进化教育中的减少冲突的做法与进化接受度的增加有关,在一项大型自然主义研究中发现
Rahmi Qurota Aini1, K Supriya2, Hayley Dunlop3
1Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States of America.
PloS one
|December 4, 2024
概括
在生物学教育中减少冲突的做法可以增加学生对进化论的接受. 强调宗教与进化相容有助于基督教学生,同时强调个人选择有利于所有学生.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学 进化生物学
- 科学教育科学教育教育.
背景情况:
- 许多大学生很难接受关键的进化概念,特别是人类进化.
- 对进化论的接受度较低在生物学教育中带来了挑战.
- 建议减少被认为是宗教-进化冲突的做法,以提高接受度.
研究的目的:
- 调查大学生在进化教育中的减少冲突实践经验与他们接受人类进化的关系.
- 评估由教练领导的兼容性和自主性的影响,强调对进化接受.
主要方法:
- 调查了14个州55个课程的6719名大学生物学学生.
- 测量学生的经验与教师提供的宗教进化兼容性的例子.
- 测量学生与教师的经验,强调个人在接受进化过程中的自主权.
- 评估学生在教学前后对人类进化论的接受程度.
主要成果:
- 非常虔诚的基督教学生表现出了对进化论的接受度的增加,以及他们认为的宗教与进化论的兼容性做法.
- 所有宗教和非宗教背景的学生在强调自主实践时,在教学后表现出更大的人类进化接受.
- 感知到的兼容性和自主性做法与增加的进化接受度有关.
结论:
- 整合宗教进化兼容性示例积极影响基督教学生对进化的看法.
- 强调学生在接受进化论方面的自主性对更广泛的学生来说是有益的.
- 减少冲突的教学策略可以提高进化论在大学生物学课程中的接受程度.
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