TY - JOUR
AU - Allen, William
AB - Eye on Education WILLIAM ALLEN lants fuel life on Earth by tapping the and the (plant-dependent) human popu- predictor of a student’s later interest in Psun’s energy. But if plants are the lation continues to climb. plants. main mediators between the physical and What causes plant blindness? Some To help the nation overcome plant biological worlds, why do most people researchers have long concluded that blindness, Wandersee and Schussler have tend to appreciate animals so much more various social and educational biases taken a self-described “activist” approach than plants? are responsible. For example, “zoo- to appeal to teachers and students. They That question is at the center of a new chauvinistic” educators at all levels tend developed a classroom poster that says campaign whose rallying cry is “Prevent to use animal examples to teach basic “Prevent Plant Blindness” as part of a na- Plant Blindness.” The aim of the cam- biological concepts, whether in the tional campaign to raise awareness. The paign is to liberate students from the classroom, lab, or field. 20-by-30-inch poster shows a pair of red- many traps that lead to a lack of apprecia- While not discounting those biases, tinted glasses hanging over a tree-lined 
TI - Plant Blindness
JO - BioScience
DO - 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0926:PB]2.0.CO;2
DA - 2003-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/plant-blindness-d089roV6SF
SP - 926
EP - 926
VL - 53
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -