Defending Evolution in the Classroom: A Guide to the Creation/evolution Controversy

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2001 - 261 pagina's
Defending Evolution in the Classroom is a novel handbook that explains why so many secondary and college students reject evolution and are antagonistic toward its teaching. Defending Evolution in the Classroom helps science instructors better understand their student's Creationist beliefs and the bearing those beliefs have on learning evolution.
 

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FOREWORD by Stephen Jay Gould
1
Creationists Declare War
13
Creationist Students Culture
37
Nonreligious Reasons
83
Why Should Students Learn Evolution?
103
Religion
139
Questions from Instructors
165
Methods for Teaching Evolution
179
APPENDIX A Organizations That Support Evolution
201
National Center for Science Education
207
The Teaching
219
APPENDIX F Evolution Education Research Centre
225
References
237
Index
247
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Brian J. Alters, Ph.D. lead author, holds appointments internationally at McGill University, Montreal, where he was recently named William Dawson Scholar, and at Harvard University, Cambridge. Dr. Alters is Director of the newly created Evolution Education Research Centre.

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