Three Decades of Anti-Evolution Campaign and Its Results: Turkish Undergraduates' Acceptance and Understanding of the Biological Evolution Theory

Autor/inn/en	Peker, Deniz; Comert, Gulsum Gul; Kence, Aykut
Titel	Three Decades of Anti-Evolution Campaign and Its Results: Turkish Undergraduates' Acceptance and Understanding of the Biological Evolution Theory
Quelle	In: Science & Education, 19 (2010) 6-8, S.739-755 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0926-7220
DOI	10.1007/s11191-009-9199-1
Schlagwörter	Evolution; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Educational Policy; Creationism; Student Surveys; Socioeconomic Status; Student Attitudes; Science Education; Science Instruction; Science and Society; Scientific Concepts; Theories; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Educational History; Propaganda; Science Curriculum; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schöpfungstheologie; Schülerbefragung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Schülerverhalten; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Theory; Theorie; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Türkei
Abstract	Even though in the early years of the Republic of Turkey Darwin's theory of evolution was treated as a scientific theory and taught fairly in schools, despite all the substantial evidence accumulated supporting the theory of evolution since then, Darwin and his ideas today have been scorned by curriculum and education policy makers. Furthermore, Turkish students and academics have been faced with unprecedented creationist propaganda for many years. In this paper, we first provide a glimpse of the theory of evolution and creationism in Turkey, we then report the results of our survey study (N = 1,098) about the undergraduates' acceptance and understanding of Darwinian evolution and some of the socioeconomic variables affecting those measures. Our cross sectional study shows that acceptance and understanding of the theory of evolution is quite low. We criticize the current state of evolution education in Turkey and call for a change towards a scientific treatment of the theory evolution in schools. (As Provided).
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