Health Education and Teaching Genetics at Elementary Schools
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This paper shows the results of an anonymous survey carried out amongst 73 elementary teachers in the South Moravian region. The subjects in question taught genetics as part of the natural history curriculum. Our research attempted to find out to what extent the lack of teacher training in the subjects of biology and genetics in the 1960s is apparent today. As well as that, the survey assayed the teachers approach to teaching genetics nowadays and the use of genetics in health education. It was found out that a majority of teachers are motivated and enthusiastic to teach genetics; many of them make their own didactic tools for lessons. However, the handicap in teachers specialized knowledge still remains and professional teaching of genetics is guaranteed only in 40 per cent of the schools monitored. |
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