Keyword: biology

Arenas for learning and the road to citizenship

In the classroom activity described by Krange and Ludvigsen (Krange, 2007, 2008), Grade 9 students struggle with the problems of repairing and sequencing the insulin gene. As resources... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: citizenship, genes, biology, education

Learning, remembering and meta-cognitive/communication skills

Steven D. Brown

Memory is a key contemporary theme within the social and biomedical sciences. Treatments of memory range from discussions of individual capacities to recollect events accurately, through studies of... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: communication, memory, learning, biology, skills

Biofutures – a selective review of biological discovery prospects and education to 2025

Jon Turney

Thinking about biology and education is tricky because considering the two together involves causes and consequences at many different levels – from molecules to minds. At the moment,... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: genes, biology, brain, genome