Fostering students’ systems thinking in secondary biology education

10.33540/808 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melde Gemma Regina Gilissen
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Secondary Biology

scholarly journals Teachers’ and educators’ perspectives on systems thinking and its implementation in Dutch biology education

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melde G.R. Gilissen ◽  
Marie-Christine P.J. Knippels ◽  
Roald P. Verhoeff ◽  
Wouter R. van Joolingen
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Biology Education

scholarly journals Students’ Ability to Solve Process-diagram Problems in Secondary Biology Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Kragten ◽  
Wilfried Admiraal ◽  
Gert Rijlaarsdam
Keyword(s):  
Biology Education ◽  
Secondary Biology

scholarly journals Fostering Students’ Understanding of Complex Biological Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. ar37
Author(s):  
Melde G. R. Gilissen ◽  
Marie-Christine P. J. Knippels ◽  
Wouter R. van Joolingen
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Design Guidelines

The aim of this study was to investigate how students can be supported to visualize and reason about complex biological problems from a systems thinking perspective. Four design guidelines are presented to foster students’ systems thinking in biology education.

The feasibility of systems thinking in biology education

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerst Boersma ◽  
Arend Jan Waarlo ◽  
Kees Klaassen
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Biology Education

scholarly journals The Theoretical Nature of Systems Thinking. Perspectives on Systems Thinking in Biology Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roald P. Verhoeff ◽  
Marie-Christine P. J. Knippels ◽  
Melde G. R. Gilissen ◽  
Kerst T. Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Biology Education

Recontextualising Cellular Respiration in Upper Secondary Biology Education. Characteristics and Practicability of a Learning and Teaching Strategy

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menno Wierdsma ◽  
Marie-Christine Knippels ◽  
Bert van Oers ◽  
Kerst Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Cellular Respiration ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Secondary Biology

scholarly journals Teaching and learning through scientific practices in the laboratory in biology education

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 340
Author(s):  
Mari Sjøberg
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Secondary Biology ◽  
Support Students

The overall aim of this thesis is to explore challenges and opportunities with teaching and learning through scientific practices in the laboratory in biology education. This thesis is based on three articles that are introduced and discussed in an extended abstract. My focus is on practice in the laboratory, and in the thesis, I have investigated practice in two different ways. First, I have investigated upper secondary biology teachers’ practices as reported in a survey and group interview (Article I). Secondly, I have analyzed undergraduate biology students’ practices through microscale analysis of their reasoning when constructing representations in the laboratory (Article II and III). The findings from Article I show that the biology teachers’ primarily report that they implement teacher-directed laboratory work with the aim of illustrating content knowledge. The findings from Article II and III shows how different representations, such as drawings and gestures, support students’ model-based reasoning. Based on these findings, I argue for the fruitfulness of a focus on modelling through representation construction as a scientific practice in the laboratory.  

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