Practices and Perspectives of College Instructors on Addressing Religious Beliefs When Teaching Evolution

Autor/inn/en	Barnes, M. Elizabeth; Brownell, Sara E.
Titel	Practices and Perspectives of College Instructors on Addressing Religious Beliefs When Teaching Evolution
Quelle	In: CBE - Life Sciences Education, 15 (2016) 1, Artikel 18 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1931-7913
DOI	10.1187/cbe.15-11-0243
Schlagwörter	Religion; Beliefs; Religious Factors; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Science Instruction; Evolution; Higher Education; Biology; Semi Structured Interviews; Community Colleges; Two Year Colleges; College Science; Science Education; Creationism; Two Year College Students; Undergraduate Students; Surveys; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Biologie; Community college; Community College; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Schöpfungstheologie; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	Evolution is a core concept of biology, and yet many college biology students do not accept evolution because of their religious beliefs. However, we do not currently know how instructors perceive their role in helping students accept evolution or how they address the perceived conflict between religion and evolution when they teach evolution. This study explores instructor practices and beliefs related to mitigating students' perceived conflict between religion and evolution. Interviews with 32 instructors revealed that many instructors do not believe it is their goal to help students accept evolution and that most instructors do not address the perceived conflict between religion and evolution. Instructors cited many barriers to discussing religion in the context of evolution in their classes, most notably the instructors' own personal beliefs that religion and evolution may be incompatible. These data are exploratory and are intended to stimulate a series of questions about how we as college biology instructors teach evolution. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01