NDLI: Science and religion: implications for science educators

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Reiss, Michael J.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	A religious perspective on life shapes how and what those with such a perspective learn in science; for some students a religious perspective can hinder learning in science. For such reasons Staver’s article is to be welcomed as it proposes a new way of resolving the widely perceived discord between science and religion. Staver notes that Western thinking has traditionally postulated the existence and comprehensibility of a world that is external to and independent of human consciousness. This has led to a conception of truth, truth as correspondence, in which our knowledge corresponds to the facts in this external world. Staver rejects such a conception, preferring the conception of truth as coherence in which the links are between and among independent knowledge claims themselves rather than between a knowledge claim and reality. Staver then proposes constructivism as a vehicle potentially capable of resolving the tension between religion and science. My contention is that the resolution between science and religion that Staver proposes comes at too great a cost—both to science and to religion. Instead I defend a different version of constructivism where humans are seen as capable of generating models of reality that do provide richer and more meaningful understandings of reality, over time and with respect both to science and to religion. I argue that scientific knowledge is a subset of religious knowledge and explore the implications of this for science education in general and when teaching about evolution in particular.
Starting Page	91
Ending Page	101
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18711502
Journal	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18711510
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-05-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Epistemology Science and religion Constructivism Creationism Sociology of Education Science Education Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cultural Studies

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