Abstract

VERGARA-ESTUPINAN, Lady Mayerli  and  CORREDOR-ARISTIZABAL, Javier Alejandro. Effects of a Field Experience on the Love for Biology. Rev. Fac. Cienc. Tecnol. [online]. 2019, n.45, pp.175-190. ISSN 0121-3814.

This study explores the effect of a learning experience on the love and personal preference for biology in a group of 32 fourth-grade children from a school in a Colombian city of approximately 200 thousand people between the ages of 9 and 10. The results are part of a study on the learning of taxonomy and biology in informal learning environments. This educational case report aims to review the effects of visiting the informal learning environment of the herbarium of Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia on the preferences and liking for this knowledge. The learning experience follows the guidelines of the design experiments in which an educational situation was developed and the effects were evaluated qualitatively by using a structured coding. The students' answers before and after the intervention are compared with a semi-structured interview. The intervention showed that contact with the herbarium's environment and with the practices of biology favors the children's liking for the disciplinary knowledge of biology and generates a greater understanding of the biologist's work.

Keywords : Informal environment; personal preferences; expertise; islands of expertise.

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