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Peer reviewedGieryn, Thomas F.; And Others – American Sociological Review, 1985
During the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925, scientists presented scientific knowledge and religious belief as different but complementary. At the McLean "Creation Science" trial of 1981-82, the boundary between science and religion excluded creation scientists from the profession. Such ideological flexibility has contributed to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution
Peer reviewedSimons, Herbert W. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1985
Discusses implications and ideas presented at the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Conference (University of Iowa, March 28-31, 1984), a symposium in which distinguished representatives from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences met to share common dissatisfactions with prevailing scientific orthodoxies and common interests in…
Descriptors: Conferences, Higher Education, Humanities, Natural Sciences
Anderson, Patricia W. – 1984
Twentieth century scientific advancement has produced a "New Age" requiring a new ethics. The nature of human action has been profoundly and irrevocably modified. Theoretically, an ethics for the New Age must take into account humankind's new relationships to human interaction and to the natural world. New issues requiring important ethical…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Cybernetics, Ethics, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedLin, Bao-Shan; Crawley, Frank E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Reports on an investigation into the differences in classroom climate and science-related attitudes among junior high school science classes on students in Taiwan. Most of the differences in classroom climate, student attitude, and their interactions were attributed to school location (metropolitan versus rural) rather than student…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Rural Urban Differences
