How Should Creationism and Intelligent Design Be Dealt with in the Classroom?

Autor/in	Reiss, Michael J.
Titel	How Should Creationism and Intelligent Design Be Dealt with in the Classroom?
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45 (2011) 3, S.399-415 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00790.x
Schlagwörter	Controversial Issues (Course Content); Creationism; Religious Education; Evolution; World Views; Films; Science Instruction; Citizenship Education; Elementary Education; Epistemology; Educational Philosophy; Educational Trends; Educational Environment; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; Discourse Analysis; State Church Separation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Schöpfungstheologie; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; World view; Weltanschauung; Film; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Elementarunterricht; Erkenntnistheorie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsentwicklung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politics of education; Diskursanalyse; Kirche-Staat-Beziehung
Abstract	Until recently, little attention has been paid in the school classroom to creationism and almost none to intelligent design. However, creationism and possibly intelligent design appear to be on the increase and there are indications that there are more countries in which schools are becoming battle-grounds over them. I begin by examining whether creationism and intelligent design are controversial issues, drawing on Robert Dearden's epistemic criterion of the controversial and more recent responses to and defences of this. I then examine whether the notion of "worldviews" in the context of creationism is a useful one by considering the film March of the Penguins. I conclude that the "worldviews" perspective on creationism is useful for two reasons: first it indicates the difficulty of using the criterion of reason to decide whether an issue is controversial or not; secondly, it suggests that standard ways of addressing the diversity of student views in a science classroom may be inadequate. I close by examining the implications of this view for teaching in science lessons and elsewhere, for example in religious education lessons and citizenship lessons and at primary level where subject divisions cannot be made in so clear-cut a manner. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10