RELIGION IN THE NEWS
Summer/Fall 2007, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2

Religion in the News

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Articles in Special Supplement

Contents of
Supplement

Introduction:
Science Education & Secular Values:

The Congruence Between the Scientific and the Secular

Science Education and Religion: Holding the Center

The Competition of Secularism and Religion in a Science Education

Scientific Literacy in a Postmodern World

High School Students Speak Out

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ISSSC

Introduction

Each year the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) focuses on a particular theme related to its goal, which is to advance in a non-partisan way the academic understanding of the role of secular values and the process of
secularization in society and culture. It does this through an integrated program of work in academic research, curriculum development and public education.

 For the academic year 2006-07, the ISSSC sponsored faculty fellowships on the topic of “The secular tradition and the foundations of the natural sciences.”   

The culmination of the academic year was a workshop at Trinity College. Leading national experts in science education were invited to present and debate new ideas on some of the current challenges facing science education with the ISSSC fellows and staff. This symposium includes highlights from some of the papers delivered on this topical and controversial public policy issue.