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Arold, Benjamin W. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2022
Anti-scientific attitudes can impose substantial costs on societies. Can schools be an important agent in mitigating the propagation of such attitudes? This paper investigates the effect of the content of science education on anti-scientific attitudes, knowledge, and choices. The analysis exploits staggered reforms that reduce or expand the…
Descriptors: Evolution, Creationism, Science Education, Religion
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Clarke, Matthew; Phelan, Anne – Power and Education, 2015
In an anxious world increasingly perceived in terms of risk management, strategies for mapping, articulating and organizing knowledge provide a bulwark against uncertainty. For teacher education, one consequence has been a drive for fullness in relation to knowledge about what teachers should know and be able to do, usually conceived in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Negative Attitudes, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy
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Sutton, Margaret – International Journal of Social Education, 1999
Analyzes the history of global and international education in the social studies in relation to the changes in the U.S. political culture from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century. Demonstrates that integrating global and international education into the curriculum has always generated opposition. (CMK)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education