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This chapter introduces preliminary results of a study dedicated to French secondary biology teachers’ educational resource usage with special emphasis on images. Images play an important role in biology teaching, as they are omnipresent in textbooks as well as in lecture slides and assist various teaching activities, such as document analysis. How do biology teachers identify and select images? Which types of images (scientific, everyday life) are selected? For which purposes are they used? In what kind of teaching strategies are images called? This chapter offers an overview of the kind of analysis that can be done on SVT teachers’ slideshows and what insights can be gained in this manner not only into teachers’ ways of teaching (including pedagogical components) but also into their interests and inner motives. As an exemplary case study, analysis of a slideshow designed to support a biodiversity lecture by a French SVT teacher combined with semi-structured interviews are exposed in detail to show which types of useful insights into the strategies of image selection can be gained. The chapter concludes by reflecting on chances and challenges connected to the method and indicating further research directions.
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Roux-Goupille, C. (2021). Images as Resources in Biological Science Teaching. In: Bagoly-Simó, P., Sikorová, Z. (eds) Textbooks and Educational Media: Perspectives from Subject Education. IARTEM 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80346-9_18
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