Richard Simons
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Joined: Oct. 2006
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When I was teaching biology to adults, a major problem with the textbooks was that they tried to be all-inclusive. A 700 or 1000 page book is very outfacing for people who are just starting on a subject. When I skipped sections, the better students became very worried that they were getting a watered-down course.
I had no control over the selection of the texts, and a recurring problem was that all of them were organised using the 5-kingdom system of classification. They made reference to endosymbiosis and modern views on the taxonomic relationships among the major groups, then proceded to ignore this in the rest of the book. The result was very confusing for the students.
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