scholarly journals MICROORGANISMS IN PROGRAMMES OF NATURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Albinas Lugauskas
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Active Component ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Plant Yield

Plenty of factors occurring in human environment can influence the activities and health of people, damage the produced goods and inevitably destroy plans of future. Microorganisms that surround people should be treated as an active component of human nature. Majority of them are invisible to men, their activity is not felt and the significance is underestimated until one meets with the consequences caused by microorganism action: plant yield destroyed, carefully fostered animals suddenly die, children or other close people get sick. Here one encounters a vast, hardly familiar and hazardous world of microorganisms, which has been heard of, but has received little attention. Due the immense diversity and versatile possibilities of action microorganisms acquire outstanding power and significance in the permanent processes of mater turnover, draw attention and enable to include this issue into programs of public education. Key words: science education, microorganisms

scholarly journals THE LATVIAN 12TH GRADE STUDENTS` UNDERSTANDING OF PARTICULAR ISSUES OF NATURAL SCIENCES

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Irmeli Palmberg ◽  
Gunita Praulite ◽  
Janis Gedrovics
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Basic Skills ◽  
School Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
12Th Grade

Students after graduating school must have both, knowledge and basic skills for ac-tive life-action, which includes their ability to evaluate their knowledge and skills for usabil-ity both in everyday life and in future. In this article knowledge of different problems within science education and its usability for future life, evaluated by the Latvian 12th grade stu-dents, has been analysed by using a poll, which has been previously approved in Nordic countries. Results show that Latvian students’ knowledge about different problems of human biology is relatively higher than in other fields of science. On the other hand students demonstrate a lack of skills for generalization, therefore knowledge is sometimes insufficient. Only slightly more than half of students recognized their knowledge in science, obtained at school, as suitable for their future life. Key words: basic skills, human biology, knowledge, school science.

scholarly journals Mastery of Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Students of Natural Science Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Murni Soenarno
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Natural Science Education

The Law of The Republic of Indonesia number 14 in 2005 concerning Teacher and Lecturer opened opportunities for a fresh graduate of S1/D4 programs to become a teacher. This opportunity is a big challenge for a fresh graduate of Natural Sciences Education Program in competition against a fresh graduate of pure natural sciences program to be a teacher. This study was a literature study and observation. The purpose of this study was to explain how to prepare undergraduate students of Natural Sciences Education Program facing competition to become teachers. The result of this study showed that the mastery of pedagogical content knowledge becomes important for the students of Natural Sciences Education Program to show their advantages in employment competition.

scholarly journals MOVIES IN NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION: NEW TRENDS

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Vanessa Mendes Carrera ◽  
Agnaldo Arroio
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Natural Science Education ◽  
Education In Brazil

Media have played a relevant role in society because it is through them that values and concepts of our time are incorporated by teenagers and children. It is important to un-derstand these effects as the young generation is exposed to these media and also how it would be possible to take advantage of this influence to school practices. Focused on this issue, the influence of media, in special movies, how the research in science education had been studies this trend. These work it is an art state which focuses on understands how and what kind of research related with this issue in Natural Science Education in Brazil. For this, we used the full papers presented at the ENPEC- Brazilian Conference on Research in Science Education from 1997 (date of the first meeting) to 2009 (the recently). It is expected that this knowledge will allow evaluating and redirecting these educational researches re-lated to this issue based on our results with the theme cinema and education. Key words: education and media, movies, natural science education, trends.

scholarly journals VARIOUS INFORMATION SOURCES FOR NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Sigita Švedienė
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
High Stability ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Natural Science Education ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Science Information

There are several methods of information convenient for natural science education, including press and television. The author checks the information which was published on the TV show and press by Rūta Janutienė, concerning the bread contamination with high stability toxin glyphosate. This herbicide is used to sprey the crop. The article provides information about the worldwide scientific research in order to investigate the effect of toxic glyphosate on humans and the environment. The conclusion is drawn about the negative influence of glyphosate on the reproducability. The author proves that journalist Rūta Janutienė has touched an essential contemporary ecological issue. Key words: natural science information, herbicide, assessment of toxicity, reproducibility.

HUMANITARIAN-ORIENTED TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES AT SCHOOL

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-330
Author(s):  
R.R. Ismagilova ◽  
G.Kh. Akhmetshina
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Language History ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Natural Science Education

The humanitarian potential of school mathematics and natural science disciplines for the education of a person who has a unified representation of the modern picture of the world, its scope and content require more and more study. The humanities-oriented teaching of mathematics and natural sciences at school is implemented in the learning process within the framework of traditional academic disciplines and has the full means for the comprehensive and harmonious development of the student's personality. The use of components of literature, language, history of the native land in the implementation of programs of mathematical, natural science education contributes to the development of interest in learning, the formation of personal values of students. Cognitive interest is created and maintained through the design of problem situations in the classroom, through the development of the ability to solve, develop plot problems that form functional (mathematical and natural science) literacy. The combination of natural science and humanitarian approaches in the representation and assessment of the world in the process of mastering the content of educational disciplines will spiritually enrich every student.

6. Oikos

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Erle C. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Global Force ◽  
Ecological Parameters ◽  
Baseline State

Human reshaping of ecology has been driving the Anthropocene transition since its very first beginnings. ‘Oikos’ explains that the Anthropocene poses even greater challenges for those working to conserve and restore natural habitats. What does ‘natural habitat’ even mean on a planet transformed by humans? The complex dynamics of human–environment interactions make it a challenge to detect whether a significant ecological change has occurred. The ‘historic range of variability’ or ‘baseline’ state of ecological parameters needs to be characterized. If human societies are now operating as a global force that is transforming Earth to the detriment of both humanity and non-human nature, what, if anything, is to be done about it?

The Emergence Of A Climate Anthropology In Northeast Brazil

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Nelson ◽  
Timothy Finan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Human Environment

Climate studies have traditionally fallen within the purview of the natural sciences where cause and predictable pattern are sought for such phenomena as climate change and climate variability. In the past, social scientists had little occasion to cross disciplinary paths with atmospheric or oceanographic scientists. Not that social science has ignored climate, for anthropology and geography claim a rich literature on the impacts of climate variability, particularly drought, on human populations (e.g., Franke and Chasin 1980; Watts 1983; Langworthy and Finan 1997). New theoretical ground, fertilized by an increasing number of empirical studies, now promises to bear the fruit we call climate anthropology. The expanding social science agenda has responded to two relatively recent advances in the natural sciences. The first has been the widening scientific consensus regarding global climate change and its anthropogenic causes. Global change cannot be adequately characterized without understanding the human-environment interactions that have contributed to the phenomenon, forcing social and natural scientists to pursue common research objectives. The second influence on climate anthropology has been the improvement in scientific understanding of oceanic/atmospheric interactions, thus allowing for more refined predictability of climatic events, particularly extreme ones. It is with this advance in climate predictability that climate anthropology is beginning to reap an exceedingly bountiful harvest in both theory and application.

Scientific History and Experimental History

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Roth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Experimental History

The promise of scientific history and scientifically informed history is more modest today than it was in the nineteenth century, when a number of intellectuals hoped to transform history into a scientific mode of inquiry that would unite the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and reveal profound truths about human nature and destiny. But Edmund Russell in Evolutionary History and Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson in Natural Experiments of History demonstrate that historians can write interdisciplinary, comparative analyses using the strategies of nonexperimental natural science to search for deep patterns in human behavior and for correlates to those patterns that can lead to a better, though not infallible, understanding of historical causality.

scholarly journals Anthropomorphism of Nature, Environmental Guilt, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim-Pong Tam
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Theoretical Possibility ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

Feeling guilty about the occurrence of environmental problems is not uncommon; however, not everyone experiences it. Why are there such individual differences? Considering that guilt is a predominantly interpersonal phenomenon, as emotion research has demonstrated, how is it possible that some individuals feel guilty for the degradation of the non-human environment, and some others do not? The present investigation tests an integrated solution to these two questions based on the concept of anthropomorphism. In three studies, with an individual difference approach, it was observed that anthropomorphism of nature predicted the experience of environmental guilt, and this feeling in turn was associated with engagement in pro-environmental behavior. That is, it appears that individuals who view nature in anthropomorphic terms are more likely to feel guilty for environmental degradation, and they take more steps toward environmental action. This observation not only improves existing understanding of environmental guilt, but also adds evidence to the theoretical possibility of describing and understanding the human–nature relationship with reference to psychological knowledge regarding interpersonal relationships.

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