Evolution challenges : integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution / edited by Karl S. Rosengren ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosengren, Karl Sven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching.

Evolution (Biology).

Evolution (Biology)--Social aspects.

Education--Research.

Education.

Effective teaching.

Cognitive learning.

Educational psychology.

Physical Description:

xxi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Section I: Folk theories, conceptual and perceptual constraints. "Two-thousand years of stasis": how psychological essentialism impedes evolutionary understanding / Susan A. Gelman and Marjorie Rhodes

Trees, fish, and other fictions: folk biological thought and its implications for understanding evolutionary biology / John D. Coley and Tara M. Muratore

Cognitive constraints on the understanding and acceptance of evolution / Andrew Shtulman and Prassede Calabi

Teleological minds: how natural intuitions about agency and purpose influence learning about evolution / Deborah Kelemen

The promise and challenges of introducing tree thinking into evolution education / Kefyn M. Catley, Laura R. Novick, and Daniel J. Funk

Narrative spaces in the representation and understanding of evolution / Camillia Matuk and David Uttal

Misunderstanding emergent causal mechanism in natural selection / Michelene T. H. Chi, Agnieszka Kosminska Kristensen, and Rod D. Roscoe

Encountering counterintuitive ideas: constructing a developmental learning progression for evolution understanding / E. Margaret Evans, Karl S. Rosengren, Jonathan D. Lane, and Kristin L. S. Price

Commentary on section I: constrained learning: reframing the problem of evolution understanding and implications for science education / Karl S. Rosengren and E. Margaret Evans

Section IIA: Epistemological issues. Model-based instruction: fostering change in evolutionary conceptions and in epistemic practices / Clark A. Chinn and Luke A. Buckland

Why don't Americans accept evolution as much as people in peer nations do? A theory (reinforced theistic manifest destiny) and some pertinent evidence / Michael Andrew Ranney

Heuristics and the counterintuitive in science and religion / Ryan D. Tweney

Section IIB: Implementing education in evolution: formal education. Challenges and opportunities for teaching and designing effective K-12 evolution curricula / Paul M. Beardsley, Mark V. Bloom, and Sarah B. Wise

Why don't undergraduates really "get" evolution? What can faculty do? / Craig E. Nelson

An intentional approach to teaching evolution: making students aware of the factors influencing learning of microevolution and macroevolution / Sherry A. Southerland and Louis S. Nadelson

Section IIC: Implementing education in evolution: informal education. Pattern and process: natural history museum exhibits on evolution / Judy Diamond and Patrick Kociolek

Walking whales and singing flies: an evolution exhibit and assessment of its impact / Judy Diamond, E. Margaret Evans, and Amy N. Spiegel

Making connections: evolution and the nature and process of science / Anna Thanukos and Judy Scotchmoor

Commentary on Section II: bringing multiple levels of analysis to bear on evolution teaching and learning / Sarah K. Brem and Gale M. Sinatra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199730421

0199730423

OCLC:

759491728