Genetics Education (eBook)

Current Challenges and Possible Solutions

Michal Haskel-Ittah, Anat Yarden (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2021
X, 177 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-86051-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume presents the current state of the art of genetics education and the challenges it holds for teaching as well as for learning. It addresses topics such as how genetics should be taught in order to provide students with a wide and connected view of the field. It gives in-depth aspects that should be considered for teaching genetics and the effect on the student's understanding. This book provides novel ideas for biology teachers, curriculum developers and researchers on how to confront the presented challenges in a way that may enable them to advance genetics education in the 21st century. It reviews the complexity of teaching and learning genetics, largely overlooked by biology textbooks and classroom instruction. It composes a crucial component of scientific literacy.

Professor Anat Yarden is Head of the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Head of the Biology Group at this Department. She holds an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences (from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), a master's degree and a PhD in molecular biology (from the Weizmann Institute of Science), and has carried out postdoctoral training in Genetics (at Stanford University). The primary theme in all of her academic activities has been adapting practices employed by scientists to the processes by which students and teachers accumulate and advance their knowledge within the discipline of biology.

 

Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah is a senior scientist at the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She holds an undergraduate degree in Life Sciences (from Ben-Gurion University), a master's degree and a PhD in molecular biology (from the Weizmann Institute of Science), and has carried out postdoctoral training in Science Teaching (the Weizmann-Abroad combined program - Rutgers University and the Weizmann Institute of Science). Her research group studies the learning and teaching of biological mechanisms and the development of mechanistic reasoning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions from Biology Education Research
• Reihe/Serie: Contributions from Biology Education Research
• Zusatzinfo: X, 177 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: anti-racist genetics education • biology in-service • Biology Teacher Education • Evolving antibiotics resistant bacteria by proxy • Genes in the Postgenomic Era • Genetics determinism • Genetics education • Genetics understanding • learning about human genetic variation • Learning progressions in genetics • Pre-service biology • Students conceptions of genetics • teaching complexities of genetics • Teaching genetics • The Simulated Classroom Biology (SCRBio) • understanding evolution • Understanding The Complexity of Genetics • understanding the gene-to-trait mechanisms
• ISBN-10: 3-030-86051-5 / 3030860515
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-86051-6 / 9783030860516