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Rice, Whitney S.; Narasimhan, Subasri; Newton-Levinson, Anna; Pringle, Johanna; Redd, Sara K.; Evans, Dabney P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
The exceptionalism of abortion in public health education, due to social stigma, politicization, and lack of training, contributes to misinformation, policies unjustified by rigorous science, lack of access to person-centered health care, and systemic pregnancy-related inequities. Now that abortion access has vanished for large portions of the…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Social Bias, Political Issues, Health Education
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Fenwick W. English – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
The purpose of this article is to provide linkages to retributive political actions centred in the USA aimed at erasing a long standing commitment of the responsibility of institutions of higher education to correct and ameliorate historical social, racial and moral injustices and inequalities with a political ideology that denies their legitimacy…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Beliefs, Misconceptions, Colleges
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Hawley, Patricia H.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
America's rank among the lowest of developed countries in evolution acceptance rates is due, at least in part, to religious and political opposition. The negative correlations among religiosity, political ideology, and evolution acceptance in the United States have been documented repeatedly, and comfort with evolution varies by region with…
Descriptors: Evolution, Christianity, Religious Factors, Political Issues
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Wright, Jennifer M.; Henze, Erin E. C.; Coles, Jeremy T.; Miller, Nicole A.; Williams, Robert L. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2016
Of all the collegiate majors that affect society, none is more critical than teacher education. If teacher education students are uninformed or misinformed about issues central to society, they are likely to be inept in responding to queries and opinions voiced by their future students regarding such issues. The current study investigated one such…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Political Affiliation, Knowledge Level