Teleological explanations in evolution classes: video-based analyses of teaching and learning processes across a seventh-grade teaching unit
Abstract Background Students frequently explain evolutionary processes, such as adaptation, in a teleological way. These teleological explanations may involve goal-directedness, purpose, an external designer or the internal needs of individual organisms as causal factors. While many science educator...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Evolution: Education and Outreach |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-020-00125-9 |