Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution - Hardcover

 
9780199730421: Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199730423 ISBN 13: 9780199730421
Verlag: OUP US, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Evolution Challenges goes beyond the science versus religion debate 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karl S. Rosengren is a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. He has published widely in the fields of cognitive and motor development. In his current research he examines cultural influences in the development of causal reasoning and how children acquire different types of beliefs. He is a fellow of APS.

Sarah K. Brem is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. A cognitive scientist, her research focuses on public use and understanding of scientific and technical information. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Career Award.

E. Margaret Evans is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan. Her research, funded by NSF and the Spencer Foundation, focuses on the cognitive and cultural factors influencing the developmental of scientific and religious concepts.

Gale M. Sinatra is a Professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. She has served as an editor of Educational Psychologist and the Vice President of AERA's Division C, Learning and Instruction. She is a fellow of APA and AERA. Her research focuses on the role of emotions and motivation in reasoning about socio-scientific issues.

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Verlag
OUP US
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199730423
ISBN 13 
9780199730421
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
488
Herausgeber
Rosengren Karl S., Brem Sarah K., Evans E. Margaret
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