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标题：Teaching of Botany in higher education: representations and discussions of undergraduate students
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作者：João Rodrigo Santos da Silva ; Fernando Guimarães ; Paulo Takeo Sano 等
期刊名称：Revista Electrónica de Enseñanza de las Ciencias
印刷版ISSN：1579-1513
电子版ISSN：1579-1513
出版年度：2016
卷号：15
期号：3
页码：380-393
出版社：Universidade de Vigo
摘要：The teaching of botany is characterised as being taught in a theoretical and uninteresting way for students. The purpose of this work is to discover what students think of the way Botany is taught and their views on the subject. In order to achieve this goal an open questionnaire was presented to the first year undergraduate students studying Biological Sciences. 221 students from 3 different universities filled in the questionnaire. From the results gathered, students in our sample were in favour of a more practical teaching of Botany, and if they were the professors, they would transfer the class into the field after theoretical lessons. This inversion of positions (from student to teacher) brought a modification in the way they feel Botany should be taught, in spite of the players being the same. This article has pointed out that the representation of a concept can vary depending on the subject’s point of view and that it is important to pay close attention to the training of these future Biology teachers.
关键词：teaching methods; Botany; undergraduate students; teachers training; higher education.