Sabah Selmaoui

• Professor
• Cadi Ayyad University. Marrakech

span>Teaching and learning earth sciences (ES), notably geology, are conducted across various environments, encompassing the classroom, laboratory, and, most significantly, the field. The field trip is recognized as a key component of practical training and the overall success of the educational process in ES. This paper elucidates the findings of...

BACKGROUND The phenomenon of specialization among nursing categories often challenges the formation of a cohesive professional identity and may generate difficulties in professional adaptation. Essential to this identity’s development is establishing universally shared representations among paramedic students. This study explores socioprofessional...

Introduction: The 2013 reform of the nursing education system in Morocco, which introduced the License-Master-Doctorate framework and the establishment of Higher Institutes of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques (ISPITS), aimed to modernize higher education and enhance nursing practices. This study examines gender differences in learning stra...

L'Éducation au Développement Durable (EDD) devient essentielle face aux défis croissants du changement climatique, de l'inégalité sociale et de la durabilité des ressources. Au Maroc, l'intégration des principes de développement durable dans le curriculum des Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre (SVT) vise à préparer les jeunes à relever ces défis. Da...

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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has become an essential component of educational systems worldwide since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Morocco, committed to this global initiative, has taken significant steps to integrate sustainable development principles into its educational, social, and economic policies. Schools play a fu...

In recent years, the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) had a considerable impact on the teaching-learning process, both in terms of quantity and quality. Despite the appearance of many innovative teaching resources, video remains the preferred teaching tool for teachers and learners. Currently, this resource medium is...

Introduction: This study aims to adapt and assess the validity and reliability of the "Mes Outils de Travail Intellectuel" (My Intellectual Work Tools) scale for measuring learning strategies among Moroccan nursing students. Subjects and methods: The validation study was conducted in the Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco, utilizing the "Mes Outils d...

Background & Aim: Nursing staff shortages pose challenges for healthcare systems, worsened by student dropouts. This study explores the factors driving students to choose nursing to leave their programs and the relationship between reasons for choice and intentions to withdraw. Methods & Materials: A cross-sectional study was conducted at three pub...

The cell is a fundamental concept in biology. However, learners’ understanding of the cell often develops gradually and can be shaped by misconceptions. This study aimed to explore how Moroccan learners aged 12–16 conceive the cell, focusing on the evolution of their understanding across four educational levels: 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades. A sp...

span lang="EN-US">This study aimed to apprehend the scale’s role in education planning and performance. The national scale approaches tend to neglect local specificities. The relevance of the provincial and local scales is underlined in Draa-Tafilalet region (Morocco). By comparing the provincial data and indicators to study the education system's...

p style="text-align: justify;">In teaching, students' representations could constitute an obstacle to the construction of scientific knowledge and are often considered stable cognitive structures whose organization is sought to be inferred through questionnaires and interviews. This study aims at identifying and analyzing high school students’ repr...

In the Moroccan educational system, the secondary school curriculum places great emphasis on experimental science. Therefore, to improve student learning in these scientific subjects, it is necessary to analyze teaching practice and assess student learning to detect learning difficulties. In this context, our study seeks to determine the impact of...

Modeling is a fundamental tool in the teaching and learning processes of life and earth sciences. It serves as an investigative instrument that enables students to test hypotheses and solve scientific problems. This paper presents the findings of a survey conducted among 96 Moroccan life and earth sciences teachers teaching students at the primary,...

The preservation of biodiversity has become a major concern in contemporary society. It is essential to understand teachers’ representations of biodiversity to effectively guide educational efforts because of the significant role of education in raising awareness and promoting sustainable behavior. Through a survey of a sample of 118 teachers, we a...

The preservation of biodiversity has become a major concern in contemporary society. It is essential to understand teachers' representations of biodiversity to effectively guide educational efforts because of the significant role of education in raising awareness and promoting sustainable behavior. Through a survey of a sample of 118 teachers, we a...

The present research focuses on evaluating the knowledge and learning difficulties in metamorphism among future teachers. To address our issue, we selected a sample from students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Marrakech and employed a questionnaire as our investigative tool. The obtained results indicate that students face learning problems in...

p style="text-align: justify;">The teaching of experimental sciences in high school contributes to the development of a set of cognitive, methodological, and psychomotor skills among learners. Combining, both theoretical and practical aspects, it involves an important use of scientific experiments in the process of knowledge construction. With the...

span lang="EN-US">The study of learners’ conceptions of geological concepts has been the subject of several studies in the field of earth science didactics. The majority of these studies show that learners have misconceptions that can be an obstacle to learning Earth sciences. The present work aimed to identify the views of second year undergraduat...

The study apprehends the educational impacts of fieldwork in earth sciences teaching at high school. We assess its role in students’ skills improvement, based on a trip to Ait Idir (Ait Sedrate) in southeastern Morocco. The adopted approach consists of comparing skills acquired by a group of 26 high school students before and after the fieldwork. T...

The assessment of learning and the assessment for learning are considered as an integral part of learning process. They provide information to improve the educational instructions and to boost the students’ performances. It is a critical aspect of teaching and learning process and it requires teachers and learners to be prepared for the whole situa...

Despite its abundance in many regions of the planet, the marl’s use in practical issues engender many problems, in relation to its components’ quality, its physical and chemical characteristics and its valorization costs. The crumbling is among its major critical aspects that affect its engineering behavior, its handcraft and other socio-economic u...

—Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to develop models with human-like cognitive functions. Since its conception in the mid-50s, it has achieved big success in almost all areas and domains, starting from games to autonomous robotic surgery, and it is evolving rapidly. Indeed, AI-based machines pervade all domains and it is used for many purposes...

The strategic vision for the recent reform in Morocco included the diversification of teaching languages by teaching scientific subjects in French. This starts in pilot's class teaching scientific subjects in the French language. In this context, the language for teaching Life and Earth Sciences (LES) was changed from Arabic to French. This linguis...

The COVID-19 pandemic had dramatic impact on almost all aspects of human lives. Education sector was also affected. In almost all countries, schools and universities were shut down in an effort to halt the pandemic. In response to COVID-19, educators across the globe had to switch from classic to online teaching mode. Many challenges faced both tea...

Background: Physical education is undergoing a major transformation period that leads that school discipline to influence the lifestyles of young people to help them adopt behaviors conducive to their well health and well-being. Health education (HE) integrates with various intervention strategies in the field of health such as disease prevention...

The strategic vision for the recent reform in Morocco included the diversification of teaching languages by teaching scientific subjects in French. This starts in pilot’s class teaching scientific subjects in the French language. In this context, the language for teaching Life and Earth Sciences (LES) was changed from Arabic to French. This linguis...

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Context: Well-being in schools is often considered in relation to the educational and academic success of students. However, it is difficult, at present, not to consider the well-being of a student without an ecological and holistic perspective, in view of the interaction principles implemented in schools. This research aimed to identify the repre...

This exploratory study aims to verify whether the current use of scientific experiments in the Moroccan high-school science curriculum meets students' needs for experimental scientific learning. For that purpose, a sample chapter of the official science textbook was analysed in detail. The analysis was carried out using a didactic model of the Fren...

The discovery of details, knowledge of the structures and composition of biological and geological elements is a very important step in the understanding of the scientific phenomena programmed in the SVTs lessons. Thus, scientific evolution has made it possible to explore different levels of organisation at ever deeper levels, whether in biology or...

In this study, we are interested in teachers’ practices related to health education (HE) in school. In our survey, we used a questionnaire as an investigative tool with a sample of 300 teachers from three levels of education: Primary, middle and qualifying high schools. According to the teachers' statements, our study reveals that the majority prac...

The present study aims to see up to which point national specificities are found in the chapters of the textbooks related to human genetics, among five countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Inside the scientific community, the era of "all-genetic" is now replaced by a new paradigm : the epigenetics, focused on interaction between the genes and th...

Résumé La conception actuelle de l’Éducation à la Santé est au coeur de l’éducation de la personne et du citoyen (WHO, 1997, 1999), dans une perspective d’apprentissage de la liberté et du « vivre ensemble », plutôt que d’intégration de préceptes normatifs. L’Éducation à la Santé et à la Sexualité est directement conditionnée par les pratiques péda...

Ce travail analyse les réponses d’enseignants et futurs enseignants marocains du primaire et du secondaire (des sciences de la vie et d’arabe) à des questions ayant trait à l’Éducation à l’Environnement. Nous avons cherché à identifier, à l’aide d’un questionnaire, les divers types de valeurs qui structurent les conceptions de ces enseignants. Plus...

Ce travail analyse les réponses d’enseignants et futurs enseignants marocains du primaire et du secondaire (des sciences de la vie et d’arabe) à des questions ayant trait à l’Éducation à l’Environnement. Nous avons cherché à identifier, à l’aide d’un questionnaire, les divers types de valeurs qui structurent les conceptions de ces enseignants. Plus...

Cet article présente une méthode d’analyse comparative de manuels scolaires de quatre pays francophones (France, Liban, Maroc et Tunisie). L’approche méthodique utilisée est articulée à un cadre théorique d’apprentissage socioconstructiviste permettant d’analyser les processus de mise en texte des savoirs et des apprentissages scientifiques dans le...

The teaching of Earth Sciences (ES) is particularly delicate and seems to be problematic for both learners and Moroccan teachers for multiple reasons. Based on this observation, this study aims at identifying the difficulties related to the teaching of ES by exploring the points of view of the Moroccan teachers toward this field. As an investigativ...

Nous partons du modèle KVP (Clément 1998, 2004, 2006) qui propose d'analyser les conceptions en tant qu'interactions entre connaissances scientifiques (K), systèmes de valeurs (V) et pratiques sociales (P). Dans notre présente communication, nous étudions l'interaction entre certaines connaissances scientifiques relatives à l’évolution biologique e...

Teaching earth sciences is particularly delicate and apparently problematic, however, it's a domain for which the expectations of all the actors of the Moroccan pedagogic community should be strong and immense, especially if we take into consideration the wide surface of the country called "The Paradise of the Geologist". Morocco has rich immense g...

تحتل التجربة العلمية مكانا مهما في تدريس علوم الحياة و الارض، فباعتبارها أساسا اعادة احداث للظاهرة فإنها تمكن من تقريب الحقيقة للمتعلمين بوضعهم داخل اطار تجريبي استكشافي او توضيحي يفضي الى استخلاص مفاهيم علمية و بناء تعلمات مخطط لها. و للتجربة العلمية كذلك اهمية كبيرة في تطويرالتفكير و النهج التجريبيين لدى المتعلمين حتى نتمكن من تكوين جيل يتقن المه...

The scientific experiment has a crucial role in teaching natural sciences since it is basically are a demonstration of phenomena, it concretizes theoretical learning for students by putting them inside a discovery, experimental and explanatory context which leads to deduce concepts and to build planned learnings. What is more, scientific experiment...

Physical and Athletic Education (PAE) provide students with knowledge and skills and contributes to their Health Education (HE). Its effects are to be invested outside the school in daily or professional activities and in the practice of physical activities. Health Education is part of a variety of health intervention strategies such as disease pre...

The Moroccan university is increasingly experiencing a strong growth in the numbers of students. This process of massification alters the quality of learning, especially in open-access institutions where human resources and the capacity to host are increasingly limited. To improve the quality of learning, which first involves improving the quality...

Ce travail de recherche présente, premièrement une évaluation de l’évolution des curricula et programmes scolaires, abordant des thèmes ayant relation avec la tectonique des plaques ”concept intégrateur”, depuis 1967 jusqu’à aujourd’hui, afin d’identifier les approches avec lesquelles les programmes et manuels scolaires traitent ces thèmes au secon...

Food education is a component of health education which plays an important role in the development of citizenship and human resources of a country. Food is present in our daily life and in our curricula. Textbooks are one of the main components in implementing a curriculum and an important step in the didactic transposition. The textbooks editors's...

L'enseignement des sciences de la terre est particulièrement délicat et semble être problématique, cependant c'est un domaine par rapport auquel les attentes de tous les acteurs de la communauté pédagogique marocaine doivent être fortes et grandes, surtout quant à la grande superficie du pays, prénommé "paradis des géologues" . Le Maroc est riche e...

This research examined university students’ understanding about various concepts of population genetics and how they integrate that knowledge to explain the theorie of Evolution. A mixed study method was used to explore the students’ understanding of different factors that affect evolution. Data were collected by questionnaire and interview and wer...

Teaching earth sciences is particularly delicate and apparently problematic, however, it's a domain for which the expectations of all the actors of the Moroccan pedagogic community should be strong and immense, especially if we take into consideration the wide surface of the country called "The Paradise of the Geologist". Morocco has rich immense...

L’enseignement des sciences de la terre est particulièrement délicat et semble être problématique, cependant c’est un domaine par rapport auquel les attentes de tous les acteurs de la communauté pédagogique marocaine doivent être fortes et grandes, surtout quant à la grande superficie du pays, prénommé ”paradis des géologues” . Le Maroc est riche e...

The sexuality education remains a controversial issue in Morocco. Generally, in our society, the topics related to sexuality are social taboo that people avoid approaching by decency, especially with young people. The implementation of this education in school curricula meets obstacles socio-cultural. In this present work, we are interested in the...

For almost of scientists, the concept of Evolution occupies a central position in Biology. A few years ago, the topic of evolution was introduced in secondary programs. The teaching of this topic still controversial and causes many resistances in Morocco. In this study, Biology textbooks were analyzed using the methods of content analysis. Results...

The world environmental situation is likely to be further aggravated by the increasingly rapid extinction of species. This is likely to destabilize various ecosystems. This phenomenon has stimulated citizenship’s awareness to the extent that it is acknowledged that its study involves great educational value and should be present at school. Biodiver...

Food education is a component of health education which plays an important role in the development of citizenship and human resources of a country (Jourdan, 2010). School is a vital element in implementing some positive behavior and making students drop out other dangerous behaviors. Today educating students to healthy nutrition allows them to deve...

In recent decades, Genetic issues play a large role in health and public policy and new knowledge in this field continues to have significant implications for individuals and society. In spite of this increased exposure to genetics, recent studies of the general public’s genetics knowledge show a relatively low understanding of genetics concepts. E...

Developping scientific literacy of students, reconciling them with their cultural identity through the discovery of the technical and theoretical scientific achievements of Muslim civilization and of the manner that the rationality has been developed inside the cult science are all reasons that support the need for the introduction of the history o...

Comment le phénomène migratoire at -il été traité dans les manuels scolaires ? Cette réflexion d'ensemble argumentée est composée d'éclairages complémentaires venus de différents pays. Elle met en évidence des positionnements qui sont aussi bien le fruit d'histoires nationales, de traditions disciplinaires, que de liens entre le discours des manuel...

The several study about conception of different geological concepts has been much research in science education. All this research agrees that pupils come to class with the initial conception that could be an obstacle to the acquisition of these concepts. The initially aims of this work identify the Moroccan pupil's conceptions in second year of co...

In recent decades, Genetic issues play a large role in health and public policy and new knowledge in this field continues to have significant implications for individuals and society. In spite of this increased exposure to genetics, recent studies of the general public's genetics knowledge show a relatively low understanding of genetics concepts. E...

This study describes a lab in which students engaged in inquiry in classical genetics in order to develop a better understanding of the concepts and reasoning skills necessary to support knowledge claims about genetics. The simulation program called Drosofly can be used to foster about the conceptual knowledge used by university students when inves...

La géologie est considérée comme une discipline difficile et rejetée par les apprenants vu les obstacles qu’elle rencontre dans son enseignement. Malgré qu’elle tienne une place assez importante dans l’enseignement secondaire, en plus des différents valeurs scientifiques, pouvant participer à une bonne éducation à l’environnement et au développemen...

This research aims to identify the representations of pupils about diet and obesity in the outlook for of health education. We have tried to understand the dietary practices through their representations on feeding. Interpretation and discussion of the data could lead to the idea that the viewpoints and perceptions might be connected with social re...

The present study aims to see up to which point national specificities are found in the chapters of the textbooks related to human genetics, among five countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Inside the scientific community, the era of "all-genetic" is now replaced by a new paradigm : the epigenetics, focused on interaction between the genes and th...

Résumé Dans les programmes scolaires, l'éducation à l'environnement (EE) a été introduite dans la plupart des disciplines. Le concept Écosystème est abordé souvent dans les manuels scolaires. Dans cet article, nous présentons dans quelle mesure, les manuels scolaires partagent les perspectives de l'EE et contribuent efficacement à leur mise en oeuv...

RÉSUMÉ L'Éducation à l'Environnement (EE), facteur d'éducation à la citoyenneté est structurée par un système de valeurs. Les enseignants doivent être conscients de leurs propres valeurs qui ont un impact pour orienter leurs choix éducatifs et leurs prises de décision citoyennes. Dans cette communication, nous avons cherché à identifier, les divers...

L’Education à l’Environnement ne se limite pas à transmettre des connaissances scientifiques. Elle vise aussi à changer les attitudes des élèves, leurs pratiques citoyennes, et à développer chez eux certaines valeurs (citoyenneté, autonomie, responsabilité, tolérance et solidarité). Cette recherche présente une méthode d’analyse des manuels scolair...

Abstract This study was carried out within the European research project “Biology, Health and Environmental Education for Better Citizenship”. It is a comparative analysis of textbooks from eight Mediterranean countries which differ by their cultures, their socio‐economical levels, and their religions. This work is focused on the sensitive educatio...

The current conception of the Health Education is at the heart of education of the person and citizen (WHO 1997 and 1999), in a learning perspective of freedom and of « living together », rather that integration of normative precepts. The Health Education and Sexuality course is directly affected by school teaching practices, but also by the concep...

I manuali scolastici di biologia di otto paesi mediterranei affrontano il tema dell'evoluzione in modi molto differenti. In Algeria e in Libano, l'argomento non viene trattato o non più. In Tunisia, il tema è trattato nella classe terminale (ovvero nell'ultima classe del Liceo n.d.R.), ma senza un capitolo specifico sull'evoluzione umana. In Marocc...

The topic Evolution strongly differs among the school textbooks of biology in eight Mediterranean countries. In Algeria and Lebanon, it is not (or no more) present. In Morocco also, but it is just now reintroduced (nevertheless without the human origin). Poorly taught in Tunisia, the topic is more present in Cyprus and Malta, and even more in Itali...

The topic Evolution strongly differs among the school textbooks of biology in eight Mediterranean countries. In Algeria and Lebanon, it is not (or no more) present. In Morocco also, but it is just now reintroduced (nevertheless without the human origin). Poorly taught in Tunisia, the topic is more present in Cyprus and Malta, and even more in Itali...

Environmental Education allows an awakening of complexity, brittleness and acuity of the relationship between the Man and his environment. In this work, we study how is presented this type of relationship between the Man and the environment in the secondary textbooks of SVT during the 25 last years (4 textbooks). The results show that the relation...

Abstract: Conceptions are analyzed as being the emergences from interactions between three poles: scientific knowledge (K), values (V) and social practices (P). The teachers’ beliefs and values have a direct influence on the way of understanding and teaching a topic. These beliefs must be taken into account in the content and strategies of the teac...

Abstract: Concepts of genetics are often difficult to teach, specifically the central concept of gene. Even the scientists disagree when defining this concept. This paper investigates university students’ understanding about the gene and its functions. The results show the dominance of two conceptions of the gene: the Neoclassical model and the Men...

Ce travail présente une analyse comparative de manuels scolaires de trois pays méditerranéens (France, Liban et Maroc) en utilisant la même grille spécifique d'analyse. Nous travaillons principalement dans le domaine de la biologie et de la santé. Notre point de vue est résolument didactique, c'est à dire que nos analyses (et donc nos instruments)...

Haïti Chérie est une chanson patriotique qui résonne dans le cœur et la mémoire collective. Si elle n'est pas l'hymne national, elle n'en demeure pas moins un hymne patriotique, populaire et affectif pour le peuple Haïtien.Tremblements de terre, stupeurs du monde entier …. Haïti est un pays dont une des richesses est certainement le merveilleux sou...

Ce travail analyse les réponses d’enseignants et futurs enseignants marocains du primaire et du secondaire (des sciences de la vie et d’arabe) à des questions ayant trait à l’Éducation à l’Environnement. Nous avons cherché à identifier, à l’aide d’un questionnaire, les divers types de valeurs qui structurent les conceptions de ces enseignants. Plus...

L’objectif de ce travail consiste à analyser les conceptions d’enseignants et de futurs enseignants relatives à des questions vives relevant de la génétique et des déterminismes génétiques. Nous analyserons ces conceptions en tant qu’interactions entre des connaissances scientifiques, des systèmes de valeurs et des pratiques sociales (modèle KVP de...

Our study focused on two topics, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and their control using condoms. For this, we analysed and compared 42 school textbooks from 16 countries on the general topic "Human Reproduction and Sex Education" using a specific grid designed by the BIOHEAD-Citizen project. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was a...