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Why dissection? [electronic resource] : animal use in education / Lynette A. Hart, Mary W. Wood, and Benjamin L. Hart.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.Description: xii, 225 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 179/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HV4712 .H37 2008
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Contents:
Today's biology classroom crisis -- Early history of dissection: controversy and advances -- Controversy in the development of science education and dissection -- The context for dissection: educational testing -- National versus state educational standards: whither dissection? -- Legislation and regulations related to using animals and dissection in teaching -- Empowering teachers to find substitutes for dissection -- Students and the culture of dissection -- The animals used in teaching -- New teaching resources in the computer age -- Locating teaching resources and research literature on alternatives.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index.

Today's biology classroom crisis -- Early history of dissection: controversy and advances -- Controversy in the development of science education and dissection -- The context for dissection: educational testing -- National versus state educational standards: whither dissection? -- Legislation and regulations related to using animals and dissection in teaching -- Empowering teachers to find substitutes for dissection -- Students and the culture of dissection -- The animals used in teaching -- New teaching resources in the computer age -- Locating teaching resources and research literature on alternatives.

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