On the Relationship Between Belief and Acceptance of Evolution as Goals of Evolution Education

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• 作者：Mike U. Smith ; Harvey Siegel
• 刊名：Science Education
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：5-6
• 页码：473-496
• 全文大小：566 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Mathematics Education
  Philosophy of Science
  History
  Interdisciplinary Studies
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1901
• 卷排序：25

文摘

The issue of the proper goals of science education and science teacher education have been a focus of the science education and philosophy of science communities in recent years. More particularly, the issue of whether belief/acceptance of evolution and/or understanding are the appropriate goals for evolution educators and the issue of the precise nature of the distinctions among the terms knowledge, understanding, belief, and acceptance have received increasing attention in the 12 years since we first published our views on these subjects. During that time, our own views about these issues have evolved, and this article presents a reconsideration of both these distinctions and the propriety of these goals. In particular, the present paper continues our discussion of the nature of belief as it relates to science education, and more specifically to evolution education. We extend that work to consider the import of the distinction between belief and acceptance.