During my teacher training we had to write a masters’ level essay on the implementation of the How Science Works component of the English secondary science curriculum. There was a bit of confusion as to what this really was, and many schools seemed to view it as a bolt-on exercise to appear intermittently (if atContinue reading “The philosophy of biology: How it affects curricular design”
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Beyond description: Begin your biology curriculum with autopoiesis
Brett Kingsbury has declared MRS GREN dead. Beginning secondary biology education is a pivotal time for instilling the correct epistemic view of our subject, so what do we replace it with? Here’s my take: https://cmooreanderson.wixsite.com/teachingbiology/post/toward-a-explanatory-biology-y7-and-the-death-of-mrs-gren Christian Moore Anderson @CMooreAnderson (on twitter)