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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Teaching evolution"”.
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Teaching Evolution: A Heuristic Study of Personal and Cultural Dissonance
<p>Darwinian evolution is a robustly supported scientific theory. Yet creationists continue to challenge its teaching in American public schools. Biology teachers in all 50 states are responsible for teaching science content standards that include evolution. As products of their backgrounds and …
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Case Studies in Teaching Evolution: The Intersection of Dilemmas in Practice
… recent science education reform documents citing evolution as a core concept to be taught in grades K-12, research shows problems with how it is currently taught. Evolution is often avoided, teachers minimize its importance within biology, infuse misconceptions, and/or interject non-scientific …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in their science curriculum. Others face the challenge and deliver solid scientific instruction of evolutionary theory despite the conflicts …
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Tempo geológico e o ensino de Biologia: investigando uma proposta de Sequência Didática baseada em Design Research.
Basic concept in Geoscience, decisive for the evolution of scientific thinking and paradigm shift that culminated in the acceptance that the history of humanity is much more recent than the history of the planet, Geological Time is fundamental for teaching Evolution and for perception of emerging …