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Direct linkvan Weelie, Daan; Boersma, Kerst – Journal of Biological Education, 2018
The finding that biodiversity is a concept with different context-specific meanings has implications for its conceptual development when students are required to apply it in a diversity of contexts. An approach that may overcome these implications is that students learn to recontextualise one meaning to another. Since no empirical studies were…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Biology, Science Education, Context Effect
Download full textDreyfus, Amos; Wals, Arjen E. J.; van Weelie, Daan – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 1999
Claims that environmental education in a postmodern world will have to be sensitive to the ill-defined nature of emerging key concepts such as biodiversity and sustainability. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Environmental Education, Modernization, Postmodernism
Peer reviewedvan Weelie, Daan; Wals, Arjen E. J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2002
Explores the crossroads between science education and environmental education and presents a framework for tapping environmental education's potential of biodiversity. Outlines a number of stepping stones for making biodiversity meaningful to learners. From the perspective of environmental education, the ill-defined nature of biodiversity is a…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Concept Formation, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
van Weelie, Daan; Wals, Arjen E. J. – 2000
This paper presents a research project that investigates the values and uses of biodiversity. It was jointly investigated by the Wageningen Agricultural University and the University of Utrecht. The study engages a research-based stepping stone procedure for curriculum developers and educators in the (re)designing of teaching and learning in both…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Biology, Conservation (Environment), Curriculum Development
