RT Journal Article
T1 An Approach to Prospective Primary School Teachers’ Concept of Environment and Biodiversity through their Design of Educational Itineraries: Validation of an Evaluation Rubric
A1 Morón Monge, Hortensia
A1 Morón Monge, María Carmen
A1 Abril López, Daniel
A1 Daza Navarro, María Paula
AB The aim of this work is to promote outdoor activities to bring students closer to theenvironment and the biodiversity of their surroundings. In this sense, educational itineraries are avery good educational resource that promotes skills developing (scientific, cartographic, educational,etc.) which are necessary for the appropriate design of teaching proposals. The present study is carriedout with the prospective primary teachers from the Universities of Sevilla and Huelva (Spain). Firstly,the purpose is to analyse what type of educational itineraries they can design after an outdoor activity.Secondly, a rubric is validated as an instrument of analysis and evaluation immersed in a qualitativemethodology. The results show what kind of itineraries are designed, and what knowledge andconceptual difficulties the students display. Most of them do not recognize the minimal of elementsmaking up the itineraries, and have difficulties in understanding the environment as a complexsystem. In summary, we think that the students’ lacking of knowledge about the environment andits biodiversity, the poor geographic-cartographic competencies that they have, together with theirmaintenance of traditional conceptions of teaching, do not allow them to design proposals of interestfor teaching-learning processes.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18844
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18844
LA eng
NO Morón Monge, H., Morón Monge, M. del C., Abril López, D., & Daza Navarro, M. P. (2020). An Approach to Prospective Primary School Teachers’ Concept of Environment and Biodiversity through their Design of Educational Itineraries: Validation of an Evaluation Rubric. Sustainability, 12(14), 5553. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145553
NO This research is part of the project I+D EDU2017-82505-P, was funded by the Economic, Industry and Competitive Ministry (Spanish Government)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026