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T1 A three-pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil
A1 Corrochano, Diego
A1 Zuazagoitia, Daniel
A1 Eugenio Gozalbo, Marcia
A1 Monferrer, Lidón
A1 Ortega Cubero, Inés
A1 Ruiz González, Aritz
A1 Aragón, Lourdes
K1 Soil education; soil literacy; mental models; expressed models; early teacher training
AB Pre-service teachers’ mental models of the nature of soil were investigatedin a sample of 181 students from four different Spanish universities, usingthree different methodological approaches: a phenomenographic analysisof definitions, a categorisation of labelled-drawings and the analysis ofanswers to a questionnaire consisting of both open- and closed-endedquestions. Based on the phenomenographic analysis, four explanatorycategories were defined: paedological (soil as a highly complex system);anthropocentric (soil from a utilitarian point of view); structural (soil asa layer of Earth) and naive view (soil as a surface of unknown compositionand function). The most represented category in the studied sample wasthe structural one. Based on the questionnaire and the drawing analysis,students have some notions about soil composition, but their understatingof its origin and degradation processes is scarce. No significant correlationwas found between the analyses conducted using the threedifferent instruments, thus indicating the need to use differentapproaches to better understand students’ conceptions and their ‘intermediate’epistemic models of soil. Finally, some implications for soileducation are discussed.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74619
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74619
LA eng
NO Diego Corrochano, Daniel Zuazagoitia, Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo, Lidón Monferrer, Inés Ortega-Cubero, Aritz Ruiz-González & Lourdes Aragón (14 Dec 2023): A three- pronged method to analyse pre-service teachers’ understanding and epistemic reasoning about soil, Journal of Biological Education, DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2023.2282430
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-abr-2025