Piltdown man, paleontology’s most famous fake, was announced in 1912, but didn’t make a dramatic entry into biology textbooks until the 1930s. Championed by one man, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural... more
Piltdown man, paleontology’s most famous fake, was announced in 1912, but didn’t make a dramatic entry into biology textbooks until the 1930s. Championed by one man, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, Piltdown was used as a key point of evidence in support of Osborn’s non-Darwinian conception of evolution. The success of his strategy is an American tragedy. Though Piltdown was deleted from textbooks in 1953, Osborn’s racialized theory remained woven into the story of human development well into the 1970s.
This is a revised version of an article previously published as "What Piltdown Taught.”
School is the place where the formal education is implemented through well defined curriculum. Curriculum enlists subjects to be taught, practicals to be conducted, as well as co-curriculum & extra-curricular activities. Biology is one of... more
School is the place where the formal education is implemented through well defined curriculum. Curriculum enlists subjects to be taught, practicals to be conducted, as well as co-curriculum & extra-curricular activities. Biology is one of the important subjects in the curriculum in junior college level. Biology subject is a study of living organisms. It is concerned with the characteristics, classification, and behaviors of organisms, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the environment. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. Another thought is biological studies emphacise on environmental awareness, animal protection and scientific attitude. The aim of the present paper is to know how the Biology subject is inculcating the Universal Human Values among Junior College Students. The Objectives of the present paper are 1) To analyze the content of XI std Biology Textbook with reference to Universal Human Values. 2) To study the role of Biology Teachers about Biology Textbook with reference to Universal Human Values. 3) To study the opinions of the Biology Teachers and Biology Students about the role of the Biology textbook in inculcation of Human Values. The present study is descriptive in nature, and purposive sampling method is used for sample selection. The data are collected with help of content analysis method, questionnaire and unstructured interview technique. The present paper is helpful for society to know more about the Universal Human Values and also to know how Universal human Values can be inculcated through the Biology subject among the Junior College students.
The study aimed to determine students' opinions about their ninth grade biology textbook that had been created in accordance with the constructivist learning approach. On the basis of a detailed literature review of studies on... more
The study aimed to determine students' opinions about their ninth grade biology textbook that had been created in accordance with the constructivist learning approach. On the basis of a detailed literature review of studies on textbooks; questionnaires used for assessment of textbooks; and constructivist learning approach, a questionnaire was created and administered to 751 students from 9 schools located in the city of Trabzon. The questionnaire was classified into the following sections: contents, learning-teaching activities, assessment and evaluation activities, and physical design. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient was 0.94, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0. Multiple findings pertaining to each section were obtained. Overall, it was found that the students were satisfied with their ninth grade biology textbook. While the existence of various visuals was being appreciated by most of the students, some aspects of the textbooks should be developed in o...
The study aimed to determine students' opinions about their ninth grade biology textbook that had been created in accordance with the constructivist learning approach. On the basis of a detailed literature review of studies on... more
The study aimed to determine students' opinions about their ninth grade biology textbook that had been created in accordance with the constructivist learning approach. On the basis of a detailed literature review of studies on textbooks; questionnaires used for assessment of textbooks; and constructivist learning approach, a questionnaire was created and administered to 751 students from 9 schools located in the city of Trabzon. The questionnaire was classified into the following sections: contents, learning-teaching activities, assessment and evaluation activities, and physical design. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient was 0.94, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0. Multiple findings pertaining to each section were obtained. Overall, it was found that the students were satisfied with their ninth grade biology textbook. While the existence of various visuals was being appreciated by most of the students, some aspects of the textbooks should be developed in o...
