Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula – a comparative analysis
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=PgFdkTvzDK" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=PgFdkTvzDK</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2023.2293090" target="_blank" >10.1080/09500693.2023.2293090</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evolution in European and Israeli school curricula – a comparative analysis
Original language description
The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the inclusion of learning goals targeting evolution understanding. We performed a quantitative content analysis using the Framework for the Assessment of school Curricula on the presence of Evolutionary concepts (FACE). For each country/region we analysed what this educational system considered the minimum evolution education a citizen should get. Our results reveal that: (i) the curricula include less than half of the learning goals considered important for scientific literacy in evolution; (ii) the most frequent learning goals address basic knowledge of evolution; (iii) learning goals related with the processes that drive evolution are often not included or rarely mentioned; (iv) evolution is most often not linked to its applications in everyday life. These results highlight the need to rethink evolution education across Europe.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Science Education
ISSN
0950-0693
e-ISSN
1464-5289
Volume of the periodical
46
Issue of the periodical within the volume
15
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
1623-1649
UT code for WoS article
001145279500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85184718839