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This is not a book about the history of evolution nor a history of public receptivity toward it. It is not about questioning the validity of evolutionary theory. This is an anthropology of science education in America today. Why, when we examine the stories and experiences of students from the university, their schooling, and their lives, do we continue as a nation to produce, at least in some quarters, such antievolutionary sentiment? What explicit and implicit rationales do students and teachers employ when choosing to engage or avoid education about evolution? When we step back from the idealistic hopes of science educators and policy makers, how is evolution education handled when the peering spot light of research is turned off?
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Long, D.E. (2011). Prologue: Darwin’s Apocalypse. In: Evolution and Religion in American Education. Cultural Studies of Science Education, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1808-1_1
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