scholarly journals AN INVESTIGATION ON THE SCOPE OF THE CONCEPT OF BIODIVERSITY IN TURKEY AT HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziya Ince ◽  
Vedat Şahin

<p>One of the definitions of biodiversity, which has many definitions, is the differences between living things or the diversity of life forms in the world. According to another definition, biodiversity is a group of wholes formed by genes, species, ecosystems and ecological events in a region. The importance of biodiversity is gradually increasing nowadays where some living species existing on earth are gradually disappearing. In this context, many disciplines have started to work on this subject. Studies in the fields of biology and science are especially important. On the other hand, although some studies have been done on the subject in the field of geography, studies on the place of biodiversity in geography education are limited. Biodiversity; Turkey has not received the place it deserves due to be reduced to just one unit in the Geography Curriculum. Biodiversity, due to the reduction to only one unit in the Geography Curriculum in Turkey, it has not received its deserved place. Because, when the secondary education geography curriculum is examined, it is seen that only in the first unit of 11th grade includes biodiversity. Likewise, there is only one learning outcome directly related to the subject in the Geography Education Program. Document analysis technique, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in our research. In the research, the place of biodiversity subject in secondary education geography curriculum was examined. Within this framework, journals, articles, books of academic value and reports containing statistical data that are published regarding to the topic were reviewed. In this context, many resources published in domestic and foreign languages on the internet has been scanned. In conclusion, in order for the biodiversity of what our country has, to be understood in terms of the whole society, this existence must be well known and assimilated. It gains importance to increase the efforts to transfer the biological diversity that exists in our day to future generations. Geography education is one of the most important factors in order to increase the level of awareness in this regard. In this context, it is important to allocate more space for this subject in different units in the secondary education geography curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>Birçok tanımı olan biyoçeşitliliğin bir tanımı, canlılar arasındaki farklılıklar veya dünyadaki yaşam formlarının çeşitliliğidir. Bir başka tanıma göre ise biyoçeşitlilik; bir bölgedeki genlerin, türleri, ekosistemlerin ve ekolojik olayların oluşturduğu bütünler topluluğudur. Yeryüzünde var olan bazı canlı türünün yavaş yavaş yok olduğu günümüzde biyoçeşitliliğin önemi giderek artmaktadır. Bu bağlamda birçok disiplin bu konuda çalışmalar yapmaya başlamıştır. Bunlardan özellikle biyoloji ve fen bilimleri alanlarındaki çalışmalar önemlidir. Diğer yandan coğrafya alanında konu üzerine bazı çalışmalar yapılmış olsa da coğrafya eğitimi içinde biyoçeşitliliğin yeri konusunda çalışmalar sınırlıdır. Biyoçeşitlilik; Türkiye’de Coğrafya Öğretim Programında sadece bir üniteye indirgenmesinden dolayı hak ettiği yeri almamıştır. Çünkü ortaöğretim coğrafya müfredatı incelendiğinde sadece 11.sınıfın 1.ünitesinde biyoçeşitliliğin yer aldığı görülmektedir. Aynı şekilde Coğrafya Öğretim Programında konuyla doğrudan ilgili yalnız bir kazanım yer almaktadır. Araştırmamızda nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden doküman analizi tekniği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada biyoçeşitlilik konusunun ortaöğretim coğrafya öğretim programlarındaki yeri incelenmiştir. Bu çerçevede konu üzerine yayınlanmış akademik değeri olan dergi, makale, kitap ve istatistik verileri içeren raporlar gözden geçirilmiştir. Bu kapsamda internet ortamında yer alan yerli ve yabancı dilde yayınlanmış birçok kaynak taranmıştır. Sonuç olarak ülkemizin sahip olduğu biyoçeşitliliğin bütün toplum bakımından anlaşılması için öncelikle bu varlığının iyi bilinmesi ve özümsenmesi gerekir. Bu gerçekleştirildikten sonra, gelecek nesillere günümüzde var olan biyolojik çeşitliliğin aktarılması için çalışmaların attırılması önem kazanır. Bu konuda bilinç düzeyinin arttırılması için en önemli araçlardan biri coğrafya eğitimidir. Bu bağlamda ortaöğretim coğrafya müfredatında bu konuya farklı üniteler içinde yer alacak şekilde daha fazla yer ayrılması önemlidir.</p><p>&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Article visualizations:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0726/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

Author(s):  
Mark V. Lomolino

Throughout history, insights into understanding the diversity of life forms have come from placing natural phenomena within an explicit geographic context. “Biological diversity and the geography of nature” maps the discoveries of early explorers in the field, from the Age of Enlightenment to the present day. Where do distinct species occur? How and why do they vary from place to place? Buffon’s Law identified three fundamental processes of biological diversity: evolution, dispersal (or immigration), and extinction. Biological processes are complex—not only because they arise from a variety of factors and processes including evolution, but because the species themselves interact to influence each of the fundamental processes.


1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence A. Mound

There are two extremes in taxonomic behavior - publishing quickly as new taxa become available, and waiting a lifetime in the hope of publishing results that cannot be faulted. Neither of these extremes meets the needs of contemporary biologists in furthering our understanding of the evolution and maintenance of biological diversity. Part of the reason for these extremes is our failure to define suitable objectives for taxonomy. Instead of emphasising the units of biological diversity, we should concentrate on investigating patterns, structural, biological, ecological, temporal, and geographical, because it is these patterns that will generate novel ideas about the evolutionary history of organisms, and that will be most likely to be of interest to the future of our own species. To investigate these patterns, we need to give greater thought to ensuring that our methods of data acquisition are consistent with our methods of data analysis. Even if we take seriously as our objective the description of all living species, then we should be devising methods of sampling natural diversity that are statistically acceptable, not haphazard. However, the following comments, credited to Willis Jepson (1867-1946) in the latest edition of the Jepson Manual of Higher Plants of California, seem appropriate to our problems as insect taxonomists: "The botanist's objective is a furtherance of knowledge of living plants. He wishes to discover new facts and establish new principles. If wise, he will never try to produce a work which is perfect, complete and final. Any such work would be a paradox and at cross purposes with our knowledge of living things and our ideas of endless evolution associated with them. Completion, perfection, finality, represent an anomaly, a contradiction in the field of biology. The far seeing botanist will strive to do work which is inspiring, productive of thought and promoting the soundest progress, so that botanical science will ever advance into new and more fruitful fields".


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Mochammad Ricky Rifai ◽  
Rivo Alfarizi Kurniawan ◽  
Rafiatul Hasanah

 Selama ini mata kuliah yang bersifat eksak bagi sebagian besar mahasiswa dirasa sulit, khususnya pada materi klasifikasi makhluk hidup dikarenakan lebih banyak menghafal tentang spesies makhluk hidup. Diluar itu referensi yang tersedia untuk materi klasifikasi makhluk hidup juga terbatas dan juga membutuhkan waktu yang lama serta tenaga yang banyak untuk mengidentifikasi spesies makhluk hidup. Materi klasifikasi makhluk hidup tidak hanya bersifat menghafal tetapi juga membutuhkan tindakan berupa observasi langsung ke lapangan, sehingga dibutuhkan referensi yang cukup banyak. Seiring berkembangnya zaman, teknologi berhasil menciptakan aplikasi PlantNet yang sangat bermanfaat khususnya di kalangan mahasiswa untuk mengatasi permasalahan tersebut. Aplikasi PlantNet merupakan salah satu aplikasi berbasis android yang dapat digunakan untuk proses identifikasi pada makhluk hidup. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk memaparkan persepsi mahasiswa terhadap aplikasi PlantNet pada mata kuliah klasifikasi makhluk hidup. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode kuantitatif  berupa kuisioner angket dengan teknik pengolahan data berupa analisis deskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil dari angket tersebut menunjukkan adanya respon yang baik terhadap aplikasi plantet bagi sebagian besar mahasiswa aplikasi PlanNet dapat membatu untuk mengetahui klasifikasi tumbuhan, sehingga mahasiswa tidak merasa kesulitan untuk mencari klasifikasi dari suatu tumbuhan. Kata Kunci: PlantNet, klasifikasi, identifikasi So far, the exact subject for most students is difficult, especially in the classification of living things because they memorize more about living species. Beyond that the available references for classification of living things are also limited and also require a long time and a lot of energy to identify species of living things. Material classification of living things is not only memorizing but also requires action in the form of direct observation to the field, so that quite a lot of references are needed. As time has progressed, technology has succeeded in creating the PlantNet application which is very useful especially for students to overcome these problems. The PlantNet application is an android-based application that can be used for the identification of living things. The purpose of this study is to describe the students' perceptions of the PlantNet application in the subject of living organisms classification. The method used in this study is a quantitative method in the form of a questionnaire with data processing techniques in the form of quantitative descriptive analysis. The results of the questionnaire indicate that there is a good response to the PlantNet application for most students of the PlanNet application can be petrified to know the classification of plants, so students do not find it difficult to find a classification of a plant.


Author(s):  
Emi Br Bukit ◽  
Berlin Sibarani ◽  
Rika Rika

This study aims at describing how the teachers teach reading comprehension of narrative text to the tenth grade students in Sibolangit and revealing the underlying reasons of why do they do that way. This study was conducted by using qualitative research design. The subject of this study were two english teachers who taught at tenth grade students of two SMA in Sibolangit they are : SMA Negeri  1 Sibolangit  and SMA RK Deli Murni Bandar Baru in academic year 2016/ 2017. The data were analyzed by using Miles and Huberman data analysis technique. The  technique of collecting the data was recorded from the classroom process in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text. The findings of the study show that most of teachers’ ways are not yet focusing on teaching reading comprehension but rather focusing teaching the knowledge of genre. The underlying reason of the teachers’ ways in teaching reading comprehension did not facilitate reading comprehension. It was due to the misperception of the concept of teaching reading comprehension.  Keywords : Teaching,Reading Comprehension,Narrative Text.


2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
S. A. Akhmadeeva ◽  
M. J. Gadzhieva

This study was aimed at identifying new effective forms that could facilitate the achievement of a practice-oriented result, i.e. students’ ability to communicate in any speech situation, as well as their readiness for various kinds of oral and written examination tests, including the public defence of projects in the 10th grade and writing December essays in the 11th grade. The article considers rhetorical competitions as a means of developing communicative and linguistic competencies among 10th–11th grade students of a polycultural school. The article provides recommendations on organizing such competitions, criteria for evaluating presentations, examples of oral presentations. A textual analysis of the folklore material of Dagestanian and Russian fairy tales and proverbs allowed the authors to conclude that an inexhaustible set of universal themes that have become the subject of reflection in different nations, can teach students to respect other cultures and extend their knowledge of the world and other people. The experience of a rhetorical competition in high school on the basis of fairy tales and proverbs of different nations is expected to help students form such core competencies as critical thinking, creativity, communication and cooperation (ability to work in a team).


Author(s):  
Sergey Krylenko ◽  
Sergey Krylenko

Preservation of biological diversity is necessary for sustainable development and rational use of coastal resources. In this paper structure of the cliff plant communities of the massif Tuapkhat (the Black Sea coast, Russia) are characterized. Flora of this coastal zone combines features of Mediterranean and middle European Russia types. Herbaceous and shrub life-forms and xeromorphous and petrophilous plant associations dominate at the studied area. The main factor determining the species composition of the examined communities is substrate character.


Author(s):  
Sergey Krylenko ◽  
Sergey Krylenko

Preservation of biological diversity is necessary for sustainable development and rational use of coastal resources. In this paper structure of the cliff plant communities of the massif Tuapkhat (the Black Sea coast, Russia) are characterized. Flora of this coastal zone combines features of Mediterranean and middle European Russia types. Herbaceous and shrub life-forms and xeromorphous and petrophilous plant associations dominate at the studied area. The main factor determining the species composition of the examined communities is substrate character.


Conservation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
André Derek Mader ◽  
Brian Alan Johnson ◽  
Yuki Ohashi ◽  
Isabella Fenstermaker

Biodiversity knowledge is communicated by scientists to policymakers at the biodiversity “science-policy interface” (SPI). Although the biodiversity SPI is the subject of a growing body of literature, gaps in our understanding include the efficacy of mechanisms to bridge the interface, the quality of information exchanged between science and policy, and the inclusivity of stakeholders involved. To improve this understanding, we surveyed an important but under-studied group—biodiversity policymakers and scientific advisors representing their respective countries in negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We found that a wide variety of SPI mechanisms were being used. Overall, they were considered to be sufficiently effective, improving over time, and supplied with information of adequate quality. Most respondents, however, agreed that key actors were still missing from the biodiversity SPI.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2899
Author(s):  
Sang Hun Lee ◽  
Yi Hyun Kang ◽  
Rong Dai

Speeches delivered in the Conference of the Parties (COPs) to the Convention on Biological Diversity represent leading discourses about biodiversity conservation. The discourse shared by high-level politicians is especially influential in the financing and decision-making process of global biodiversity governance. However, the speeches given in the COPs have not been the subject of systematic analyses until now. This study analyzes the host countries’ speeches given at the six most recent COPs and investigates which discourses have been expressed in the speeches. The regulatory discourse that views nature as a resource was found to be the dominant discourse, while other discourses that view nature as a scientific object or a spiritual entity were represented only marginally. As the need for a transformational policy for biodiversity conservation is growing amid a global pandemic, it is essential to deepen our understanding of the dynamics and complexity of nature and reflect it in the policy process. This study suggests that more balanced discourse on biodiversity may earn broader audiences’ consensus on biodiversity conservation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Adityo Pratama ◽  
Rizki Yuliandra

Physical fitness is one of the important components in doing any activities. The sport activity is closely related to the achievements that cannot be separated from several factors and one of them is physical fitness. Related to this issue, the physical fitness of basketball club members in Universitas Teknorat Indonesia has not been known yet. Therefore, this study aims to measure the physical fitness level of basketball club members in Universitas Teknorat Indonesia. This study is a qualitative descriptive study by surveying basketball members. The subject of this study is 30 members of basketball club in Universitas Teknorat Indonesia. The data collecting technique used in this study is TKJI instrument consisting of 5 item tests, they are 50-meter run test, pull up, sit up, vertical jump, and run 1,2 KM. Descriptive statistical analysis with percentages is employed in this research as the data analysis technique. The result of this study shows that the physical fitness levels of basketball club members in Universitas Teknorat Indonesia are 26,66% for 8 members, 53,3% of medium classification for 16 members, 20,1% of less classification for 6 members, and none of the members has an excellent and poor classification. Thus, the result of the physical fitness level test for members of basketball club in Universitas Teknorat Indonesia can be categorized at a medium level.Keywords: Physical Fitness, Test, Run, Push Up, Sit Up, Vertical Jump


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