Een analyse van de ontwikkeling van het begrip ‘ENZYM’ in een leerboek voor het VWO

Tijdschrift voor Didactiek van de Beta-wetenschappen, uitgegeven door het Freudenthal Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht in de periode 1983-2014

Thijssen, G. Tijdschrift voor Didactiek van de Beta-wetenschappen 1987 – 5(3), 183-215 Download pdf

Understanding in biology, as in any science, is made possible by the application of certain theoretical principles. Some of these principles are applicable to a broad range of subjects, in this way tying together various topics in the domain of biology. One such principle is the concept of ‘enzyme’. If one of the goals of biology teaching is that students should see coherence in biology content, they should see the applicability of principles like the working of enzymes in different parts of the biology curriculum. In this study an analysis is made of the way the concept ‘enzyme’ is introduced and developed in a Dutch secondary school biology textbook. " ‘Development’ in this case means ‘application to successive topics in accordance with Ausubel’s principles of progressive differentiation’ and ‘ integrative reconciliation’ ".