Analyses of attempts to prevent the worsening environmental problems on Earth often identify two key lines critique about contemporary school curriculum: first, its role in entrenching anthropocentrism as dominant paradigm for people-environment relations, and then, also compounding this, their combined furthering a loss connection with nature. However, those who advance such critiques do not always acknowledge that teachers perceive enact curriculum variety ways, including resisting these...

A cross‐sectional study of Portuguese primary school pupils' conceptions on digestion and the digestive tract was carried out before after teaching this topic. Pupils prior four years (5/6 to 9/10 year old) drew what happens a cookie inside their body. In some cases they also wrote short text or were interviewed. To identify level graphic development, produced free‐hand drawing. The main conceptual changes in explaining strongly linked teaching. Children's previous not epistemological...

Our previous studies have shown that Portuguese primary school pupils and teachers three main difficulties in the representation of digestion process: sequence digestive tract, blood absorption, relationship function with other human functions. In this study we analysed topic 63 textbooks (1920–2005). general, textual explanation process (including reference to absorption) is clear, but "confusion" images persistent throughout period studied. To demonstrate influence dictatorship...

Using a questionnaire validated by the project Biohead-Citizen, where 15 questions are dedicated to evolution, we analyse Muslim teachers’ conceptions of evolution in several countries. The first part compares nine francophone countries, with varying degrees or Christian culture: France, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Gabon, shows strong contrast between France eight other second teachers countries comparison is possible, finding no difference, few...

In 30 countries, we analyzed the teachers' conceptions related to evolution and their degree of agreement with a separation between science religion, using questionnaire validated by project research Biohead-Citizen, where 15 questions are dedicated topic Evolution. The sampling was same in all countries. We present here our main results. Teachers' very different depending on country, most creationist being observed less economically developed teachers practicing whatever is this religion....

Ce texte présente un double bilan sur dix ans de recherches en didactique la biologie s.l. (biologie, géologie, environnement, santé...). Dans premier temps, il catégorise ces (à partir principalement des thèses et mémoires DEA réalisés à Lyon 1 partie Grenoble 1). Il les méthodes nouveaux résultats acquis dernières années, regroupant trois types : l’identification conceptions obstacles ; l’analyse situations didactiques processus d’apprentissage transposition (externe interne). second...

The presentation of genetic diseases in French secondary school biology textbooks is analysed to determine the major conceptions taught field human genetics. References diseases, and processes by which they are explained (monogeny, polygeny, chromosomal anomaly environmental influence) studied recent text-books targeted at four different levels for students between ages 15 18. Four publishers' included per level. It found that direct, linear causal determinism interpretative model most often...