TEACHING Biodiversity & Evolution Through Travel Course Experiences

From: The American Biology Teacher | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: McLaughlin, Jacqueline S; Zervanos, Stam M | Copyright information

Biodiversity is the extraordinary variety of life on our planet. This complex web of life has been evolving for at least 3.8 million years in the various ecosystems that define the biosphere. In order to be fully appreciated, biodiversity needs to be experienced firsthand, or "experientially" [a term taken from education reformer and philosopher, John Dewey ([1973] 1981) and defined by sociologists Keeton and Tate (1978) as "learning in which the learner is directly in touch with the realitie...

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