TY  - JOUR
TT  - AN ANALYSIS OF THE TREATMENT OF EVOLUTION IN MOROCCAN SECONDARY TEXTBOOKS
AU  - Agorram, Boujemaa
AU  - Zaki, Moncef
AU  - Selmaoui, Sabah
AU  - Khzami, Salah-Eddine
PY  - 2016
DA  - September
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 286
EP  - 288
VL  - 5
KW  - Evolution
KW  - textbooks
KW  - natural selection
KW  - content analysis
N2  - For almost of scientists, the concept ofEvolution occupies a central position in Biology. A few years ago, the topic ofevolution was introduced in secondary programs. The teaching of this topicstill controversial and causes many resistances in Morocco. In this study,Biology textbooks were analyzed  usingthe methods of content analysis. Results show that this topic is treated in theend of school programs and in most cases the teaching approach is characterizedby superficial handling of key ideas. The treatment of Evolution is tooconfusing and abstract, there are a few mistakes and misconceptions, thevisuals are sometimes inadequate. Only equine evolution is studied. There islack of reference to the Human evolution in the syllabus as well in alltextbooks analyzed.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//366799
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/384186
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