Alternativas a la enseñanza de la genética en Educación Secundaria

Abstract

In this paper we analyse some important issues related with teaching Genetics in secondary school. Starting from the premise that students’ learning is based on prior knowledge, we examine the students’ ideas on the location, transmission and changes in biological inheritance, before starting their first academic course on Genetics. Taking into account such knowledge, we establish several criteria for selecting and sequencing the teaching contents and analyse any characteristics that the learning activities might have to improve students’ knowledge of Genetics.