Symposium - Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science

纽约科学院将举办一个为期两天的研讨会，题为“教学进化与科学的本质”。这次会议将为顶尖科学家、高中科学教师、教授科学课程或培训未来科学教师的大学教师以及负责教育政策的州和地方官员之间的交流、联网和未来合作提供前所未有的机会。会议将讨论科学探究的本质，作为现代生物学基础的进化论教学，目前在这项事业中遇到的困难，以及可以提供支持以应对当前对进化论的挑战的科学基础。本次研讨会旨在讨论进化科学的知识现状，并解决进化论反对者对科学教育提出的挑战。主题包括：进化的证据是什么？理解进化如何在理解现代生物学中发挥作用？我们的科学教育者和那些创造科学课程的人的责任是什么？会议将在纽约举行。会议结束后，将建立网站，为全国各地的科学教师提供信息，继续支持科学教育。

The New York Academy of Sciences will present a two-day symposium, Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science. This gathering will provide an unprecedented opportunity for exchange, networking, and future collaborations among leading scientists, high school science teachers, college faculty who teach science classes or train future science teachers, and state and local officials who are responsible for education policy. The conference will address the nature of scientific inquiry, the teaching of evolution as fundamental to modern biology, the difficulties currently encountered in this enterprise, and the scientific underpinnings that could provide support to counter the current challenges to evolutionary theory. This symposium was conceived as a means to discuss the state of knowledge in evolutionary science and to address the challenges posed by challengers of evolutionary theory to science education. Topics include: What is the evidence for evolution? How does understanding evolution play a role in comprehending modern biology? What are the responsibilities of our science educators and those who create scientific curricula?The conference will take place in New York. After the conference web sites will be established to provide information for science teachers around the country and to continue to support science education.