RT Journal Article
T1 Understanding Pandemics Such as COVID-19 through the Lenses of the “One Health” Approach
A1 Puig Mauriz, Blanca
A1 Uskola, Araitz
K1 One Health
K1 COVID-19 pandemic
K1 Health controversies
K1 Environmental problems
K1 Zoonosis
K1 Teachers’ training
K1 Primary pre-service teachers
AB This study aims to contribute to research on systemic thinking in biology education, particularly how to best equip pre-service teachers to introduce health problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic using the “One Health” approach. We attempt to explore to what extent a group of pre-service teachers identify our lifestyle and relationships with nature as factors that contribute to the emergence of future pandemics. The research questions are as follows: (1) What dimensions of the One Health approach did the students identify as potential causes that can produce and prevent future pandemics such as the COVID-19 disease? (2) To what extent did the students show a systemic view aligned to the One Health approach? The participants were 43 pre-service elementary teachers working on a set of activities about the COVID-19 pandemic, in which they were asked about the potential causes of and ways to prevent future pandemics. Content analysis of individual written responses is applied for addressing the research questions, focusing on the dimensions of the One Health approach and the level of system thinking reflected. Most participants focused on the human dimension and a few mentioned environmental and animal dimensions, which points to the need to integrate the One Health notion into teacher training
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/28797
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/28797
LA eng
NO Sustainability 2021, 13, 13389. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313389
NO This research was supported by ESPIGA project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Education, and Universities, partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Grant code PGC2018-096581-B-C22
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026