Student Primary Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Biotechnology—Are They Prepared to Teach Biotechnological Literacy?
Student Primary Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Biotechnology—Are They Prepared to Teach Biotechnological Literacy?
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小学教师对生物技术的知识和态度——他们准备好教授生物技术素养了吗？
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Cristina Valls
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作者：
Marina Casanoves de la Hoz;Anna Solé;J. Haro;N. Gericke;Cristina Valls
生物技术在农业、工业和医学领域的发展速度改变了我们的生活，我们需要生物技术素养来理解它，这意味着小学教师需要生物技术素养，以便教育后代。本研究的目的是调查瑞典职前小学教师对生物技术的知识和态度，并将结果与相应的西班牙教师组进行比较。使用已建立的问卷调查工具Biotech XXI收集数据并进行统计分析。研究结果表明，瑞典职前小学教师有知识差距有关的基本遗传概念，支持生物技术，虽然他们知道生物技术的应用。他们对生物技术在保健方面的应用持相当积极的态度，但对购买和使用转基因产品的态度则不那么积极。知识水平越高，态度越积极，这表明在小学教师中扩大生物技术知识和教学实践的态度基础。瑞典样本中的知识和态度水平与西班牙教师相似，这表明类似的情况可能在许多国家普遍存在。研究结果表明，有必要重新考虑职前小学教师培训计划中的科学课程，以更好地为小学教师的生物技术素养教学做好准备。
The speed of development of biotechnology within agriculture, industry, and medicine has changed our lives, and we need a biotechnological literacy to understand it. This implies that teachers in primary schools need to be biotechnologically literate in order to educate future generations. The aim of this study was to investigate Swedish pre-service primary school teachers’ knowledge of and attitudes towards biotechnology and contextualize the results by comparing them with a corresponding group of Spanish teachers. Data was collected using the established questionnaire instrument Biotech XXI and analyzed statistically. The findings demonstrate that Swedish pre-service primary school teachers have knowledge gaps relating to the basic genetic concepts that underpin biotechnology, although they are aware of biotechnological applications. Their attitudes are quite positive towards biotechnological applications in health, but less so to buying and using genetically modified products. Higher levels of knowledge were correlated with more positive attitudes, indicating an attitudinal basis for expanding the knowledge of and teaching practices for biotechnology among primary teachers. The level of knowledge and attitudes in the Swedish sample were similar to those of the Spanish teachers, suggesting a similar situation may be prevalent in many countries. The results indicate a need to reconsider the science curricula within pre-service primary school teacher training programs in order to better prepare primary teachers for teaching biotechnological literacy.
影响因子：
8.8
作者：
Bromme, Rainer;Goldman, Susan R.
通讯作者：
Goldman, Susan R.