Description
This book is a collection of full papers based on the peer-reviewed submissions accepted for the ERIDOB 2020 conference (which was cancelled due to COVID-19). ERIDOB brings together researchers in Biology Education from around the world to share and discuss their research work and results. It is the only major international conference on biology education research, and all the papers therefore are written by international researchers from across Europe (and beyond), which present the findings from a range of contemporary biology education research projects. They are all entirely new papers describing new research in the field. The papers are peer-reviewed by experienced international researchers selected by the ERIDOB Academic Committee. The papers reflect the ERIDOB conference strands by covering topics on: Socioscientific issues, Nature of Science and scientific thinking Teaching and learning in biology Perceptions of biology and biology education Textbook analysis Outdoor and environmental education By providing a collection of new research findings from many countries, this book is a great resource for researchers and practitioners such as school, college and university biology teachers’ around the world. It is useful for training biology teachers and therefore valuable to teacher training institutions. Konstantinos Korfiatis is Associate Professor of Environmental Education at the Department of Education, University of Cyprus. He is, since 2016, a member of the Academic Committee of ERIDOB (European Researchers in Didactics of Biology). His research interests expand to the areas of environmental education, ecology and sustainability education. Marcus Grace is Professor of Science Education and former Head of the Education School at the University of Southampton, UK. His main interests include learning and teaching about socio-scientific issues, particularly biodiversity conservation and outdoor science education. He is Chair of the Academic Committee of ERIDOB (European Researchers in Didactics of Biology), and has researched and published widely on education for socio-scientific issues with colleagues around the world.
