Teaching the Nature of Inquiry: Further Developments in a High School Genetics Curriculum |
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| Authors: | Cartier Jennifer L Stewart Jim |
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| Institution: | (1) NCISLA, Room 575B, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA;(2) Teacher Education Room 226, 225 North Mills Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA |
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| Abstract: | In order for students to truly understand science, we feel that they must be familiar with select subject matter and also understand how that subject matter knowledge was generated and justified through the process of inquiry. Here we describe a high school biology curriculum designed to give students opportunities to learn about genetic inquiry in part by providing them with authentic experiences doing inquiry in the discipline. Since a primary goal of practicing scientists is to construct explanatory models to account for natural phenomena, involving students in the construction of their own explanatory models provides a major emphasis in the classroom. The students work in groups structured like scientific communities to build, revise, and defend explanatory models for inheritance phenomena. The overall instructional goals include helping students understand the iterative nature of scientific inquiry, the tentativeness of specific knowledge claims (and why they should be considered tentative), and the degree to which scientists rely on empirical data as well as broader conceptual and metaphysical commitments to assess models and to direct future inquiries. |
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| Keywords: | biology epistemology inquiry genetics inquiry models problem solving secondary curriculum |
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