Butterflies & wild bees: biology teachers’ PCK development through citizen science*

Martin Scheuch, Tanja Panhuber, Silvia Winter, Julia Kelemen-Finan, Manfred Bardy-Durchhalter, Suzanne Kapelari

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Abstract

Citizen science is a rapidly growing emerging field in science and it is
gaining importance in education. Therefore, this study was conducted to
document the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of biology teachers
who participated in a citizen science project involving observation of wild
bees and identification of butterflies. In this paper, knowledge about how
these biological methods can be taught to students is presented. After
two years in the project, four teachers were interviewed and their PCK was
captured in the form of content representations (CoRes) and Pedagogical and
Professional-Experience Repertoires (PaP-eRs). These results can help future
citizen science projects to link their activities to the school curriculum. But
not only success can be reported: although one of the project team’s aims
was to make the Nature of Science accessible to the teachers and students in
the course of the project, the teachers did not take this aspect into account.
This paper discusses the possible reasons and proposes various strategies for
improving citizen science in the context of school biology learning.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)79-88
Seitenumfang10
FachzeitschriftJournal of Biological Education
Jahrgang52
Ausgabenummer1
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2018

ÖFOS 2012

  • 503013 Fachdidaktik Naturwissenschaften
  • 106001 Allgemeine Biologie

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