Evolution Education Around the Globe
This edited book provides a global view on evolution education. It describes the state of evolution education in different countries that are representative of geographical regions around the globe such as Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North A
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Evolution Education Around the Globe
Evolution Education Around the Globe
Hasan Deniz Lisa A. Borgerding •
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Evolution Education Around the Globe
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Editors Hasan Deniz College of Education University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV USA
Lisa A. Borgerding College of Education, Health, and Human Services Kent State University Kent, OH USA
ISBN 978-3-319-90938-7 ISBN 978-3-319-90939-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90939-4
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Preface
Is the teaching of evolution only controversial in a few places or for members of a few conservative religious sects? Our travels and communication with our evolution education research colleagues around the world made us anecdotally answer no to this question, but we realized that we lacked a systematic way of making such comparative assertions. Evolution Education Around the Globe begins to answer this question and provides what we hope is an internationally informed conversation about evolution education. The origin of this book goes back to our years together at Indiana University Science Education Doctoral Program. During our time together in the doctoral program, we realized our common interest in evolution education and evolution education research. We collaborated over several research projects exploring evolution acceptance and understanding among Turkish and American preservice biology teachers. Our manuscripts from these projects appeared in Journal of Research in Science Teaching and Reports of the National Cen
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