Advancing in the construction of the nutrition model through contextualization in the phenomenon
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Rev_Eureka_ensen_divulg_cienc.2025.v22.i2.2602Info
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- Araitz Uskola Ibarluzea (ES) Departamento Didáctica de la Matemática y de las Ciencias experimentales y sociales. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0621-3085
- Teresa Zamalloa Echevarría (ES) Departamento Didáctica de la Matemática y de las Ciencias experimentales y sociales. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8050-496X
- Ainara Achurra Ahumada (ES) Departamento Didáctica de la Matemática y de las Ciencias experimentales y sociales. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8055-6057
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The human nutrition model is one of the most relevant models in Biology, but its understanding presents challenges. For this reason, educators recommend that students engage in modeling practices that include the representation of the model. It has been shown that the level at which a model is expressed is influenced by the context in which that representation is framed. However, it has not yet been thoroughly investigated how performing contextualized representations throughout a modeling sequence contributes to model construction. This study examines what model of human nutrition future early childhood education teachers (FTs) develop when they participate in a modeling sequence that includes creating a phenomenon-contextualized physical model. The written explanations and final drawings of 47 FTs (Cohort 2) were compared with those of 32 FTs (Cohort 1) who had participated in the same sequence but without insisting on the contextualization of the physical models. In addition, the study analyzed how FTs in Cohort 2 incorporated the phenomenon when explaining their physical models. The FTs from Cohort 2 showed a more developed final nutrition model than those from Cohort 1. That is, placing the physical models in a phenomenon-oriented context facilitated a more complete final representation of the model. The phenomenon was primarily introduced during intermediate stages of the explanations, serving as a link between different processes and giving meaning to the whole explanation.
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