Research Catalog

Title

Evolution challenges : integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution / edited by Karl S. Rosengren ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rosengren, Karl Sven

Description

xxi, 464 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution

Subject

• Evolution (Biology) > Study and teaching
• Evolution (Biology) > Social aspects
• Education > Research
• Effective teaching
• Cognitive learning
• Educational psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Section I: Folk theories, conceptual and perceptual constraints. "Two-thousand years of stasis" : how psychological essentialism impedes evolutionary understanding / Susan A. Gelman and Marjorie Rhodes ; Trees, fish, and other fictions : folk biological thought and its implications for understanding evolutionary biology / John D. Coley and Tara M. Muratore ; Cognitive constraints on the understanding and acceptance of evolution / Andrew Shtulman and Prassede Calabi ; Teleological minds : how natural intuitions about agency and purpose influence learning about evolution / Deborah Kelemen ; The promise and challenges of introducing tree thinking into evolution education / Kefyn M. Catley, Laura R. Novick, and Daniel J. Funk ; Narrative spaces in the representation and understanding of evolution / Camillia Matuk and David Uttal ; Misunderstanding emergent causal mechanism in natural selection / Michelene T.H. Chi, Agnieszka Kosminska Kristensen, and Rod D. Roscoe ; Encountering counterintuitive ideas : constructing a developmental learning progression for evolution understanding / E. Margaret Evans, Karl S. Rosengren, Jonathan D. Lane, and Kristin L.S. Price ; Commentary on section I : constrained learning : reframing the problem of evolution understanding and implications for science education / Karl S. Rosengren and E. Margaret Evans -- Section IIA: Epistemological issues. Model-based instruction : fostering change in evolutionary conceptions and in epistemic practices / Clark A. Chinn and Luke A. Buckland ; Why don't Americans accept evolution as much as people in peer nations do? A theory (reinforced theistic manifest destiny) and some pertinent evidence / Michael Andrew Ranney ; Heuristics and the counterintuitive in science and religion / Ryan D. Tweney -- Section IIB: Implementing education in evolution : formal education. Challenges and opportunities for teaching and designing effective K-12 evolution curricula / Paul M. Beardsley, Mark V. Bloom, and Sarah B. Wise ; Why don't undergraduates really "get" evolution? What can faculty do? / Craig E. Nelson ; An intentional approach to teaching evolution : making students aware of the factors influencing learning of microevolution and macroevolution / Sherry A. Southerland and Louis S. Nadelson -- Section IIC: Implementing education in evolution : informal education. Pattern and process : natural history museum exhibits on evolution / Judy Diamond and Patrick Kociolek ; Walking whales and singing flies : an evolution exhibit and assessment of its impact / Judy Diamond, E. Margaret Evans, and Amy N. Spiegel ; Making connections : evolution and the nature and process of science / Anna Thanukos and Judy Scotchmoor ; Commentary on Section II: bringing multiple levels of analysis to bear on evolution teaching and learning / Sarah K. Brem and Gale M. Sinatra.

Call Number

JFE 13-3368

ISBN

• 9780199730421 (acid-free paper)
• 0199730423 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

• 2011040383
• 7423352

OCLC

759491728

Title

Evolution challenges : integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution / edited by Karl S. Rosengren ... [et al.].

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Rosengren, Karl Sven.

Other Standard Identifier

7423352

Research Call Number

JFE 13-3368