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Author Hart, Lynette A.

Title Why dissection? [electronic resource] : animal use in education / Lynette A. Hart, Mary W. Wood, and Benjamin L. Hart.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.

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Description xii, 225 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index.
Contents Today's biology classroom crisis -- Early history of dissection: controversy and advances -- Controversy in the development of science education and dissection -- The context for dissection: educational testing -- National versus state educational standards: whither dissection? -- Legislation and regulations related to using animals and dissection in teaching -- Empowering teachers to find substitutes for dissection -- Students and the culture of dissection -- The animals used in teaching -- New teaching resources in the computer age -- Locating teaching resources and research literature on alternatives.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Biology -- Study and teaching.
Laboratory animals.
Dissection.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wood, Mary W.
Hart, Benjamin L.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780313323904 (alk. paper)
0313323909 (alk. paper)

 
    
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