Aliens and dragons: purposefully-framed play and non-standard learning methods in teaching evolutionary processes to primary school pupils

IF 0.9 Q3 GEOLOGY
M. Antczak
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Abstract Evolutionary processes lie at the base of the entire observable biodiversity, both at present and in the geological past (i.e., in the fossil record). For this reason, the teaching of evolution should receive more recognition than it currently has (e.g., in Poland) and become accurately applied from the early formal education stages onwards. To test the possibility of effective teaching of evolution to primary school pupils, workshops using non-standard learning methods (‘purposefully-framed play’) were organised during childrens’ university (UNIKIDS) courses of one-hour sessions for 33 groups, comprising several to 20 participants, aged 7 to 12. The final task for all participants was to predict future evolutionary processes by creating new species adapted to given environmental factors. Pupils effectively completed this task, but a few misconceptions also become clear. These workshop scenarios suggest that evolution can be taught effectively at least in extracurricular settings to primary school pupils, but for a detailed insight, a quantitative analysis and application of such scenarios in school programmes should be tested in future.
外星人与龙:小学生进化过程教学中有目的的游戏和非标准的学习方法
摘要进化过程是目前和过去地质时期(即化石记录中)整个可观测生物多样性的基础。因此,进化论的教学应该得到比目前更多的认可(例如在波兰),并从早期正规教育阶段开始准确应用。为了测试向小学生有效教授进化论的可能性,在儿童大学(UNIKIDS)的课程期间,为33个小组组织了使用非标准学习方法(“有目的的框架游戏”)的讲习班,为期一小时,其中包括几至20名参与者,年龄在7至12岁之间。所有参与者的最后一项任务是通过创造适应特定环境因素的新物种来预测未来的进化过程。学生们有效地完成了这项任务,但一些误解也变得清晰起来。这些研讨会场景表明,进化论至少可以在课外环境中有效地教授给小学生,但为了获得详细的见解,未来应该测试这些场景在学校课程中的定量分析和应用。
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Geologos
Geologos GEOLOGY-
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