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Introduction: The Congruence Between the Scientific and the Secular Science Education and Religion: Holding the Center The Competition of Secularism and Religion in a Science Education Scientific Literacy in a Postmodern World High School Students Speak Out
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Contributors Dr. Jeffrey Burkhardt is Professor of Ethics and Policy Studies at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences of the University of Florida. For the past 15 years he has worked in a science- and technology-development organization devoted to food and natural resource problem-solving. He teaches courses on Agriculture and Natural Resource Ethics, Science Ethics, and the Philosophy of Economics. His research has focused on the human and environmental impacts of agricultural biotechnology, which some regard as a “technological fix” for issues associated with “The Malthusian Problem.” Dr. Burkhardt chaired the Council on Agricultural Science and Technology Task Force on Agricultural Ethics, which issued the report, Agricultural Ethics, in 2005. Dr. William W. Cobern is Professor of Biological Sciences and Science Education and Director of the Mallinson Institute for Science Education at Western Michigan University. He began his science education career as a high school biology and chemistry teacher, and has also taught science at the elementary and college levels. At the Institute he teaches a variety of courses for science teacher development and science education research. He has an active research program funded by the National Science Foundation. In 2006, Dr. Cobern was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Jon D. Miller is the John A. Hannah Professor of Integrative Studies at Michigan State University. He has measured the public understanding of science and technology in the United States for the last three decades and has pioneered the definition and measurement of scientific literacy. His approach to the public understanding of science has been replicated in more than 40 countries. Dr. Miller is the Director of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recently completed his second six-year term on the AAAS Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology. Dr. Robert T. Pennock is Professor of Philosophy at the Lyman Briggs School of Science, Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science and Engineering, and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior at Michigan State University. The author of Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, he was called as an expert witness in the 2005 Kitzmiller case which ruled that including intelligent design creationism in a public school is unconstitutional. Dr. Pennock is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the AAAS Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology and also the National Academies of Science committee that is revising the NAS publications on evolution education and creationism. Dr. Ariela Keysar, a demographer, is associate director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and associate research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College. She was the study director of the American Religious Identification Survey 2001 and is co-author of Religion in a Free Market, and Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives. Religion in the News articles Dr. Barry A. Kosmin, a sociologist, is founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College. He was principal investigator of the CUNY National Survey of Religious Identification 1990 and the American Religious Identification Survey 2001 and co-author of Religion in a Free Market, and Secularism & Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives. Religion in the News articles |
