Knowledge and values in science textbooks concerning complexity in ecological systems and environmental problems: a cross-cultural study on secondary school manuals (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Knowledge and values in science textbooks concerning complexity in ecological systems and environmental problems: a cross-cultural study on secondary school manuals (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Agorram B.; Caravita, S.; Valente, A.; Luzi, D.; Margnelli, N. (2009)
    Knowledge and values in science textbooks concerning complexity in ecological systems and environmental problems: a cross-cultural study on secondary school manuals
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  • Agorram B.; Caravita, S.; Valente, A.; Luzi, D.; Margnelli, N. (literal)
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  • 25 (literal)
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  • 37 (literal)
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  • 6 (literal)
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  • In: US-China education review, vol. 6 (2) pp. 25 - 37. David Publishing Co, 2009. (literal)
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  • Ecole Normale SupĂ©rieure, Marrakech, Morocco Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR Istituto di Ricerche sulle Popolazioni e Politiche Sociali del CNR (literal)
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  • Knowledge and values in science textbooks concerning complexity in ecological systems and environmental problems: a cross-cultural study on secondary school manuals (literal)
Abstract
  • The study was carried out within the European research project \"Biology, Health and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship\" that joined 18 European and North-African countries. We report here the methodology and some of the conclusions drawn from an analysis of science textbooks that considered the topics ecology and environmental education (EEE). Grids were conceived with the aim of revealing value systems conveyed by the exposition of the content and by images. We concentrate on the explicit/implicit presence of two of the four conceptions that have been investigated: complex vs. linear and relation of humans respect to nature in relation to the sub-topics ecosystems and ecological cycles and pollution. Dogmatism, scientism, and non-historical approach were also checked. The findings from the analysis of the sample of seven Italian textbooks for lower and higher secondary school are illustrated and compared with those obtained in Morocco. The outcomes of the analyses show that ecology is not oversimplified, and structural descriptions appear more articulate than the relational and the dynamical ones. The view of ecology communicated by most of the textbooks is rather superficial and incomplete under many respects that we specify. The topic pollution is treated in a fragmentary way, as a \"call of attention\" added to the description of the environmental components or in Cards included in the chapters concerning the human body. The higher secondary school manuals do not contain more and more articulate information nor they more deeply account concrete cases, familiar to students' experience. Regardless of cultural differences and the diversity in the environmental contexts, the examined topics (literal)
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