New age beliefs among teacher education students
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2008
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Barnes, A.J.
Abd El Fattah, S.
Chandler, M.A.
Yates, G.C.R.
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Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy in Education, 2008; 16(2):23-37
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Belief in the paranormal is apparently widespread, but education, particularly at a tertiary level, might be thought to counter such beliefs, and embed in their place scientific and rational modes of thought. In this project, levels of New Age belief were measured in a survey of 362 teacher education students at an Australian university. It was found that 36 (100/0) of them consistently rejected all six New Age statements on the survey, and four (1%) consistently accepted all six statements. In all, 226 (62%) indicated agreement with at least one New Age belief. When we defined New Age believers as those who accepted the majority of New Age beliefs, the figure was 25% of the sample.
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Copyright 2008 Barnes, Abd-El-Fattah, Chandler and Yates