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Tiêu đề

The Influence of Education Major: How Diverse Preservice Teachers View Pseudoscience Topics

Tác giả

Losh S.C.; Nzekwe B.

Năm xuất bản

2011

Source title

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1007/s10956-011-9297-0

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027923238&doi=10.1007%2fs10956-011-9297-0&partnerID=40&md5=2696fc4244c57fb4d7425b725fded966

Tóm tắt

Pseudoscience beliefs (e. g., astrology, ghosts or UFOs) are rife in American society. Most research examines creation/evolution among liberal arts majors, general public adults, or, infrequently, middle or high school science teachers. Thus, research truncates the range of ersatz science thinking and the samples it studies. We examined diverse beliefs, e. g., extraterrestrials, magic, Biblical creation, and evolution, among 540 female and 123 male future teachers, including 325 elementary education majors. We study how these cognitions related to education major and, because popular media often present pseudoscience "information", student media use. Future elementary educators most often rejected evolution and endorsed "creationism" or Intelligent Design. Education majors held similar beliefs about astrology, UFO landings, or magic. Compared with other education students, elementary education majors watched less news or science television and read fewer popular science magazines. However, religious and media variables explained more variation in creation/evolution beliefs than education major. We discuss implications of our findings for elementary school science education and how teacher educators may be able to affect pseudoscience beliefs among their elementary education students. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Từ khóa

Elementary school science educators; Preservice teachers; Pseudoscience attitudes; Pseudoscience beliefs

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