Immunity and vaccine models in secondary education textbooks

Abstract

This paper studies the immunity and vaccine model presented by secondary education textbooks, which are considered a link between the curriculum and teaching practice. The objective of our study was to explore what contents are included in these models and how they are articulated. At the same time, a procedure based on the elaboration of concept maps is proposed to achieve this goal. In general, the textbook models in our study corpus present cellular processes of immunity focused on the individual rather than the collective. The conclusions of this research involve a partial diagnosis of how the teaching of immunology is approached in the classroom to design a model that allows the implementation of strategies and resources that involve students in the modelling of immunity.