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Author(s): Karl S. Rosengren, Sarah K. Brem, E. Margaret Evans, Gale M. Sinatra
ISBN(s): 9780199730421, 0199730423
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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10: 0199730423 
ISBN 13: 9780199730421
Author: Karl S Rosengren, Sarah K Brem, E Margaret Evans, Gale M Sinatra

A recent poll revealed that one in four Americans believe in both creationism and evolution, while another 41% believe that creationism is true and evolution is false. A minority (only 13%) believe only in evolution. Given the widespread resistance to the idea that humans and other animals have evolved and given the attention to the ongoing debate of what should be taught in public schools, issues related to the teaching and learning of evolution are quite timely. Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution goes beyond the science versus religion dispute to ask why evolution is so often rejected as a legitimate scientific fact, focusing on a wide range of cognitive, socio-cultural, and motivational factors that make concepts such as evolution difficult to grasp. The volume brings together researchers with diverse backgrounds in cognitive development and education to examine children’s and adults’ thinking, learning, and motivation, and how aspects of representational and symbolic knowledge influence learning about evolution. The book is organized around three main challenges inherent in teaching and learning evolutionary concepts: folk theories and conceptual biases, motivational and epistemological biases, and educational aspects in both formal and informal settings. Commentaries across the three main themes tie the book together thematically, and contributors provide ideas for future research and methods for improving the manner in which evolutionary concepts are conveyed in the classroom and in informal learning experiences. Evolution Challenges is a unique text that extends far beyond the traditional evolution debate and is an invaluable resource to researchers in cognitive development, science education and the philosophy of science, science teachers, and exhibit and curriculum developers.

Evolution Challenges Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution 1st Table of contents:

SECTION I: Folk Theories, Conceptual and Perceptual Constraints
1. “Two-Thousand Years of Stasis”: How Psychological Essentialism Impedes Evolutionary Understan
2. Trees, Fish, and Other Fictions: Folk Biological Thought and Its Implications for Understanding E
3. Cognitive Constraints on the Understanding and Acceptance of Evolution
4. Teleological Minds: How Natural Intuitions about Agency and Purpose Influence Learning about Evol
5. The Promise and Challenges of Introducing Tree Thinking into Evolution Education
6. Narrative Spaces in the Representation and Understanding of Evolution
7. Misunderstanding Emergent Causal Mechanism in Natural Selection
8. Encountering Counterintuitive Ideas: Constructing a Developmental Learning Progression for Evolut
9. Commentary on Section I: Constrained Learning: Reframing the Problem of Evolution Understanding a
SECTION IIA: Epistemological Issues
10. Model-Based Instruction: Fostering Change in Evolutionary Conceptions and in Epistemic Practices
11. Why Don’t Americans Accept Evolution as Much as People in Peer Nations Do? A Theory (Reinforce
12. Heuristics and the Counterintuitive in Science and Religion
SECTION IIB: Implementing Education in Evolution: Formal Education
13. Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Designing Effective K–12 Evolution Curricula
14. Why Don’t Undergraduates Really “Get” Evolution? What Can Faculty Do?
15. An Intentional Approach to Teaching Evolution: Making Students Aware of the Factors Influencing
SECTION IIC: Implementing Education in Evolution: Informal Education
16. Pattern and Process: Natural History Museum Exhibits on Evolution
17. Walking Whales and Singing Flies: An Evolution Exhibit and Assessment of Its Impact
18. Making Connections: Evolution and the Nature and Process of Science
19. Commentary on Section II: Bringing Multiple Levels of Analysis to Bear on Evolution Teaching and

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