The International Union of Biological Sciences Commission for Biological Education (IUBS-CBE) organised an international Symposium on Biological Education, in collaboration with the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France, the Laboratoire de Didactique et Epistémologie des Sciences (LDES) of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and UNESCO. The Symposium was held 15-18 May, 2000, in the MNHN Grande Galerie de l'Evolution. ..

This publication of the Conference Proceedings lists the titles of the presentations given, with links to corresponding papers.

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS

Biological Education : Challenges of the 21st Century	Talal Younès, International Union of Biological Sciences, Paris	HTML	PDF file
Biology, education and ethics New tools, new directions What's new about learning?	André Giordan, LDES, University of Geneva, Switzerland	HTML (Ethics)  HTML (Tools) HTML (Learning)	PDF (Ethics) PDF (Tools) PDF (Learning)
Views on Education in Biology	Werner Arber, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
Public expectation, education, research advances	Jean-Claude Mounolou, International Union of Biological Sciences, France
Switching from teaching to learning	Tony Griffiths, University of British Columbia, Canada Barbara Moon, University College of the Fraser Valley, Canada	HTML	PDF file
Biodiversity education	Peter Bridgewater, UNESCO, Australia
Ecology teaching in India and in developing countries	P.S. Ramakrishnan, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India	HTML	PDF file
New directions in biology teacher education	Cécile Vander Borght, Laboratoire de pédagogie des sciences, Marie Curie, rue du compas, 2, B. 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.	HTML	PDF file
Du jardin royal des plants médicinales à la création de la Grande Galerie de l'Evolution : 350 ans d'évolution des musées d'histoire	Yves Girault, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
Technology facilitated biological investigations in education	M. Patricia Morse, Zoology Dept., University of Washington, Seattle, USA Robert F. Tinker, Concord Consortium, Massachusetts, USA
Personal and social implications of biology--questions for the future	Peter Kelly, University of Southampton, England
Changing trends of biology education	Faqir C. Vohra, IUBS Commission for Biological Education, France	HTML	PDF file
The role of natural history museums in biology education	Patrick Blandin, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France	HTML
UNESCO Statement	Delivered on behalf of Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO, Paris	HTML	PDF file

 

WORKSHOPS

Bioethics

Why bioethics is needed and what bioethics is needed - Results of IUBS member survey	Darryl Macer,University of Tsukuba, Japan	HTML	PDF file
Bioethics education for university biology students	Irina Pollard, Macquarie University, Australia
Philosophical issues for biologists regarding animal experiments	Frank J. Leavitt, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Workshops to teach bioethics to biologists in developing countries	Jayapaul Azariah, India Bioethics Association, India	HTML	PDF file
Teaching social and ethical issues in the curriculum arising from developments in biomedical research	Ralph Levinson, University of London, England	HTML
Analysis of didactic strategies to help students develop argumentation skills in the area of biotechnology	Laurence Simonneaux, École Nationale de Formation Agronomique, France	HTML	PDF file
The relevance of ethical reasoning in science education	Anja Lembens, Michaël Schallies, Anneliese Wellensiek, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany
Towards pragmatical bioethics	Jacques Rozenberg, Départment of Philosophy and Epistemology, Université Paris 7, France	HTML	PDF file

Educational Technologies

The impact of technology on biology education: modeling, probes and Web-delivered courses

M. Patricia Morse, Zoology Dept., University of Washington, Seattle, USA Robert F. Tinker, Concord Consortium, Massachusetts, USA

Biotechnology

Teaching biotechnology at school	Horst Bayrhuber, Universität Kiel, Germany
Conceptions about biotechnology	Fred Brinkmann, Hogeschool Holland, Academie voot Communicatie, The Netherlands
Social perspective taking of students in moral judging on genetech	Corinna Hoessle, University of Hamburg, Germany
Evaluating classroom discussions of gene technology ­ methodological issues and outcomes	Jenny Lewis, University of Leeds, England
Biotechnology/genetic engineering : research on teaching and learning in a critical thinking context	Vasiliki Zogza-Dimitriadi, University of Patras, Greece	HTML	PDF file
Biotechnologies as a context for enhancing both junior high-school students' learning of abstract biological processes and development of attitudes towards biotechnologies	Amos Dreyfus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; Gina Olsher, Beit Berl College, Israel
Realising the potential of partnerships in developing the teaching of biotechnology in schools	John Grainger, National Centre for Biotechnology Education, The University of Reading, England
Understanding and valuing in biotechnology and genetic engineering. Results and implications from school project work in the bio-region Rhein-Neckar-Triangle	Michael Schallies, Anja Lembens, Anneliese Wellensiek, Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany
Myths of everyday life : fantasies and metaphors concerning genetic engineering	Ulrich Gebhard, Gerlind Meixner, Rosemarie Mielke, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Self-concept, values and attitudes towards genetic engineering	Ulrich Gebhard, Gerlind Meixner, Rosemarie Mielke, Universität Hamburg, Germany

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS

I	Evolutionnisme - de Darwin à Mayr : quelques réflexions sur la nouvelle philosophie de la biologie et son enseignement	Rodolphe M.J. Toussaint, Département des Sciences de l'Education, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
	How biological determinism is encouraged	Jeffrey N. Thomas, Centre for Science Education, The Open University, England	HTML	PDF file
II	Outlines and outcomes of educational research : the scientific and the societal relevance of the theme "reproduction" with regard to biology teaching in secondary schools in Belgium (Flanders)	Patrick Reygel, Ivo Lambrichts, Frank Vandenabeele, University of Limbourg, Belgium	HTML	PDF file
	Motivating biology undergraduates for molecular subjects : myoglobin, biochemistry, periwinkles and biodiversity	Manuel Costa, Carlos Pereira de Brito, Department of Biology, University of Azores, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
III	Children's learning about plants and animals in the environment	Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Michael J. Reiss, Homerton College, Cambridge, England
	The basics of biology - living things	Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Homerton College, Cambridge, England	HTML	PDF file
	Biodiversity reduction as an example of a major global issue threatening sustainability and the contribution of biological education in schools	Chris Gayford, The School of Education, The University of Reading, England	HTML	PDF file
	Endangered resources: biodiversity and cultural knowledge	Promila Kapoor-Vijay, Stephen Blackmore, Natural History Museum of London, England	HTML
IV	Teaching brain and its epigenesis : a challenge for more citizenship	Pierre Clément, LIRDHIST, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France		PDF file
	Public awareness for brain research : the Swiss experience ­ report on Swiss Brain Awareness Week 1999	Béatrice Roth, Pierre J. Magistretti, European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB), Switzerland	HTML	PDF file
V	Developing critical thinking and public awareness through issues in posters	Salvacion P. Angtuaco, Department of Biology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines	HTML	PDF file
	LifeLines: investigative case-based learning for the 21st century learners	Margaret A. Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University Ethel D. Stanley, BioQUEST	HTML	PDF file
	Biology in the secondary school : from the student's views to the school curriculum	Isabel P. Martins, Cristina Dias, Isabel Porfirio Silva, University of Aveiro, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
VI	Balanced thinking - a challenge to biological education from a cross-cultural German/Japanese study	Gerhard Schaefer, University of Hamburg, Germany
	Teachers' Aims in Anatomical and Morphological Comparisons: an empirical study	Marcus Hammann, IPN, Kiel, Germany	HTML	PDF file
	Rôle joué par la "théorie de la décision" dans la formation des décideurs et dans l'exercice de la prise de décisions dans les domaines de la biologie	Maurice Girault, Yves Girault, Muséum National l'Histoire Naturelle
VII	Influence of a constructivist didactic strategy on creativity and learning in cellular biology	Sonia Teppa, Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University, Venezuela	HTML	PDF file
	Metacognitive use of biological knowledge in elementary schools	Silvia Caravita, Istituto di Psicologia del C.N.R., Roma, Italy	HTML	PDF file
VIII	SCIENCES AND LIFE ISSUES
	Experience in teaching integrative biology to non-biologists as the basis for bio-centric world vision	Tamara Korzhenevskaya, Ludmila Pyvovarova, Mikhail Gusev, Moscow State University	HTML	PDF file
	D'une culture biologique aux mutations sociales	Daniel Brabis, France
IX	BIOLOGY WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
	National Science Foundation efforts in elementary, secondary and informal Education	Jane Butler Kahle, National Science Foundation, USA
	A novel approach to increasing environmental biology literacy	Virginia Bennett, Georgia Southern University, USA	HTML	PDF file
	Necessary trends of biology education at the tertiary level	L. Horst Grimme, European Countries Biologists Association	HTML	PDF file
	Widening access to a South African university : an approach used to redress inequality of the past education system	Shirley Hanrahan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa	HTML	PDF file
X	INTERACTIVE TEACHING
	About utilisation of children's conceptions to create an interactive book	Francine Pellaud, LDES, University of Geneva, Switzerland	HTML
	Describing behavior in small cooperative problem-solving groups: teacher/students interactions	Maria Rui Vilar Correia, University of Porto, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
	The relevance of role playing in environmental education	Claudie Bonnet, IUFM Versailles, Centre de Cergy, France	HTML	PDF file
	Interactive teaching techniques with and without technology	Alison Morrison-Shetlar, Georgia Southern University, USA	HTML	PDF file
XI	INNOVATIVE MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS
	Socio-cultural meanings of photographs to restore lost ecological scenery : cases from Lake Biwa, Japan	Yukiko Kada, A. Makino, Lake Biwa Museum
	Résultats de l'écoute des publics, des experts en biologie et des professeurs de biologie	Marie-Claire Habib, Aymard de Mengin ; Christine Guillou, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ; Serge Chaumier, Centre Etude Recherche Expositions et Musées CEREM	HTML	PDF file
	Pour une vulgarisation de la biologie, des expositions au multimédia : quels impacts et comment les atteindre	Jack Guichard, IUFM de Paris et LIREST-ENS Cachan	HTML	PDF file
	Dénommer une nouvelle exposition permanente: qui a peur des biotechnologies?	Marie-Claire Habib, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ; Daniel Jacobi, Université d'Avignon ; Emanuelle Vareille, Centre Recherche Culture et Musées		PDF file
	La serre, jardin du futur: une exposition comme les autres?	Viviane Jovet et Emmanuel Vareille, Université de Bourgogne, CRCM, France	HTML
XII	NEW SCIENCE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
	Using distance education to promote environmental education to enter the 21st century.	Rita Bissoonauth, Mauritius Institute of Education
	International telecommunication projects as one of the perspectives in creating of a common educational and cross-cultural framework	Tatyana Novikova, Comprehensive Secondary School n° 28, Voronezh, Russia		PDF file
	Secondary science teachers use of, and attitudes towards, ICT In Scotland	Donald S. Gray and Nicholas Souter, University of Strathclyde, Scotland	HTML	PDF file
	The future of strategic modeling and simulations to support investigative learning in undergraduate Biology	Virginia Vaughan, Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST Library, USA	HTML	PDF file
	The role of a research center in the promoting of scientific awareness	Stefania Uccelli, Tiziana Ruzzon, Paola Bet, Alessandra Corda Mannino, National Institute for Cancer Research, Advanced Biotechnlogy Centre, Genoa
XIII	ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
	Pupils' and teachers' attitudes related to the environment and its protection	Maria C. Miranda, Portuguese Biologists Association; Mario Jorge Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
	The observation of birds as a strategy of environmental education	A.S. Sousa, Portuguese Biologists Association; Mario Jorge Freitas, University of Minho, Portugal	HTML
	Laboratory work and field work in the study of ecosystems - an investigative approach	Luis Dourado, University of Minho, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
XIV	SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
	Education for sustainable development : a challenge for biology teachers	Regula Kyburz-Graber, University of Zurich, Switzerland	HTML	PDF file
	Promoting ecological judgments in students by reflective training on sustainable development indicators	Susanna Bögeholz, Institute for Science Education (IPN) Kiel, Germany
	Scientific and technological literacy for sustainable development in the 21st century	Patrick Whittle, International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE), England Sharada D. Maharjan, Centre for Literacy Enhancement in Environment, Science & Technology (CLEST), Nepal	HTML	PDF File
	The difficulties of presenting sustainable development in an exhibition	Françine Pellaud, LDES, University of Geneva, Switzerland	HTML
	An educational experience for learning Andean biodiversity contents in the school	Juan D. Lopez-Giraldo, Catholic Institute of International Relations, Noé Chavez, Ingrid Salcedo, Yda Torreblanca, Caterina Cardenas, Asociación Pukllasunchis Proyecto de Educación Ambiental	HTML	PDF File
	People and students' conceptions about protected areas : the case of Corno de Bico - Participation of local community	Helena Rebelo, Portuguese Biologists Association; Mário Jorge Freitas, University of Minho
XV	HEALTH
	Teaching and learning of health knowledge at schools	Osmo O.P. Hänninen, Finland	HTML	PDF file
	Promotion of health by teaching simple techniques to families in developing countries	Pauli Rantanen, Hannu Happonen, Uganda and Finland
	Biology and health education in Hungary - a nation in transition	Emil Monos, Hungary
	Health enhancing physical activity and Internet - do they match?	Heikki Pekkarinen, Finland
	Environnement et santé : une perspective d'intégration pour l'enseignement des sciences biologiques	Danielle Grynszpan, Fondation Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
	Education related to injection therapy	Vivian Wyatt, University of Leeds, England	HTML
	People should be educated to travel safely	Christiane Nivet, University of Paris 7, France
XVI	SEX EDUCATION
	Living sexuality : "giving more life to years" and "giving more health to life"	Isabel Martins, Filomena Teixeira, Luisa Veiga, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Higher School of Education ; António Meliço-Silvestre, University of Coimbra, School of Medicine, Portugal
	Sexologie au delà de l'an 2000 : éducation sexuelle au delà de la physiologie	Gloria Tellez, Fundación Ana Ravell, Spain	HTML	PDF file
	A leading program of primary prevention on HIV infection/AIDS in elementary school	Maria T.M. Vilaça, Manuel J.C. Sequeira, University of Minho, Portugal	HTML	PDF file
XVII	INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY
	Integrative biology : philosophy and relevance to education	Marvalee Wake, University of California at Berkeley, USA	HTML	PDF File
	Integrative biology : topics and issues	Motonori Hoshi, Keio University, Japan
	Constructing an experimental relationship to living beings in order to learn biology	Maryline Coquidé, IUFM Rouen, GDST/LIREST, ENS Cahan, France	HTML	PDF file
	Introducing activities for scientific literacy and popularization in the academic formation of young biological scientists in Brazil	Tania C. Araujo-Jorge, Lab. Cell Biology, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil	HTML	PDF file
	Quel enseignement des sciences à l'aube du troisième millénaire ? Vers une politique éducative commune aux différents acteurs	Faouzia Kalali, IUFM Paris, France		PDF file
XIX	FUTURE PROSPECTS
	Teaching cell biology in the Philippines	Filipinas F. Natividad, University of the Philippines, St. Luke's Medical Center
	New prospective role for biology teachers	Medhat El-Nemr and Hala M. Tolymat, Department of Curricula and Methodology, University of Alexandria, Egypt	HTML	PDF file
	Biological education: concerns for the future	Nicholas T. Souter and Donald S. Gray, University of Strathclyde, Scotland	HTML
	Key ideas, continuity, coherence and progression in Scottish biological curricula	Nicholas T. Souter and Donald S. Gray, University of Strathclyde, Scotland		PDF file
	The future of school biology education	Michael J. Reiss, Homerton College, Cambridge, England		PDF file
XX	NEW ACTORS AND PARTNERS
	A concert hall for science ­ where people meet scientists	Kazuto Kato, Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan
	Supporting Biology teachers : professional societies in the 21st century; What do Biology teachers need : a survey of United States Biology teachers	Ann S. Lumsden, Florida State University, Catherine A. Wilcoxson, University of Northern Arizona
XXI	CITIZENSHIP
	Introduction	Michael Atchia, Roman Catholic Education Authority, Mauritius	HTML	PDF file
	Human ethology - a challenge to biological education	Vilmos Csányi, L. Eötvös University
	New pedagogic approaches for introducing in the field of biotechnology a way to open biological research to the public	Sybill Ebers, Deutsches Hygiene Museum
	Science and technology education for responsible citizenship : the case of environmental education	Rodolphe Toussaint, Département des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
	Bilingual biological and environmental studies in the secondary school as a way of improving students' European mentality	Natalya Marchenko, Comprehensive Secondary School no. 28, Voronezh, Russia	HTML	PDF file

POSTERS

Rôle de la muséologie dans la diffusion scientifique des connaissances	Rôle de la muséologie dans la diffusion scientifique des connaissances Rakia Abdourahamane, Amandine Péquignot, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Le spectacle des marionnettes : un support possible de messages préventifs contre le SIDA au Niger "Cas du Milieu Haoussa"	Rakia Abdourahamane , Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
A giant plant cell model for cell biology education	Luiz Edmundo V. Aguiar, Claudia M.L.M. Coutinho, Tania C. Araujo-Jorge, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnologica de Quimica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil	HTML	PDF file
Biodiversity education in school through Andean medicinal plants	Caterina Cardenas, Asociación Pukllasunchis, Proyecto de Educación Ambie
Trimming poster hand-outs into pieces to develop student skills	Manuel Joao Costa, University of Azores	HTML	PDF file
Introducing undergraduate biology students to cytogenetics research : from onions to humans	Luisa Enriquez, Ma.Vinella Natividad, Remedios Roderos, St. Luke's Medical Centre
Teaching food biotechnology across the 16+ curriculum : interdisciplinary INSET workshops based on European collaboration	John Grainger & team, The University of Reading, England	HTML	PDF file
Challenge toward the enhancement of public awareness about the interactive Environment between lakes and people at Lake Biwa Museum (1) : Overall Organization and activities	A. Makino, Y. Kada, K. Kameda, H. Kawanabe, Lake Biwa Museum, Japan
Challenge toward the enhancement of public awareness about the interactive Environment between lakes and people at Lake Biwa Museum (2) : People's Participatory programs	Y. Kada, A. Makino, H. Kawanabe, Lake Biwa Museum, Japan
Developing biology education in developing countries	Mohammad Karamudini, Ministry of Education, Iran
Preparation of a laboratory manual in cell and molecular biology for Philippine schools	Ronald R. Matias & team, Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines
Impact of EIBE activities in the Czech Republic on improvement of biotechnology education and environmental protection	Hana Nováková, Pedagprogram, Czech Republic	HTML
Student-centred biology education : experiences with developing and teaching "structure and function of cells and tissues"	Patrick Reygel & team, Limburg University Center, Belgium	HTML	PDF file
Education pour le contrôle de la maladie de Chagas - un défi multidisciplinaire en Amérique Latine	Mariana Sanmartino, Liliana Crocco, National University of Cordoba	HTML	PDF file
Evaluation of actions in education of health and sexuality in French agricultural highschools	Philippe Vincent & team, Ministry for Agricultural Fisheries - DGER	HTML	PDF file

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