Saturday, April 15, 2006
Teaching Evolution
The New York Academy of Sciences will present a two-day symposium, Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science, on Friday-Saturday, April 21-22, 2006, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The symposium is designed to assist science educators from all levels of American education as well as state and local education officials responsible for their schools' science curriculum respond effectively to the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution.
The goals of this symposium are: (1) to provide science educators with the tools, both rhetorical and scientific, that will help them deal with issues relating to the delivery of science education; (2) enable science teachers to increase science literacy and develop skills of scientific inquiry among their students; (3) ensure that students understand that evidence is a necessary component of the scientific process; and (4) discuss the investigative nature of science, and how to recognize approaches to the teaching of science that reflect non-scientific propositions.
Speakers include:
The symposium is designed to assist science educators from all levels of American education as well as state and local education officials responsible for their schools' science curriculum respond effectively to the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution.
The goals of this symposium are: (1) to provide science educators with the tools, both rhetorical and scientific, that will help them deal with issues relating to the delivery of science education; (2) enable science teachers to increase science literacy and develop skills of scientific inquiry among their students; (3) ensure that students understand that evidence is a necessary component of the scientific process; and (4) discuss the investigative nature of science, and how to recognize approaches to the teaching of science that reflect non-scientific propositions.
Speakers include:
- Glenn Branch, National Center for Science Education: “Infiltration of Intelligent Design”
- Bruce Alberts, UCSF and Past-President, NAS: “Discovery and Evolution of Protein Machines That Make Life Possible”
- John Haught, Professor of Theology, Georgetown University: “Evolution and Religion: What are the Issues?”
- Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University: “Science, Darwin and Design: Teaching Evolution in a Climate of Controversy”
- Robert T. Pennock, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University: “The Nature of Science”
- Jennifer Miller, Biology Teacher, Dover High School: “Teaching Evolution at Dover High School”
