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Evolution and Religion in American Education - An Ethnography (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Evolution and Religion in American Education - An Ethnography (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 4
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Evolution and Religion in American Education shines a light into
one of America's dark educational corners, exposing the regressive
pedagogy that can invade science classrooms when school boards and
state overseers take their eyes off the ball. It sets out to
examine the development of college students' attitudes towards
biological evolution through their lives. The fascinating insights
provided by interviewing students about their world views adds up
to a compelling case for additional scrutiny of the way young
people's educational experiences unfold as they consider-and indeed
in some cases reject-one of science's strongest and most cogent
theoretical constructs. Inevitably, open discussion and
consideration of the theory of evolution can chip away at the
mental framework constructed by Creationists, eroding the
foundations of their faith. The conceptual battleground is so
fraught with logical challenges to Creationist dogma that in a
number of cases students' exposure to such dangerous ideas is
actively prevented. This book provides a detailed map of this
astonishing struggle in today's America-a struggle many had thought
was done and dusted with the onset of the Enlightenment.
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