Evolution In Public Schools

Individuals’ opinions towards the theory of evolution can be viewed as a social construct through social institutions such as their education and church. A student with certain discourse throughout their teachings may hinder their incoming knowledge towards evolution by subjective previous knowledge. Through this activity, the students were able to reconstruct their notions of evolution by questioning previous knowledge with knowledge that has been acquired. Through the interaction of group members, it was objectively discussed about each individual’s view on evolution - what their prior knowledge was and their current understanding is. During the discussion, the attention was focused on why or why not the schools should be allowed to teach
For this reason, it was discussed that schools should not be able to prohibit the teaching of evolution studies in public schools. Two arguments were formed; the first being that it could be considered unfair to students who do not believe in evolution due to their religion, and the second argument believed that if evolution is not being taught in schools, it would restrict the future scientists from understanding concepts to obtain new discoveries and
The point came up that if evolution was taught as a science based on facts and not a moral based on opinion, it would be more acceptable to teach in public schools. Many individuals that do not accept evolution can be considered close minded, therefore, they do not accept ideas other than what they had been previously taught and lack the education that surrounds evolution. What can be understood about education has been to educate students about the world that surrounds them. Being presented with evolution and all that it has encompassed, has exposed students with different ways of thinking opening them up to different parts of science that is otherwise left unexposed.
The final message was, the entire group agreed upon evolution; however both sides of the arguments were discussed to try to understand the different viewpoints that individuals may have and the reasons that they have them. Collectively we agreed that negative notions of evolution have been internalized by the discourse that many students are subjected to through social institutions. Due to the lack of education on evolution, many do not understand the concepts which has led to misinterpretations about