Darwin-Inspired Learning / edited by Carolyn J. Boulter, Michael J. Reiss, Dawn L. Sanders.

• Superior document: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education
• HerausgeberIn: Boulter, Carolyn J.; Reiss, Michael J.; Sanders, Dawn L.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Charles Darwin has been extensively analysed and written about as a scientist, Victorian, father and husband. However, this is the first book to present a carefully thought out pedagogical approach to learning that is centered on Darwin’s life and scientific practice. The ways in which Darwin developed his scientific ideas, and their far reaching effects, continue to challenge and provoke contemporary teachers and learners, inspiring them to consider both how scientists work and how individual humans ‘read nature’. Darwin-inspired learning, as proposed in this international collection of essays, is an enquiry-based pedagogy, that takes the professional practice of Charles Darwin as its source. Without seeking to idealise the man, Darwin-inspired learning places importance on: • active learning • hands-on enquiry • critical thinking • creativity • argumentation • interdisciplinarity. In an increasingly urbanised world, first-hand observations of living plants and animals are becoming rarer. Indeed, some commentators suggest that such encounters are under threat and children are living in a time of ‘nature-deficit’. Darwin-inspired learning, with its focus on close observation and hands-on enquiry, seeks to re-engage children and young people with the living world through critical and creative thinking modeled on Darwin’s life and science.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Carolyn J. Boulter , Michael J. Reiss and Dawn L. Sanders -- Introduction / Michael J. Reiss , Carolyn J. Boulter and Dawn L. Sanders -- Entering Darwin’s Life / Randal Keynes -- The World of Downe / Dawn L. Sanders -- ‘Pester Them with Letters’: Using Darwin’s Correspondence in the Classroom / Sally Stafford -- Learning in Cultivated Gardens and Other Outdoor Landscapes / Paul Davies , Dawn L. Sanders and Ruth Amos -- Learning to Read Nature to Understand the Natural World and How It Works / Ola Magntorn -- Walking with Darwin in Rio de Janeiro / Sandra Escovedo Selles -- Getting the Kids Involved – Darwin’s Paternal Example / James Moore -- Using Collections of Darwiniana in Darwin-Inspired Learning / Ruth Barlow -- Object Lessons in Evidence-Based Learning / Mike Corbishley -- Sailing the Backyard Beagle / James T. Costa -- Naming the Living World / Stephen P. Tomkins and Sue Dale Tunnicliffe -- Scientific Enquiry / Shirley Simon -- Using Darwin to Teach Earth Science / Peter Kennett and Chris King -- Darwin the Scientist / James D. Williams -- Teaching Evolution in Schools / Ralph Levinson -- The ‘Attentive and Reflective Observer’ / Neil Ingram -- Darwinian Case Studies Within a Post-16 Programme for the History and Philosophy of Science / John L. Taylor -- They Really do Eat Insects / Aaron M. Ellison -- DNA Barcoding Darwin’s Meadow / Karen E. James -- Darwin’s Barnacles / Miranda Lowe and Carolyn J. Boulter -- Darwin-Inspired Drama / Martin Braund -- Evolutionary Narratives / Tina Gianquitto -- Darwin in Natural Science School Textbooks in the Nineteenth Century in England and Spain / Margarita Hernández-Laille -- Writing and Representing to Learn in Science / Vaughan Prain -- Routes to Conceptual Change in Teaching and Learning About Evolution / Emma Newall -- Developing a Model for Post-16 Teaching and Learning / Carolyn J. Boulter and Emma Newall -- Transformation of the School Grounds for Darwin-Inspired Learning / Susan Johnson -- Transition / Susan Johnson -- Staging Darwin’s Science through Biographical Narratives / Dawn L. Sanders -- Epilogue / Dawn L. Sanders , Carolyn J. Boulter and Michael J. Reiss -- About the Contributors / Carolyn J. Boulter , Michael J. Reiss and Dawn L. Sanders -- Index / Carolyn J. Boulter , Michael J. Reiss and Dawn L. Sanders.