alleryJanabai's plant knowledge suggests rural children
Alack useful plant knowledge
Bbring rich everyday knowledge
Cshould avoid farm examples
Dneed only abstract terms
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. bring rich everyday knowledge
1. Janabai uses plants for food, medicine, fuel and dyes.
2. She can identify about a hundred plants, more than her biology teacher.
3. So deprived-background labels are wrong, and teaching should link school biology to such experience.
_Source: NCERT, Position Paper of the National Focus Group on Teaching of Science, What Biology do students know?_
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