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Niklas Gericke Rebecca Carver Jérémy Castéra Neima Alice Menezes Evangelista Claire Coiffard Marre Charbel N. El-Hani 《Science & Education》2017,26(10):1223-1259
Genetic determinism can be described as the attribution of the formation of traits to genes, where genes are ascribed more causal power than what scientific consensus suggests. Belief in genetic determinism is an educational problem because it contradicts scientific knowledge, and is a societal problem because it has the potential to foster intolerant attitudes such as racism and prejudice against sexual orientation. In this article, we begin by investigating the very nature of belief in genetic determinism. Then, we investigate whether knowledge of genetics and genomics is associated with beliefs in genetic determinism. Finally, we explore the extent to which social factors such as gender, education, and religiosity are associated with genetic determinism. Methodologically, we gathered and analyzed data on beliefs in genetic determinism, knowledge of genetics and genomics, and social variables using the “Public Understanding and Attitudes towards Genetics and Genomics” (PUGGS) instrument. Our analyses of PUGGS responses from a sample of Brazilian university freshmen undergraduates indicated that (1) belief in genetic determinism was best characterized as a construct built up by two dimensions or belief systems: beliefs concerning social traits and beliefs concerning biological traits; (2) levels of belief in genetic determination of social traits were low, which contradicts prior work; (3) associations between knowledge of genetics and genomics and levels of belief in genetic determinism were low; and (4) social factors such as age and religiosity had stronger associations with beliefs in genetic determinism than knowledge. Although our study design precludes causal inferences, our results raise questions about whether enhancing genetic literacy will decrease or prevent beliefs in genetic determinism. 相似文献
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Peñaloza Gonzalo El-Hani Charbel N. Mosquera-Suárez Carlos Javier 《Science & Education》2021,30(4):931-965
Science & Education - Despite the importance of evolution to understand living phenomena, evolution teaching confronts several tensions, especially with respect to teachers’ and... 相似文献
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Science & Education - In this article, we draw upon the Conceptual Profile Theory to discuss the negotiation of meanings related to the energy concept in an 11th grade physics classroom. This... 相似文献
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Vanessa Carvalho dos Santos Leyla Mariane Joaquim Charbel Ni?o El-Hani 《Science & Education》2012,21(4):543-578
A major source of difficulties in promoting students’ understanding of genetics lies in the presentation of gene concepts
and models in an inconsistent and largely ahistorical manner, merely amalgamated in hybrid views, as if they constituted linear
developments, instead of being built for different purposes and employed in specific contexts. In this paper, we report the
results of a study about how textbooks can provide the grounds for the students’ construction of such hybrid views about genes.
These views are a key problem in genetics teaching, because they make it more difficult that students properly understand
this central biological concept and strengthen genetic deterministic ideas, which characterize a widespread discourse about
genes in the public opinion. We analyzed 18 textbooks using categorical content analysis, employing categories derived from
the literature addressing the historical development of gene models and concepts. Our findings indicate that the analyzed
textbooks do convey hybrid views about genes, with no correspondence to scientific models related to this biological concept.
These views reinforce genetic deterministic discourses and may lead students to serious misunderstandings about the nature
of genes and their role in living systems, with consequences to future learning about genetics. 相似文献
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Niklas M. Gericke Mariana Hagberg Vanessa Carvalho dos Santos Leyla Mariane Joaquim Charbel N. El-Hani 《Science & Education》2014,23(2):381-416
The aim of this paper is to investigate in a systematic and comparative way previous results of independent studies on the treatment of genes and gene function in high school textbooks from six different countries. We analyze how the conceptual variation within the scientific domain of Genetics regarding gene function models and gene concepts is transformed via the didactic transposition into school science textbooks. The results indicate that a common textbook discourse on genes and their function exist in textbooks from the different countries. The structure of science as represented by conceptual variation and the use of multiple models was present in all the textbooks. However, the existence of conceptual variation and multiple models is implicit in these textbooks, i.e., the phenomenon of conceptual variation and multiple models are not addressed explicitly, nor its consequences and, thus, it ends up introducing conceptual incoherence about the gene concept and its function within the textbooks. We conclude that within the found textbook-discourse ontological aspects of the academic disciplines of genetics and molecular biology were retained, but without their epistemological underpinnings; these are lost in the didactic transposition. These results are of interest since students might have problems reconstructing the correct scientific understanding from the transformed school science knowledge as depicted within the high school textbooks. Implications for textbook writing as well as teaching are discussed in the paper. 相似文献
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Teachers’ professional development is a key factor in improving science education, but it shows limited impact when only a small number of teachers is reached, or when it focuses on only one aspect of teachers’ development, such as learning science content, and is disconnected from teachers’ practice. In order to increase the impact of our work on teachers’ professional development, we implemented in 2007 ComPratica, an online network intended to establish a virtual community of practice involving biology teachers and biological education researchers. We present here the results of the first 2 years of this project, obtained through an analysis of the number and distribution of actions performed by the participants in the community, the kinds of activities in which they are engaged, and the themes addressed in their messages. From these data, we conclude that ComPratica is effectively functioning as a community of practice and is leading to changes related to both teachers’ and researchers’ professional development, which seem capable of reducing the research–practice gap in science education. 相似文献
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Charbel Niño El-Hani Eduardo Fleury Mortimer 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,2(3):657-702
In this paper, we offer an intermediate position in the multiculturalism/universalism debate, drawing upon Cobern and Loving’s
epistemological pluralism, pragmatist philosophies, Southerland’s defense of instructional multicultural science education,
and the conceptual profile model. An important element in this position is the proposal that understanding is the proper goal
of science education. Our commitment to this proposal is explained in terms of a defense of an ethics of coexistence for dealing
with cultural differences, according to which social argumentative processes—including those in science education—should be
marked by dialogue and confrontation of arguments in the search of possible solutions, and an effort to (co-)live with differences
if a negotiated solution is not reached. To understand the discourses at stake is, in our view, a key requirement for the
coexistence of arguments and discourses, and the science classroom is the privileged space for promoting an understanding
of the scientific discourse in particular. We argue for “inclusion” of students’ culturally grounded ideas in science education,
but in a sense that avoids curricular multicultural science education, and, thus, any attempt to broaden the definition of
“science” so that ideas from other ways of knowing might be simply treated as science contents. Science teachers should always
take in due account the diversity of students’ worldviews, giving them room in argumentative processes in science classrooms,
but should never lose from sight the necessity of stimulating students to understand scientific ideas. This view is grounded
on a distinction between the goals of science education and the nature of science instruction, and demands a discussion about
how learning is to take place in culturally sensitive science education, and about communicative approaches that might be
more productive in science classrooms organized as we propose here. We employ the conceptual profile model to address both
issues. We expect this paper can contribute to the elaboration of an instructional multicultural science education approach
that eliminates the forced choice between the goals of promoting students’ understanding of scientific ideas and of empowering
students through education.
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