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Johan Nelson; Clas Olander – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study investigated meaning-making of arrows in a representation of the greenhouse effect among 14-year-old secondary school students. Data was generated during Biology lessons where 74 students discussed how they interpreted a representation from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, which is an NGO that produce school material. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Biology, Science Instruction
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Anna Otterborn; Bodil Sundberg; Konrad Schönborn – Research in Science Education, 2024
Swedish preschool science practice is confined to a unique educational setting where upbringing, care, and education are intertwined. This allows teachers to develop innovative cross-curricular and multidimensional science teaching. At the same time, society demands the digitalization of preschool practice, which has caused concern not only about…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Science Education, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Günter, Katerina P.; Gullberg, Annica; Ahnesjö, Ingrid – Science Education, 2021
Studying biology entails negotiating knowledges, identities, and what paths, more or less well-trodden, to follow. Knowledges, identities, and paths within the very practices of science are fundamentally gendered and it is, therefore, critical to recognize when exploring students' learning and participation in natural sciences. Even though…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Biology
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Pettersson, Alma Jahic; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Tibell, Lena A. E. – Designs for Learning, 2022
Previous research suggests that everyday expressions are commonly used in students' descriptions of nutrient uptake. This study investigate a classroom context in year 5 with a focus on signs of scientific meaning-making about nutrient uptake with an animation as a resource in two different schools. In one of the schools there was also a teacher…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lundqvist, Eva; Sund, Per – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
There is an ongoing discussion about what content that should be taught in science education and there are different views among teachers about what represent good science content. However, teachers are not isolated individuals making their own interpretations, but are part of institutionalised systems building on patterns in the selection of…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Science Education
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P. Granklint Enochson – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study aims to determine what pre-service teachers know about the path of water through the body, and how they intend to explain this knowledge to five-year-old preschool children. This study aims to see the opportunities young children in preschool can obtain from an explanation of the nature of science related to an everyday life activity. A…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Physiology, Preschool Education
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Anna-Clara Rönner; Anna Jakobsson; Niklas Gericke – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense impact on communities around the world. We know that new epidemic-prone diseases will emerge in the future. Consequently, it is important to investigate what impact the current pandemic had on school children's understanding of infectious diseases in order to develop biology education based on that novel…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Middle School Students
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Günter, K. P.; Bussière, L. F.; Gromes, R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Higher education biology (HEB), a discipline where women undergraduates are numerically overrepresented in most Western universities, has been given little attention in exploring norms of scientific practice from a student perspective. This study brings into focus how biology students negotiate identities in relation to figured worlds of HEB.…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Foreign Countries, Biology
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Sundberg, Bodil; Andersson, Magdalena – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Learning about evolution can be challenging for students, as a full understanding may require them to see the world in new ways, to master a disciplinary language and to understand complex processes. Drawing on a long line of theoretically grounded arguments of philosophers and researchers for including wonder in science teaching, we report on the…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Student Interests, Scientific Concepts
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Berglund, Helena – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
Collaboration has the potential to strengthen both professional learning and well-being for teachers. However, it can also bring problematic aspects, such as increased workload and conflicts. The purpose of this study was to explore biology teachers' experiences of collaboration to better understand how upper secondary school organisations can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Biology, Teacher Collaboration
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Mellander, Erik; Svärdh, Joakim – Review of Education, 2018
We evaluate the effects of participation in the Swedish version of the Science and Technology for Children Program on content and process skills in sciences, in grade 9. The Swedish version, called Natural Sciences and Technology for All (NTA), is predominantly employed in grades 1-6. Our outcome measures are scores and grades on nationwide…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Science Education
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Kellner, Eva; Attorps, Iiris – Teacher Development, 2020
This article presents the evaluation of a two-year action research project in biology and mathematics teaching involving a primary school and a university in Sweden. The aim of the study was to contribute knowledge about a school-university intersection as a professional learning arena. The teachers' conceptions about the project implementation,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Program Evaluation, Action Research, Biology
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Biström, Elin; Lundström, Ragnar – Comparative Education Review, 2021
Gender equality constitutes a central aspect of sustainable development. Education is commonly viewed as crucial for achieving both sustainable development and gender equality, and many argue that fostering action competence is a key element in such educational efforts. This article directs attention to the ways in which textbook content about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Sustainable Development, Textbook Content
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Danielsson, Anna T.; Andersson, Kristina; Gullberg, Annica; Hussénius, Anita; Scantlebury, Kathryn – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2016
In this article we explore the places pre- and primary school (K-6) student teachers associate with their science learning experiences and how they view the relationship between these places and science. In doing so, we use "place" as an analytical entry point to deepen the understanding of pre- and primary school student teachers'…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Science Education, Student Teachers
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Jahic Pettersson, Alma; Danielsson, Kristina; Rundgren, Carl-Johan – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Previous research suggests that students use metaphors when asked to explain digestive processes and nutritional uptake. In this paper, we describe the results of a study designed to gain a deeper understanding of how metaphors and anthropomorphisms are used by students when describing such processes. We applied analyses based on the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Nutrition, Foreign Countries, Biology
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