Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo

University of Valladolid | UVA

Purpose Gardens are being used at all educational stages, because they provide with a real-world context for active and experiential learning. In Spain, there exists a movement in favor of their incorporation to higher education for a variety of purposes but prevalently as an innovative resource to teach sciences to pre-service teachers. The purpos...

The educational use of daily-life contexts is considered a valuable strategy to promote meaningful science learning, since it facilitates the establishment of connections between previous knowledge, personal interests, and new learning. The aim of this work is to provide evidence to support the presence of gardens at educational centers, by assessi...

Studies have shed light on the idea that people who have experiences in natural settings might be more aware of the environment. Learning gardens, as outdoor contexts, might contribute to the development of students’ affective relations toward nature, pro-environmental attitudes, and protective actions; neverthless, these aspects begging to be expl...

Se presenta una investigación sobre las experiencias de aprendizaje de las ciencias de los maestros/as en formación inicial de dos universidades españolas. Se recogieron 263 relatos de vida entre estudiantes de Grado en Educación Infantil y Primaria -a partes iguales en que narraban sus vivencias en las etapas de Infantil, Primaria y Secundaria, y...

The presence of learning gardens in Spain is growing, and the current scenario is highly diverse in relation to issues such as participatory models or purposes, among others. In the context of the 1st National Meeting on organic learning gardens, we convened eight expert practitioners in a focus group. Their discourse was analyzed through content a...

Societal Impact Statement Teachers play an indispensable role in promoting citizens' plant awareness. To this end, they need adequate plant knowledge –including classification–, experience in out‐of‐classroom settings, and enthusiasm for plants. With the aim of improving pre‐service teachers' plant awareness, we designed and implemented a didactic...

The education system plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, to improve understanding and promote action in the soci- ety. Pre-service teachers, as future educators, play a crucial role in shaping the next generation’s attitudes and responses to this pressing issue. This study examines the relationship between cli- mate change competence...

This article defines a theoretical framework that addresses the ecological importance and cultural significance of the soil, as well as the work of some contemporary artists whose artwork has paid special attention to this element. Later, an experience developed in the university setting, but aimed at primary school children, is described. Its obje...

RESUMEN: Se presenta el proyecto EduC3, Educación para el Cambio Climático y la Sostenibilidad, un estudio longitudinal de aprendizaje intergeneracional (PID2020-114358RB-I00), correspondiente a la Convocatoria 2020 de Proyectos de I+D+i del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación español, cuyo objetivo general es identificar barreras y oportunidades pa...

RESUMEN: La educación para el cambio climático es clave en la formación docente; su objetivo debe ser el desarrollo de la competencia climática, que a su vez podría estar influenciada por las emociones que les suscita el cambio climático. En esta investigación se aplicó un cuestionario validado y una escala sobre emociones en 870 docentes en formac...

El suelo es de vital importancia; sin embargo, aspectos como su composición, su estructura, su capacidad para secuestrar carbono, los servicios que ofrece y su carácter no renovable son poco conocidos. Esta secuencia de enseñanza-aprendizaje (SEA) plantea una aproximación científica al conocimiento del suelo mediante indagación, en base a la recogi...

Pre-service teachers’ mental models of the nature of soil were investigated in a sample of 181 students from four different Spanish universities, using three different methodological approaches: a phenomenographic analysis of definitions, a categorisation of labelled-drawings and the analysis of answers to a questionnaire consisting of both open- a...

This study analyzes pre-school children’s mental representations of their idea of a garden, before and after implementing an educational project. A total of 39 and 43 pairs of drawings (pre-post) are analyzed in children aged four and five years, respectively, using two methods: (1) a quantitative approach, based on counting the frequency with whic...

Los artrópodos constituyen un grupo muy relevante de organismos por diversas razones, incluyendo su elevada diversidad, su importancia cuantitativa (en biomasa) y las funciones que realizan en los ecosistemas. Sin embargo, son también un grupo poco popular, que incluye organismos cuyo aspecto nos genera rechazo, así como organismos que constituyen...

The aim of this study was to define a protocol for evaluating university gardens as innovative practice in Education for Sustainability and to apply it to a Latin-American study case, that of the Agroecological Garden in the Faculty of Biology at the Veracruzana University (Mexico). A comparative evaluation was conducted between two different momen...

Se presenta una Secuencia de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje (SEA) para maestros en formación inicial, así como los resultados obtenidos tras dos implementaciones consecutivas en dos universidades diferentes, con una fase de rediseño entre ambas. Su objetivo es promover el conocimiento sobre la reproducción vegetal, la importancia de la polinización entomófi...

El Cambio Climático es la amenaza más seria que afecta a la supervivencia de la humanidad y de los seres vivos de la Tierra. Es un fenómeno complejo cuyo afrontamiento requiere de la activación de conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes. La Educación es una herramienta fundamental para afrontar este desafío y mejorar las estrategias de mitigación y...

Insects form a highly diverse taxonomic group, which has fundamental ecological functions, but is currently in a process of mass extinction. Here, we present the first cycle of design, implementation, and assessment of a didactic sequence oriented towards improving pre-service teachers’ knowledge and appreciation of insect diversity. A methodologic...

This work presents an assessment of pre-service teachers’ argumentative practice, after implementing a novel teaching-learning sequence on soil health including a citizen science programme, which was applied outdoors at the university garden. The sequence was implemented at five Spanish universities with 351 undergraduates studying Early Childhood...

RESUMEN: Se continúa con la serie de publicaciones sobre la flora soriana, previas a la revisión y reedición del Catálogo Florístico de Soria. Se incorporan cerca de una docena de especies como nuevas pa-ra dicho catálogo, se amplía la distribución conocida para muchas otras y se elimina una por basarse en datos mal interpretados. ABSTRACT: Florist...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of a garden-based teaching unit about “Food and Nutrition” on students’ knowledge and habits of sustainable healthy diets, and to compare it with that of a more traditional unit from a textbook. This communication is framed in a research project (EDUCYL2020-01 “Sembrando interés, cosechando competen...

RESUMEN: Se continúa con la serie de publicaciones sobre la flora soriana, previas a la revisión y re-edición del Catálogo Florístico de Soria (SEGURA & al., 2000), donde se incorporan 58 taxones corres-pondientes a plantas vasculares, de los cuales 50 no han sido mencionados anteriormente para la flora provincial. Dado que, en la actualidad, la pr...

For decades, society has been changing towards an energy mix that enhances the use of renewable sources and a more distributed generation of energy. The agricultural sector is included in this trend, which is why several studies are currently being carried out focused on the use of solar energy in greenhouses. This article aims to demonstrate the v...

Sustainability is one of the most important challenges for present and future societies, which needs to be urgently and adequately addressed from Education. This study qualitatively analyses the curricula of primary and secondary education in Spain and Portugal, with the objective of assessing how sustainability is addressed across compulsory educa...

En este trabajo se describe el diseño de una Secuencia de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje (SEA) contextualizada en el Huerto Ecodidáctico (HED) y enfocada a mejorar la comprensión del modelo científico de suelo en los maestros de Infantil y Primaria en formación inicial. La SEA presenta una orientación constructivista que combina el enfoque de cambio concept...

Enseñar ciencias desde una visión constructivista implica atender las concepciones previas de quien aprende. En este sentido, en el presente trabajo se analizan las concep-ciones que mantienen estudiantes de los Grados en Educación Primaria e Infantil sobre tres aspectos: la imagen de la ciencia, su aprendizaje y su enseñanza. Para explorarlas se u...

Gardens are being used as a didactic resource for science teaching at initial teacher training to facilitate students’ competencies development, and so it is necessary to make their influence on learning explicit. The aim of this work is to unveil the learning dimensions that are perceived by future teachers when gardens are used as a didactic tool...

In this paper, it is examined the role that environmental education plays in the development of global good living. Environmental education is introduced, its trajectory and evolution are reviewed in multiple currents, and the predominant one, education for sustainable development, is described, stressing on its implicit conceptions and shortcoming...

En este trabajo se aborda el aprendizaje de estrategias y contenidos que implica el uso de huertos para la enseñanza de las ciencias en la formación inicial de maestros. El estudio se ha llevado a cabo en 3 universidades españolas, en las que el uso de huertos se contextualiza en 3 asignaturas distintas (Ciencias de la Naturaleza en la Universidad...

Wild botanic gardens consist of natural or semi-natural land remnants immersed in large urban areas or botanic gardens, which are managed for purposes of biodiversity preservation and public recreation. In Latin America, they tend to be affected by budget limitations; however, they serve as valuable resources that permit the development of innovati...

Resumen Los Huertos EcoDidácticos son huertos cuyo manejo sigue los principios de la agricultura ecológica o la permacultura, y cuya principal función es educativa. Actualmente están presentes en algunas universidades españolas, en general como resultado de iniciativas puntuales de un profesor o área de conocimiento del ámbito de las ciencias exper...

RESUMEN: Se presentan 5 taxones de la familia Orobanchaceae no mencionados previamente para la flora de la provincia de Soria, como Orobanche cernua, Orobanche hederae, Orobanche santolinae, Phelipanche nana y Phelipanche lavandulaceoides. Todas estas citas aportan una ampliación de su área de distribución conocida, o una me-jora en su demarcación....

Resumo: No presente estudo é mostrada a imagem da ciência que os futuros professores de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental no terceiro ano de sua formação universitária na Universidade de Cádiz apresentam, durante o ano letivo 2015-16. As conceções sobre a ciência que eles mantêm foram detetadas através do INPECIP (Inventário de Crenças Pedagóg...

RESUMEN: Se presenta un análisis de 11 secuencias didácticas diseñadas por un grupo de 46 estu-diantes de Grado en Educación Infantil, sobre las premisas de contextualizarlas en un huerto educativo y de priorizar la investigación del alumnado. Éstas constituyeron el producto final de la asignatura Ciencias de la Naturaleza, en que se abordó la nece...

RESUMEN: Se presenta un análisis de las valoraciones de 26 estudiantes de 3º de Grado en Educación Infantil sobre la experiencia educativa que se desarrolló en el huerto de la Facultad de Educación de Soria en la asignatura Ciencias de la Naturaleza, obtenida a partir del análisis de sus cuadernos del huer-to. En ella se pretendió presentar un mode...

RESUMEN: Se presenta un estudio sobre alumnos/as de 3º de la ESO, realizado en el marco Proyecto de Investigación EDUJCYL2016-INV03-Cultivate a better world, de la Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León, parte de los cuales (n=49) participaron en el curso 2015/2016, y en el marco de la asignatura Ciencias Naturales, en el proyecto L...

Este trabajo presenta una serie de experiencias educativas que giran en torno al uso de huertos ecológicos como recurso didáctico y entorno de aprendizaje, a los que denominamos Huertos EcoDidácticos (HED). En primer lugar se aportan ejemplos de las etapas de Infantil, Primaria y Secundaria, en que se usan huertos escolares, municipales, o bien exi...

En el presente artículo se desarrolla y analiza una experiencia educativa en torno a una serie de talleres de ciencias realizados por los estudiantes del Grado de Maestro/a en Educación Infantil, con el objetivo de acercar y despertar el interés hacia la ciencia a niños y niñas de 3, 4 y 5 años de un centro escolar. Los talleres se conciben como el...

RESUMEN: Se citan 15 táxones correspondientes a plantas vasculares raras no men-cionadas anteriormente para la flora de la provincia de Soria, como Aster tripolium, Alys-sum strigosum, Callitriche cribrosa, Carex extensa, Cheirolophus intybaceus, Gagea du-bia, Juncus balticus subsp. pyrenaeus, Lens lamottei, Lonicera nigra, Poa supina, Ruppia marit...

Se aportan cuatro nuevas localidades españolas para dos especies del género Filago L. (Gnaphaliaea: Asteraceae) poco frecuentes en la mitad septentrional de la Península Ibérica: Filago crocidion (Pomel) Chrtek & Holub y F. congesta Guss. ex DC. Tres de estas localidades corresponden a las primeras citas de F. crocidion en las comunidades autónomas...

RESUMEN: Se presentan 39 taxones correspondientes a plantas vasculares raras no mencionadas previamente en el catálogo florístico de la provincia de Soria, como Apium inundatum, Camphorosma monspeliaca subsp. monspeliaca, Colchicum triphy-llum, Crupina crupinastrum, Blakstonia imperfoliata, Isoetes setaceum, Helianthemum marifolium, Najas marina, e...

RESUMEN: Se aporta una nueva localidad de Coronopus navasii Pau (Brassica-ceae), situada en el páramo de Layna, provincia de Soria, en el extremo noroeste del Sistema Ibérico, España. Esta localidad es actualmente la más septentrional de las co-nocidas. Se discute la potencialidad de su hábitat en el Páramo de Layna y sus perspec-tivas de futuro a...

Here we provide with new data concerning the presence of Coronopus navasii Pau (Brassicaceae) at Páramo de Layna, Soria province, at the northwestern extreme of the Iberian System, Spain. This is currently the northernmost locality known for the species. The potential of its habitat at Páramo de Layna is discussed to the light of recent field works...

Here we present 39 taxa corresponding to rare vascular plants which had not previously been recorded for Soria province, such as Apium inundatum, Camphorosma monspeliaca subsp. monspeliaca, Colchicum triphyllum, Crupina crupinastrum, Blackstonia imperfoliata, Isoetes setaceum, Helianthemum marifolium, Najas marina, etc. Six out of these aforementio...

Four new Iberian localities for two species of the genus Filago L. (Gnaphaliaea: Asteraceae) are provided in this work: Filago crocidion (Pomel) Chrtek & Holub and F. congesta Guss. ex DC. Three of these new localities are first citations of F. crocidion at the regions of Castilla y León (So) and Aragón (Te). In addition, we provide with the first...

A total of 15 rare taxa of vascular plants found in the province of Soria (central-north Spain) are here indicated, all of which constitute new records for this territory, such as Aster tripolium, Alyssum strigosum, Callitriche cribrosa, Carex extensa, Cheirolophus intybaceus, Gagea dubia, Juncus balticus subsp. pyrenaeus, Lens lamottei, Lonicera n...

Resumen En este trabajo partimos del análisis del espacio en que se desarrolla la infancia de la actual generación, pues es este entorno cercano (familia, escuela, barrio, ciudad), a su vez enmarcado dentro del contexto ecológico, político, económico y social del capitalismo globalizado, desde el que niñas y niños construyen su concepción del mundo...

The Iberian Peninsula constitutes the south-western limit of the distribution range of several shrub species that are characteristic to European biogeographic regions different from the Mediterranean biogeographic region. This is particularly true along the north and west coasts of Spain for Atlantic species and in the Pyrenees Mountains for alpine...

RESUMEN Este trabajo presenta una propuesta didáctica para las asignaturas relacionadas con el conocimiento del medio natural en el Grado de Maestro, diseñada respondiendo a todos los requerimientos del ciclo de aprendizaje descritos en el Modelo 7E (Eisenkraft, 2003). Sus objetivos específicos son: integrar contenidos curriculares de Química, Geol...

1. Plant growth in Mediterranean high mountains is limited by the double climatic stress of low winter temperatures and summer drought. Elevational shifts in response to climate change may be complex for species whose distribution is constrained by several climatic factors. 2. We used herb-chronology, that is, the analysis of annual rings in the se...

We addressed the following questions: (1) did defoliation and die-off of the dominant Pinus sylvestris, induced by an extreme drought episode, favour emergence of other tree species; (2) did the defoliated canopies of P. sylvestris resulting from drought promote radial growth among other pre-existing tree species seedlings under them? P. sylvestris...

Senecio auricula Bourgeau (Asteraceae) is a hemicriptophyte endemic to the IberianPeninsula and North Africa (Ascaso and Pedrol, 1991) that inhabits gypsum steppes.Three subspecies have been distinguished, all of them showing narrow distributionranges, restricted to particular, well-defined territories: S. auricula subsp. sicoricus (-Bolòs and Vigo...

In contrast to most high elevation areas, plant growth at Mediterranean mountains is exposed to a summer drought period, which represents an additional climatic constraint to low temperatures. Although arboreal and shrubby conifers coexist at high altitudes, most dendroecological studies have focused on climatic responses of tree species, whereas t...

A detailed understanding of how the climate models the hydraulic system of trees is still lacking, in spite of the need to understand tree response to the ongoing process of climatic change. A systematic correlation of tracheid anatomical features with climate has not been implemented in Mediterranean ecosystems, where climatic change is expected t...

Land abandonment is an exceptionally important global change driver in the northern rim of the Mediterranean Basin, since dramatic changes in structure and composition of plant communities have been observed along subsequent secondary succession. Gypsum outcrops of the Iberian Peninsula constitute particular and threatened habitats where secondary...

Regional climatic patterns result in the synchrony of biological processes along large spatial areas. These patterns may be critical for effective plant recruitment in (semi)arid environments. Nevertheless, recruitment patterns of plant species within their range of distribution are still poorly known. Moreover, this response may be species-depende...

Recurrent fires at short fire intervals tend to simplify vegetation structure and to reduce phy-tomass production in Mediterranean plant communities. Here we compared growth of three Mediterranean perennial woody species between areas affected by one fire versus areas af-fected by two fires during their recent fire history (20 years). Design consis...

In the Mediterranean Basin, the number of large-scale fires and, consequently, the area of regenerated forests after a fire have been increasing over the last few decades. Mediterranean pine tree stand regeneration shows differences in growth and reproductive characteristics depending on site quality. Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) is an impo...

In 1994, six large fires occurred along a climate gradient in Eastern Spain. Ten-year-old trees were selected in the plots established for each location affected by fire. Each selected tree was measured for height and trunk diameter, the number of female strobili and cones, and grouped into four types. A geographical gradient was determined to stud...

Increasing fire recurrence is a major problem threatening Mediterranean-type ecosystems. Moreover, this pattern is predicted to increase owing to global change. Although a reduction in the density and growth of post-fire regeneration is usually observed in recurrently burnt areas, the potential effects on reproductive ability have seldom been explo...

Question: In relation to a single fire, do repeated wildfires in Mediterranean type ecosystems (1) reduce plant species richness or diversity; (2) modify patterns of abundance or dominance of plant species or (3) alter plant composition? Location: Pinus halepensis dominated communities of Catalonia, northeastern Iberian Peninsula, western Mediterra...

Despite many Mediterranean species show efficient mechanisms to withstand fires, they are currently submitted to fire regimes characterized by anthropogenically increased levels of fire recurrence, which may overpass their recovery capacity. We studied fire recurrence effects on Pinus halepensis populations at a regional level in Catalonia (NE Iber...

The effects of fire recurrence on soils were studied on calcareous sites of Mediterranean Pinus halepensis-dominated communities in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula). Soil organic horizons and mineral soils of 15 sites consisting in two adjacent areas, one burnt only once (in 1994) and the other burnt twice (in the same 1994 fire but also once befor...

Does recurrence of fires affect the composition and structure of Mediterranean plant communities?The post-fire regeneration of communities dominated by Pinus halepensis was examined using a regional approach in Catalonia (northeast Iberian Peninsula). Twenty-eight study sites were selected. Each site consisted of two adjacent areas that differed in...

The post-fire regeneration of Mediterranean communities dominated by Pinus halepensis was examined using a regional approach in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula). The study design comprised 28 study sites conformed by neighboring areas burnt once versus twice along 20 years. In all of them, last fire occurred in 1994. Several surveys have been condu...