Resumen

CAURIN ALONSO, Carlos  y  MARTINEZ PENELLA, María José. Analysis of the concept of biodiversity in third and fourth grade of primary education books in Valencia's Community (Spain). Perfiles educativos [online]. 2013, vol.35, n.141, pp.97-114. ISSN 0185-2698.

In this article the authors present the results of a research about the ways in which books of third and fourth grade of primary education deal with biodiversity. To do so, they chose a group of very usual publishing houses for children between 8 and 10years old and analyzed the text based on the systemic networks model, describing the language and the activities that are used in them. They focus on the books tackle the matters of ecosystem, variability and joint treatment, understanding the latter as a systemic relation between ecosystem's different components. The authors wanted basically to analyze the aspects that connect genetic diversity, the species and the ecosystems, the ethical and moral aspects and the aesthetic ones. The intention has been to prove that the treatment that is given in the textbooks to the concept of biodiversity is both inadequate and incomplete to reach a holistic understanding of this notion.

Palabras llave : Biodiversity; Primary education; Textbooks; Teaching of sciences; Environmental education.