Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be
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Resumo: | This paper aims at assessing the evolutionist and creationist conceptions of Brazilian teachers. The work was developed within the framework of the European project BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which takes into account that scientific knowledge and teachers’ attitudes and values can influence the teaching practices. The large questionnaire BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which was constructed to be applied in 19 countries in Europe, Africa and in Middle East, was applied, in this study, to six groups of Brazilian teachers: Primary school teachers, Biology teachers and Portuguese language teachers and corresponding teachers-to-be. For this paper the answers to questions about evolution were used as dependent variables. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were carried out. Biology teachers and Biology teachers-to-be give more importance to the natural selection and the evolution process than the other groups of teachers. Comparing to the BIOHEAD-CITIZEN countries, the total Brazilian sample showed a higher percentage of creationist conceptions, particularly the Brazilian Biology teachers and teachers-to-be. As discussed herein, this may not be an obstacle for teaching evolution as they accept both creationist and evolutionist concomitantly. |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-beTeaching biologyBiological evolutionCreationismBrazilian teachersTeachers-to-beThis paper aims at assessing the evolutionist and creationist conceptions of Brazilian teachers. The work was developed within the framework of the European project BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which takes into account that scientific knowledge and teachers’ attitudes and values can influence the teaching practices. The large questionnaire BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which was constructed to be applied in 19 countries in Europe, Africa and in Middle East, was applied, in this study, to six groups of Brazilian teachers: Primary school teachers, Biology teachers and Portuguese language teachers and corresponding teachers-to-be. For this paper the answers to questions about evolution were used as dependent variables. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were carried out. Biology teachers and Biology teachers-to-be give more importance to the natural selection and the evolution process than the other groups of teachers. Comparing to the BIOHEAD-CITIZEN countries, the total Brazilian sample showed a higher percentage of creationist conceptions, particularly the Brazilian Biology teachers and teachers-to-be. As discussed herein, this may not be an obstacle for teaching evolution as they accept both creationist and evolutionist concomitantly.CIEC – FCT Research Unit 317.David PublishingUniversidade do MinhoCaldeira, Ana Maria de AndradeAraújo, Elaine Sandra Nicolini Nabuco deCarvalho, Graça Simões de20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/18308eng1934-7391http://www.davidpublishing.com/davidpublishing/journals/j1/Journal_of_Life_Sciences/js2025/648.htmlinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:11:49Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/18308Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:03:38.501294Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be Caldeira, Ana Maria de Andrade Teaching biology Biological evolution Creationism Brazilian teachers Teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Creationism and evolution views of brazilian teachers and teachers-to-be |
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Caldeira, Ana Maria de Andrade |
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Caldeira, Ana Maria de Andrade Araújo, Elaine Sandra Nicolini Nabuco de Carvalho, Graça Simões de |
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Araújo, Elaine Sandra Nicolini Nabuco de Carvalho, Graça Simões de |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Caldeira, Ana Maria de Andrade Araújo, Elaine Sandra Nicolini Nabuco de Carvalho, Graça Simões de |
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Teaching biology Biological evolution Creationism Brazilian teachers Teachers-to-be |
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Teaching biology Biological evolution Creationism Brazilian teachers Teachers-to-be |
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This paper aims at assessing the evolutionist and creationist conceptions of Brazilian teachers. The work was developed within the framework of the European project BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which takes into account that scientific knowledge and teachers’ attitudes and values can influence the teaching practices. The large questionnaire BIOHEAD-CITIZEN, which was constructed to be applied in 19 countries in Europe, Africa and in Middle East, was applied, in this study, to six groups of Brazilian teachers: Primary school teachers, Biology teachers and Portuguese language teachers and corresponding teachers-to-be. For this paper the answers to questions about evolution were used as dependent variables. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were carried out. Biology teachers and Biology teachers-to-be give more importance to the natural selection and the evolution process than the other groups of teachers. Comparing to the BIOHEAD-CITIZEN countries, the total Brazilian sample showed a higher percentage of creationist conceptions, particularly the Brazilian Biology teachers and teachers-to-be. As discussed herein, this may not be an obstacle for teaching evolution as they accept both creationist and evolutionist concomitantly. |
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