Anti-Intellectualism and Anti-Evolutionism: Lessons from Hofstadter

Autor/in	Branch, Glenn
Titel	Anti-Intellectualism and Anti-Evolutionism: Lessons from Hofstadter
Quelle	In: Phi Delta Kappan, 101 (2020) 7, S.22-27 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-7217
DOI	10.1177/0031721720917525
Schlagwörter	Anti Intellectualism; Evolution; Creationism; Science Instruction; Academic Freedom; Religious Factors; Public Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schöpfungstheologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Akademische Freiheit; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	The forces of anti-intellectualism in American life, as described by Richard Hofstadter, have been especially prominent in the battle against the teaching of evolution. Glenn Branch discusses the different aspects of anti-intellectualism that are at the root of objections to evolution and explains how creation science, which had a transparently religious motivation, eventually gave way to intelligent design, which was less explicit in its religious aims. In the face of constitutional challenges, these modes of anti-evolutionism have been largely replaced by discourse that misrepresents evolution as "just a theory" and that misleadingly portrays miseducation about evolution as a matter of intellectual freedom. Branch then suggests how, by understanding the anti-intellectual roots of objections to evolution, science educators might teach evolution more effectively. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01