Evolution content in school textbooks: data from eight European countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11410/24:10485914
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=449Z2sYHXa" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=449Z2sYHXa</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12052-024-00203-2" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12052-024-00203-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Evolution content in school textbooks: data from eight European countries
Original language description
Background: Evolution is a unifying theme in biology and its understanding is essential to address sustainability problems. However, many people across the world do not understand evolution. Textbooks are among the most widely used educational resources and the way they depict evolution may greatly impact students' scientific literacy in evolution. In this paper we investigate which evolution concepts are addressed in European science textbooks, from the 1st to the 9th grade. A content analysis using the 'Framework for the Assessment of school Curricula on the presence of Evolutionary concepts", was performed on textbooks from eight European countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. At least two experienced coders per country independently analysed the texts, images and activities, discussed the results and reached a final consensus. Results: Our results show that textbooks lack or rarely address concepts considered important for evolution understanding, notably the processes driving evolution and their daily life implications, limiting opportunities for education for sustainability. Conclusions: We recommend that science textbooks emphasize evolution and its processes since the first school years. This recommendation is particularly relevant for the analysed textbooks from Cyprus and Belgium, that cover less than 45% of the concepts important to evolution literacy.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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
Others
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
Evolution: Education and Outreach
ISSN
1936-6426
e-ISSN
1936-6434
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
09 July 2024
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
11
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198131765