EDUCATING EXISTENTIAL BIOLOGY

<body onload="FP_preloadImgs(/*url*/'../images/buttonD.gif',/*url*/'../images/buttonC.gif')"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#9D4D00">Educating Existential Biology</font></p> <p align="center"> <font face="Arial"><span lang="nl" style="font-style: italic; font-size: 9pt"> reorientation of Biology Education in Dutch Schools, approached from a pedagogical and developmental psychological perspective</span></font></p> <p align="center"> <font face="Arial">RESULTS OF A STUDY</font></p> <p align="center"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">Cornelis Godefridus Marie van Mierlo</span></p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="../Dutch/Images/goudenman2.jpg" width="510" height="351"></p> <p align="center">   <font face="Arial" size="1"> De Golden Man by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tooshagenaars.nl">Toos Hagenaars</a></font></p> <h6 style="margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000" lang="nl">THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY</span></h6> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial">This study is carried out by a pedagogue. The intention is to contribute to the science of pedagogy, in particular, the science of teaching. The study proposes a design for a new school program. The existence of a fundamental question among boys and girls - that is not answered in today’s school curriculum – is the basic assumption. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial">This dissertation seeks to tackle this problem by developing a revised curriculum on the subject biology in a way that the existential question will be answered during the course of the secondary school years.</span></p> <h6 style="margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000">THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THIS WEBSITE</span></h6> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; ">This site is meant to be visited by people who:</span></p> <ul> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; "> <font style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; "> Are interested in a new approach to the human-animal world reality </font></span></p></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; "> <font style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; ">Ask themselves how it can be that they are humans and seek to explore the physical and mental being of humankind</font></span></p></li> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt">Want to earn a living with educating boys and girls and are teaching the biology in their schools</span></p></li> </ul> <h6 style="margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; color: black">ABOUT THIS WEBSITE</span></h6> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt">This website version of the manuscript will be improved and extended continuously. Under the heading <a href="Disclainer.htm">Disclaimer</a>, you can find out more about the purpose of the study. On this website you can read a summary of each chapter in English, but the full text is only available in Dutch. Under <a href="DownloadForm.htm">Download</a> you can get the complete text of the book, with the exception of the time-bars. If you would like to own the time-bars (printed with a total length of 6 meters), you need to <a href="Order.htm">Order</a> the book.</span></p> <h6 style="margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000">IMPLEMENTATION</span></h6> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt">To complete the study, a design for a biology curriculum, the implementation will be the crucial and final step. I will keep track of several implementations and my own program on my website: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cornelisvanmierlo.nl">www.cornelisvanmierlo.nl</a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .8in" align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial">This study will benefit a lot from the comments of those who have read and thought over the text. Therefore, I invite you to post your comments and ideas in the <a href="../Forum/ForumStart.htm">Forum</a> pages of this site. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .8in" align="justify"> <span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family:Arial"><b>It is important to me that the reader will post his  views, opposing or similar to mine, without restraint.</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .8in" align="justify"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt">Cornelis van Mierlo, November 2004.</span></p> <p align="left"> <span lang="NL" style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Courier"> <a href="Contents.htm"> <img border="0" id="img1" src="../images/buttonB.gif" height="15" width="76" alt="Contents" fp-style="fp-btn: Simple Arrow 3; fp-transparent: 1; fp-orig: 0" fp-title="Contents" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'../images/buttonC.gif')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'../images/buttonB.gif')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'../images/buttonD.gif')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'../images/buttonC.gif')"></a></span></p> <p align="center"> <span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic" lang="nl"> Website design by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hvm.com.au">www.hvm.com.au</a></span></p> <p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: .8in"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt">Deze site is ook beschikbaar in het Nederlands  </span><font size="4"> <a target="_top" href="../Dutch/index.html"> <img border="0" src="../images/j0362767.jpg" width="24" height="14"></a></font><font size="1">  </font> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt">und im Deutsch </span> <font size="1"> <img border="0" src="../Dutch/Images/MPj03626820000[1].jpg" width="25" height="14"></font></p> </body>