The experience of “A Primer in Biodiversity Issues”. Promoting an autonomous learning based on motivation in undergraduate students of Teacher Training

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This work presents the experience of “A primer in Biodiversity Issues”, an optional subject in 3^rd course of the Degree in Teacher Training of the E.U. de Educación de Soria (Uva). The subject was programmed to promote autonomous learning based on motivation. Students showed a natural bent towards Nature, but not a strong naturalistic formation, for which it was required to provide them with grounding contents. Afterwards, the teaching-learning process was guided by their natural preferences, since they freely decided the topics on which developing tasks, commonly educational projects or lectures.