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T1 Mind maps for eliciting and assessing plant awareness: A preliminary study on pre-service teachers
A1 Eugenio Gozalbo, Marcia
A1 Ortega Cubero, Inés
A1 Suárez López, Rafael
K1 art-based education
K1 botanical illustration
K1 mind maps
K1 organic garden
K1 plant awareness
K1 preservice teachers
AB Promoting plant awareness is considered a main goal of biological education. Plantawareness is particularly relevant in teachers, who oversee the botanical educationof future generations. The literature highlights the need to develop plantknowledge, experience in outdoor education, and enthusiasm for plants in preserviceteachers.• We designed a didactic sequence contextualized at an organic garden, constitutedby both artistic and scientific activities. The artistic perspective consisted of drawingbased on observation (prominently, botanical illustration), with the aim of constructingknowledge on plant morphology, and promoting emotional engagementthrough appreciation of plants' beauty.• Several instruments were used to collect information on initial ideas and the processof learning, outstandingly mind maps, a type of multimodal diagram used torepresent ideas on a topic by means of drawings and text. A qualitative procedurewas developed to analyze them, encompassing three perspectives: informationstructure, artistic performance (e.g., graphic richness), and scientific performance(plant knowledge, per content categories). Obtained data were subsequently analyzedthrough statistical tests.• This preliminary study shows that knowledge of plant morphology was developedthrough botanical illustration, incorporated by pre-service teachers, and used infinal mind maps. Significant improvements were observed in certain dimensions of plant awareness, related to plant knowledge and the aesthetic appreciation oftheir biological characteristics
PB Wiley
SN 2572-2611
YR 2024
FD 2024-11-28
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74613
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74613
LA eng
NO Eugenio-Gozalbo, M., Ortega-Cubero, I., & Suárez-López, R. (2024). Mind maps for eliciting and assessing plant awareness: A preliminary study on pre-service teachers. Plants, People, Planet, 1–12.
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-abr-2025