BIOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM СOLLECTION VALUE OF I. HORBACHEVSKY TERNOPIL STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOR LEARNING ABOUT WILDLIFE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31861/biosystems2018.01.029Keywords:
Biology Department, Educational Museum, Ternopil State Medical University, medical parasitologyAbstract
The relationship between higher education and material collections of museums is deeply historic. Natural objects and their images are at the top of leading places among great variety of wildlife around us. That is the reason why natural and biological educational museums occupy a certain place in the educational process. Museum exhibition design in the Medical Biology department is developed taking into account the curriculum specific topics. Environmental and systematic exhibition themes highlight biodiversity and environmental issues, involving students directly in learning biological objects creates powerful hands-on learning opportunities that can foster a fascination with diversity and the complexity of biological interactions. In this study, we were interested in the effect of our exhibition on visitor pupils and students learning in Biology Department Museum. We were also interested in how elements of verbal engagement at the exhibition might contribute to learning outcomes of biology. We conducted series of interviews. Students and pupils participated in the study of exhibition effect on visitor learning in Biology Department Museum. The study shows that the quantity of excursions in Educational-Biological Museum from 2014 to 2017 years is increased. Analyses of pupil’s interviews had shown that exhibitions are of essential importance while learning the structure of multicellular organisms and the human role in changing of natural ecosystems. Students interviews show that exhibitions are of essential importance during practical medical parasitology classes as they demonstrate animal life and parasitic diseases signs. Students were particularly positive about note schemes with clinical manifestations and laboratory diagnosis methods of parasitic diseases. As a result students' understanding of
parasites life cycles, infestation ways and knowledge of invasive diseases prevention is increasing. Also, our research indicates an increasing understanding of the macroevolutionary concepts, microevolutionary processes as well. Educational-Biological Museum of Biology Department in Ternopil Medical University affords an opportunity to form a knowledge system concerning the laws of nature, and to create a clinical thinking of the future medical specialists.
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