Abstract Modern, student-oriented teaching can be characterized by the promotion of autonomy and interest. In school subject biology, it is necessary to focus on different ecosystems from aspects. One ecosystem that has hardly been considered in biology didactics so far UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea. Therefore, this study implemented station work a class as method educational content Sea det...

We examined the effect that basic beliefs about natural resources and fire management have on an individual’s decision to create defensible space around his or her residence in the urban—wildland interface. Using data from a mailback questionnaire, respondents in north central Minnesota were clustered by basic value—laden beliefs toward forest and fire management and compared across a number of...

OBJECTIVE The study proposes "critical solidarity" as a value to be incorporated into the 21st century's bioethics agenda and as an instrument to guide people and associations in volunteer praxis. METHODS To explain how solidarity materializes itself, the motivations for engaging in volunteer activities in associations that integrate the corps of volunteers of the Instituto Nacional do Cancer...