Legitimation Code Theory to Facilitate Transition from High School to First-Year Biology

Autor/inn/en	Mouton, Marnel; Archer, Edward
Titel	Legitimation Code Theory to Facilitate Transition from High School to First-Year Biology
Quelle	In: Journal of Biological Education, 53 (2019) 1, S.2-20 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9266
DOI	10.1080/00219266.2017.1420681
Schlagwörter	Biology; Science Instruction; Secondary School Curriculum; Semantics; Articulation (Education); Difficulty Level; Undergraduate Students; Teaching Methods; Educational Change; Epistemology; Lesson Plans; Genetics; Scientific Concepts; Concept Formation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Semantik; Articulation; Artikulation (Ling); Artikulation; Aussprache; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsreform; Erkenntnistheorie; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Humangenetik; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung
Abstract	Institutions of Higher Education have grappled with the predicament of first-year success and epistemological access for years. Recently, a study employed Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to elucidate why students who performed relatively well in high school biology struggled with the subject in first-year. This study shed valuable light on this problem by revealing that the high school biology curriculum is at a completely different level to the university curriculum. In terms of LCT's Semantics dimension, the high school curriculum displayed little movement from context dependent simpler meanings towards the relatively decontextualised complex meanings, frequently encountered in first-year biology. We argue that the Semantics dimension of LCT also offers a useful tool for restructuring first-year biology curricula to intentionally facilitate a more gradual transition for first-year students. Thus, by explicitly planning teaching activities to gradually increase the range between context dependent simpler meanings and relatively decontextualized complex meanings, the potential of cumulative learning can be optimised. This paper reflects on the process of revising a first-year biology curriculum to contribute to greater epistemological access and cumulative knowledge building. (As Provided).
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