools to blind and visually impaired students and its implications for inclusive education in outcomes-based learning environments; 25. Porguguese primary school teachers' conceptions of and obstacles to sex education in the classroom.

26. Biology and health education: is reproductive biology a real chance for sex education?

This volume presents the empirical findings of 31 original studies in biology education with extended discussions of the implications for classroom practice.

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