Conocimiento y valoración sobre biodiversidad en futuros profesores de biología y geografía.

People's diminished awareness of plants, affected by anthropogenic environmental deterioration, has challenged science education to overcome the obstacles impeding a better understanding of their meaning and value. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the socioeconomic status of high-school students, as indicated by their attendance at private or state schools, on their knowledge of native plants. In total, 321 students aged 15-18 were asked to write down 10 plants native to Córdoba, Argentina, in a freelist questionnaire. Students listed a mean of 6.8 species of a total of 165 different categories of plant names. The majority of the species named were exotic to Córdoba (63%) or Argentina (50.6%, of which 33.8% were adventitious), indicating an 'adventitious-tonative' effect by which all spontaneously reproducing plants were presumed to be native species. However, the 20 most frequently named plants were mainly native, with 'Algarrobo' (Prosopis spp.) and 'Espinillo' (Vachellia caven) being the most mentioned. Students' socioeconomic status had a significant effect on the number of species named, with the students of state schools (where the less well-off sectors of the society attend) mentioning more species and, among these, more native ones than the students from private schools. Furthermore, we defined size, colour and scent as being conspicuous traits of plant flowers that are relevant for human perception, and found that the most frequently named adventitious species, unlike the native ones, were those exhibiting big brightly-coloured flowers which ranged from being inodorous to having medium intensity scents.

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Colecciones Biológicas y virtualidad: un recurso para la enseñanza de la biodiversidad

Darrigran,

Custodio,

Legarralde

et al. 2022

Bio-grafía

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La pérdida de la biodiversidad es un hecho, pero existe la tendencia en sociedades como argentina en desconocer este suceso. La educación es clave para revertir esta situación. Sobre esta base y a través del uso de Colecciones Biológicas en la formación del Profesorado de Ciencias Biológicas pertenecientes a las Universidades Nacionales y a los Institutos Superior de Formación Docentes, se plantea la problemática de la perdida de la biodiversidad en el aula. En este trabajo se presentan y discuten los aportes de las Colecciones Biológicas relacionadas con los conocimientos generados a través de la actividad científica y sus proyecciones en el campo educativo. Estas colecciones constituyen un recurso didáctico óptimo para fortalecer y aumentar la calidad de los procesos educativos, ya sea como instrumento para las clases presenciales como virtuales. Asimismo, se destaca que las Colecciones Biológicas por sí mismas no son material educativo, sin un docente que las utilice como tal y las introduzca en el circuito pedagógico. Por último, se destacan las Colecciones Biológicas virtuales como recursos didácticos útiles de implementar, ya que permiten romper barreras físicas, temporales y universales a través de la vinculación de material digitalizado y de internet.

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Conocimiento y valoración sobre biodiversidad en futuros profesores de biología y geografía.

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Colecciones Biológicas y virtualidad: un recurso para la enseñanza de la biodiversidad

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