Environmental Issues and Ecological Understanding in Teachers Training

Autor/inn/en	Ibarra, Julia; Quílez, María José Gil; Carrasquer, José
Titel	Environmental Issues and Ecological Understanding in Teachers Training
Quelle	In: Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2 (2009) 2, S.65-72 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2065-1430
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preservice Teachers; Ecology; Environmental Influences; Multimedia Materials; Competence; Persuasive Discourse; Aquatic Sports; Marine Biology; Information Technology; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ökologie; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Kompetenz; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Water sports; Water sport; Wassersport; Meeresbiologie; Informationstechnologie; Spanien
Abstract	There is a clear relationship between the way understand a phenomenon and how we act about it, and this is especially important when working with environmental subjects. Environmental problems are often abstract or imperceptible to students and for this reason difficult to understand. This article is part of a more detailed study on how trainee teachers use ecological knowledge when dealing with particular environmental issues. This paper reports on the results of using a multimedia application, an interactive CD-ROM about fishing, with trainee teachers. The use of the interactive tool on an autonomous way has been reasonably successful for the students, who have reacted positively when allowed to work on their own individually or collectively. The students are able to answer correctly to the simplest aspects of the descriptive and explicative fields within the ecological models. On the other hand, the majority of the students do not fulfil the argumentative and applicative aspects of the knowledge due to the lack of basic elements that allow them to achieve the following competences: identify the model elements, identify and tell rightly the interrelations between them, connect causes and consequences. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01