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Addressing the Educational Needs of Street Children in Lebanon: A Hotchpotch of Policy and Practice

Al-Hroub, Anies; Saab, Cyrine; Vlaardingerbroek, Barend (Oxford University Press, 2021)

The presence of school-age children engaged in various subsistence activities on the street when they should be at school is a common and growing phenomenon worldwide. It has become a major social issue in Lebanon over the ...
Challenges to biology education from new reproductive technologies

Vlaardingerbroek, Barend (Routledge, 2018)

Teaching students about human reproduction is becoming increasingly daunting as assisted reproduction technologies challenge scientific, social and legal perceptions of parenthood. Mitochondrial replacement in particular ...
Linking the experiential, affective and cognitive domains in biology education: a case study–microscopy

Vlaardingerbroek, Barend; Taylor, Neil; Bale, Colin; Kennedy, John Paul (Routledge, 2017)

A greater emphasis in school curricula on the technology of science would encourage teachers to engage their students more in practical work. This in turn might be expected to improve students’ attitudes towards science ...
The Haeckelian hijack of Darwinian deism

Vlaardingerbroek, Barend (Routledge, 2020)

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) is most recalled in the history of biology for his Recapitulation Theory and the allegedly fudged illustrations of embryos that he presented in support of that case. Less well known is his ...
The problem of scale in the interpretation of pictorial representations of cell structure

Vlaardingerbroek, Barend; Taylor, Neil; Bale, Colin (Routledge, 2014)

Diagrams feature prominently in science education, and there has been an increase in research focusing on students use of them in knowledge construction. This paper reports on an investigation into first year university ...
To Brevet or Not to Brevet: Lebanon Contemplates Abandoning the Middle-Secondary Examination

Dabaja, Tharwat; Vlaardingerbroek, Barend (SAGE Publications Inc., 2018)

The Lebanese government in 2016 was presented with a proposal to abandon the middle-secondary Brevet examination. The Brevet acts as a filter for the upper secondary tier and channels considerable numbers of students into ...

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