Preface
Wilmot James
A Tribute to Stephen Jay Gould
Pippa Skotnes
Introduction
Wilmot James and Lynne Wilson

SECTION 1
Science, Evolution and Schooling in South Africa

CHAPTER 1
Science, Evolution and Schooling in South Africa
Jeffrey Lever

CHAPTER 2
Comment and Response to Science, Evolution and Schooling
in South Africa
Wieland Gevers

CHAPTER 3
Religion, Science and Evolution in South Africa:
The Politics and Construction of the Revised National
Curriculum Statement for Schools (Grades R9)
Linda Chisholm

CHAPTER 4
Science, Evolution, Religion and Education Creating Opportunities
for Learning in South Africas Schools
Naledi Pandor

CHAPTER 5
Alternative Sense-making Strategies Can our Schools
handle the Challenge?
Bernard C. Lategan

SECTION 2
Evolution, Creationism, Indigenous Knowledge

CHAPTER 6
The Evolution/Creationism Debate: Insights and
Implications from the Indigenous Knowledge
Systems Perspective
Catherine Odora Hoppers

CHAPTER 7
Islamic Discourse on Evolution: Response to Science,
Evolution and Schooling in South Africa by Jeffrey Lever
Abdulkader Tayob

CHAPTER 8
Evolution, Creationism, Indigenous Knowledge:
A Comment from a Somewhat Dissident Jewish Perspective
Denis Davis

CHAPTER 9
Christianity and Evolution
David Chidester

SECTION 3
Biology, Evolution, Curriculum Development and Publishing

CHAPTER 10
The Structure of the Natural Sciences Learning Area Statement
and Opportunities within it for the Teaching and Learning
of Evolution
Dev Isaac

CHAPTER 11
Science, Evolution and Book Publishing: A Publishers Dilemma
Fathima Dada

CHAPTER 12
Challenges of Writing about Evolution in School Textbooks
Colleen Dawson

SECTION 4
The Genome, Biology and Education

CHAPTER 13
Science, Genomics and Education in South Africa
Kader Asmal

About the Authors

Index