caa a22 4500 463205820 CHVBK 20180405153125.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11191-006-9019-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11191-006-9019-9 Students' Preconceptions About Evolution: How Accurate is the Characterization as "Lamarckian” when Considering the History of Evolutionary Thought? [Elektronische Daten] [Kostas Kampourakis, Vasso Zogza] In this paper, the main points of Lamarck's and Darwin's theoretical conceptual schemes about evolution are compared to those derived from 15years old students' explanations of evolutionary episodes. We suggest that secondary students' preconceptions should not be characterized as "Lamarckian”, because they are essentially different from the ideas that Lamarck himself possessed. Most students in our research believed that needs directly impose changes on animal bodies in order to survive in a given environment and accepted the possibility of extinction whereas Lamarck believed that it was the effect of use or disuse that would produce changes on body structures and that species would transform but would not die out. We conclude that the relationship between secondary students' ideas and historical views on evolution should be treated more skeptically, given the differences in the historical, social and cultural contexts, and that instruction should focus on students' ideas of need-driven evolution as well as on the role of chance in the evolutionary process. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Darwin nationallicence evolution nationallicence Lamarck nationallicence students' preconceptions nationallicence Kampourakis Kostas Geitonas School, Athens, Greece aut Zogza Vasso University of Patras, 26500, Rion, Greece aut Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/3-5(2007-03-01), 393-422 0926-7220 16:3-5<393 2007 16 11191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9019-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9019-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kampourakis Kostas Geitonas School, Athens, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zogza Vasso University of Patras, 26500, Rion, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science & Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/3-5(2007-03-01), 393-422 0926-7220 16:3-5<393 2007 16 11191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer