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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Throughout history science and religion have been in conflict. Many of the theories of science do not agree with the religious beliefs of pre-service teachers. Those teachers who will be teaching in the science classroom, must be able to present science without prejudice of personal religious beliefs. Are pre-service teachers prepared for science/religion conflicts? How much conflict do pre-service teachers have between science and religion? This study suggests that pre-service teachers may have a high degree of conflict between science and religion, and that they have received no educational experience on how to deal with this conflict. Such conflict poses a potential problem when presenting science in the classroom, in that non-science information may not be separated from the science presented.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04122011-160146
Date12 April 2011
CreatorsMalloy, Robert Earl
ContributorsMark Bloom
PublisherTexas Christian University
Source SetsTexas Christian University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04122011-160146/
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