The Growing Visibility of Creationism in Northern Ireland: Are New Science Teachers Equipped to Deal with the Issues?

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-385

  McCrory, Conor ^a   Murphy, Colette ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes to evolution; Creationism; Intelligent design; Secondary science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949509788     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0141-4     Document Type: Article

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