{"id":65,"date":"2011-03-02T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/implementing-methodological-secularism-the-teaching-and-practice-of-science-in-contentious-times\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:21:17","slug":"implementing-methodological-secularism-the-teaching-and-practice-of-science-in-contentious-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/implementing-methodological-secularism-the-teaching-and-practice-of-science-in-contentious-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementing Methodological Secularism: The Teaching and Practice of Science in Contentious Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by David E. Henderson, Professor of Chemistry at Trinity College, Hartford<\/p>\n<p>The central problem for public secularism has been identifed by Cobern as a philosophically naked public square. In this chapter, I shall pursue this theme further in three areas. These are, frstly, the problem of philosophical secularism; secondly, how the science courses I have been developing with the support of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) meet Cobern\u2019s four rules for implementing methodological secularism in the classroom; and, fnally, how we can advance this debate.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Implementing Methodological Secularism: The Teaching and Practice of Science in Contentious Times on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17326661\/Implementing-Methodological-Secularism-The-Teaching-and-Practice-of-Science-in-Contentious-Times\">Implementing Methodological Secularism: The Teaching and Practice of Science in Contentious Times<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17326661&amp;access_key=key-l22ivr88nbmrwvpscxr&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_37538\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17326661&amp;access_key=key-l22ivr88nbmrwvpscxr&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David E. Henderson, Professor of Chemistry at Trinity College, Hartford The central problem for public secularism has been identifed by Cobern as a philosophically naked public square. In this chapter, I shall pursue this theme further in three areas. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/implementing-methodological-secularism-the-teaching-and-practice-of-science-in-contentious-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29,30,33],"tags":[63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}