Open AccessCreencias populares y enseñanza de la Biología
Author(s) -
M. A. Fontes Costa,
Maria da Conceição Duarte
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
enseñanza de las ciencias/enseñanza de las ciencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2174-6486
pISSN - 0212-4521
DOI - 10.5565/rev/ensciencias.4656
Subject(s) - popular science , psychology , humanities , philosophy , mathematics education , science education
The existence of some popular beliefs has been referred to by several studies. A few of these popular beliefs, which seem to be also widespread in Portugal, are related to biological contents. Therefore, it can be expected that many students hold some of these beliefs when they come to the biology classes. Based on this suspicion, the authors decided to investigate:— The degree of adhesion shown by students with different biology backgrounds, to some popular beliefs.— The importance given by some biology textbooks to the popular beliefs.