Promoting Positive Attitudes towards Science "and" Religion among Sixth-Form Pupils: Dealing with Scientism and Creationism

Autor/inn/en	Astley, Jeff; Francis, Leslie J.
Titel	Promoting Positive Attitudes towards Science "and" Religion among Sixth-Form Pupils: Dealing with Scientism and Creationism
Quelle	In: British Journal of Religious Education, 32 (2010) 3, S.189-200 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-6200
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Religion; Creationism; Sciences; Conflict; Student Attitudes; Course Content; Science Curriculum; Correlation; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schöpfungstheologie; Science; Wissenschaft; Konflikt; Schülerverhalten; Kursprogramm; Korrelation; Großbritannien
Abstract	A sample of 187 female students, attending a sixth-form study day on religious studies, completed a questionnaire containing four scales concerned with assessing: attitude towards theistic religion, attitude towards science, scientism and creationism. The data demonstrated a negative correlation between attitude towards religion and attitude towards science. However, this negative correlation was transformed into a positive correlation after taking into account individual differences in the students' views about scientism and creationism. The implications of this finding are discussed in the context of the increasing support within society for the teaching of alternatives to evolution within the science curriculum. The authors argue both that it is important to challenge scientism by developing a better understanding of the role and limits of scientific methods, and that religious belief about creation should be recognised as essentially a claim about the ontological dependence of nature rather than about the details of its origins and development. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10