Practices and Perspectives of College Instructors on Addressing Religious Beliefs When Teaching Evolution.
Practices and Perspectives of College Instructors on Addressing Religious Beliefs When Teaching Evolution.
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10.1187/cbe.15-11-0243
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2016
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Brownell SE
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Barnes ME;Brownell SE
从对32位教授进化论的大学教师的采访中，我们发现大多数人在教授进化论时并不认为学生接受进化论是一个目标。此外，教师们列举了一些障碍，以解决他们的课堂上宗教和进化之间的冲突。进化论是生物学的一个核心概念，然而许多生物学大学生因为他们的宗教信仰而不接受进化论。然而，我们目前不知道教师如何看待他们在帮助学生接受进化论方面的作用，或者他们在教授进化论时如何解决宗教与进化论之间的冲突。本研究探讨教师的做法和信念，以减轻学生的宗教和进化之间的冲突感知。对32名教师的采访显示，许多教师不相信帮助学生接受进化论是他们的目标，大多数教师不解决宗教和进化论之间的冲突。教师们列举了许多在课堂上讨论进化论背景下的宗教的障碍，最值得注意的是教师们自己的个人信仰，即宗教和进化论可能是不相容的。这些数据是探索性的，旨在激发一系列关于我们作为大学生物教师如何教授进化论的问题。
From 32 interviews with college instructors who teach evolution, we found that the majority do not consider student acceptance of evolution as a goal when they teach evolution. Further, instructors cited a number of barriers to addressing the perceived conflict between religion and evolution in their classrooms. 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.