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The ‘Attentive and Reflective Observer’

Darwin-Inspired Learning and the Teaching of Evolution

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Evolution has grown into a big idea, which continually bursts out of whatever container it is put in. Dobzhansky’s maxim that ‘Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution’ is as imperative now as it ever was, because of the significant new impetus generated by contemporary observation and research (Dobzhansky, 1973).

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    Neil Ingram

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    Carolyn J. Boulter

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    Michael J. Reiss

  3. Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Dawn L. Sanders

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Ingram, N. (2015). The ‘Attentive and Reflective Observer’. In: Boulter, C.J., Reiss, M.J., Sanders, D.L. (eds) Darwin-Inspired Learning. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-833-6_17

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