The lingering impact of the scopes trial on high school biology textbooks.

Autor/inn/en	Moore, Randy; Moore, Randy
Titel	The lingering impact of the scopes trial on high school biology textbooks.
Quelle	Aus: Provenzo, Eugene F. (Hrsg.): The textbook as discourse. London u.a.; New York: Routledge (2011) S. 92-105 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 104-105
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-0-203-83602-6; 978-0-415-88646-8; 978-0-415-88647-5
DOI	10.4324/9780203836026
Schlagwörter	Historische Bildungsforschung; High School; Schulbuch; Biologieunterricht; Evolutionstheorie; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	Randy Moore places the content of biology textbooks within an historical context. He credits the shift, after World War I, toward increased religious faith and a mythical sense of prewar bliss for the origin of the fundamentalist campaign targeting textbooks. After Scopes was convicted in 1925 of teaching Evolution in his high school biology class, textbook publishers and school boards across the country became reluctant to deal with Darwinian Theory in biology texts. By 1929, evolutionary theory had been largely purged from high school biology textbooks. When the theory of evolution slowly began to reappear, it was usually included as an afterthought (often at the end of the book, where it still shows up today, so that it could be easily omitted). The launch of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in 1957 led to the passage of the National Defense Education Act the following year, which mandated the National Science Foundation to develop state-of-the-art science textbooks, which in the case of biology emphasized the Theory of Evolution. Shifting trends in legislation and national feeling have led, more recently, anti-evolutionists to adopt other tactics to have their views represented in biology textbooks.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2013/1