Evolution content in school textbooks

data from eight European countries

Andreas Panayides (Avtor), Xana Sá-Pinto (Avtor), Evangelia Mavrikaki (Avtor), Duur K. Aanen (Avtor), Sara Aboim (Avtor), Bento Filipe Barreiras Pinto Cavadas (Avtor), Bruno L. Sousa (Avtor), Gregor Torkar (Avtor), Konstantinos Korfiatis (Avtor), Lino Ometto (Avtor), Penelope Papadopoulou (Avtor), Rianne Pinxten (Avtor), Giulia Realdon (Avtor), Nuno Ribeiro (Avtor), José Luis Coelho da Silva (Avtor), Radka Marta Dvořáková (Avtor), Marcel Eens (Avtor), Eliska Filova (Avtor), Tanja Gnidovec (Avtor), Nausica Kapsala (Avtor), Mathijs Nieuwenhuis (Avtor)

Povzetek

Background Evolution is a unifying theme in biology and its understanding is essential to address sustainability problems. However, many people across the world do not understand evolution. Textbooks are among the most widely used educational resources and the way they depict evolution may greatly impact students’ scientific literacy in evolution. In this paper we investigate which evolution concepts are addressed in European science textbooks, from the 1st to the 9th grade. A content analysis using the "Framework for the Assessment of school Curricula on the presence of Evolutionary concepts", was performed on textbooks from eight European countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. At least two experienced coders per country independently analysed the texts, images and activities, discussed the results and reached a final consensus. Results Our results show that textbooks lack or rarely address concepts considered important for evolution understanding, notably the processes driving evolution and their daily life implications, limiting opportunities for education for sustainability. Conclusions We recommend that science textbooks emphasize evolution and its processes since the first school years. This recommendation is particularly relevant for the analysed textbooks from Cyprus and Belgium, that cover less than 45% of the concepts important to evolution literacy.

Ključne besede

koncepti evolucije;naravoslovni učbeniki;ocenjevanje šolskih učnih načrtov;vsebinska analiza ;

Podatki

Jezik:	Angleški jezik
Leto izida:	2024
Tipologija:	1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
Organizacija:	UL PEF - Pedagoška fakulteta
UDK:	37.091.6:57
COBISS:	201487875
ISSN:	1936-6434
Št. ogledov:	73
Št. prenosov:	11
Ocena:	0 (0 glasov)
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Ostali podatki

Sekundarni jezik:	Slovenski jezik
Sekundarne ključne besede:	Evolucija;Učbeniki;
Vrsta dela (COBISS):	Članek v reviji
Komentar vira:	V članku je za projekt "For the Quality of Slovenian Textbooks" naveden tudi slovenski naslov "Za kakovost slovenskih učbenikov".
Strani:	1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (16 str.)
Letnik:	ǂVol. ǂ17
Zvezek:	ǂart. no. ǂ11
Čas izdaje:	2024
DOI:	10.1186/s12052-024-00203-2
ID:	24543143