Permanent forestry plots: a potentially valuable teaching resource in undergraduate biology programs for the Caribbean

H. Valles; C.M.S. Carrington

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Permanent forestry plots: a potentially valuable teaching resource in undergraduate biology programs for the Caribbean

Formally Refereed

Authors:

H. Valles, C.M.S. Carrington

Year:

2016

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

Caribbean Naturalist Special issue no.1

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Abstract

There has been a recent proposal to change the way that biology is taught and learned in undergraduate biology programs in the USA so that students develop a better understanding of science and the natural world. Here, we use this new, recommended teaching– learning framework to assert that permanent forestry plots could be a valuable tool to help develop biology literacy in the Caribbean and to help reverse what we perceive to be a trend of increasing detachment from nature in our Caribbean undergraduate biology students.

Keywords

teaching–learning framework, biology literacy, teaching methods, teaching tools, Caribbean

Citation

Valles, H.; Carrington, C.M.S. 2016. Permanent forestry plots: a potentially valuable teaching resource in undergraduate biology programs for the Caribbean. Caribbean Naturalist Special issue no.1:52-62.