20.500.12556/RUL-159523 Evolution content in school textbooks data from eight European countries Background Evolution is a unifying theme in biology and its understanding is essential to address sustainability problems. However, many people across the world do not understand evolution. Textbooks are among the most widely used educational resources and the way they depict evolution may greatly impact students’ scientific literacy in evolution. In this paper we investigate which evolution concepts are addressed in European science textbooks, from the 1st to the 9th grade. A content analysis using the "Framework for the Assessment of school Curricula on the presence of Evolutionary concepts", was performed on textbooks from eight European countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. At least two experienced coders per country independently analysed the texts, images and activities, discussed the results and reached a final consensus. Results Our results show that textbooks lack or rarely address concepts considered important for evolution understanding, notably the processes driving evolution and their daily life implications, limiting opportunities for education for sustainability. Conclusions We recommend that science textbooks emphasize evolution and its processes since the first school years. This recommendation is particularly relevant for the analysed textbooks from Cyprus and Belgium, that cover less than 45% of the concepts important to evolution literacy. textbook analysis scientific literacy evolution education education for sustainability koncepti evolucije naravoslovni učbeniki ocenjevanje šolskih učnih načrtov vsebinska analiza evolucija učbeniki true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-07-11 11:59:30 2024-07-11 11:59:30 2024-07-18 03:25:28 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 V članku je za projekt "For the Quality of Slovenian Textbooks" naveden tudi slovenski naslov "Za kakovost slovenskih učbenikov". 16 str. art. 11 Vol. 17 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 37.091.6:57 1936-6434 10.1186/s12052-024-00203-2 201487875 RAZ_Panayides_Andreas_2024.pdf RAZ_Panayides_Andreas_2024.pdf 1 A220FD31B4C8FECBF4DD19D46A2DEB03 62747b0c5a63b1b3bb4347e1dae084283f1b946626ab87474b9353c2a178935b 200902db-3f71-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187564 https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-024-00203-2 1 4094f7d6-3f6c-11ef-8f74-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=187561 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0