@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/DNK2021.95.004.VAND, author = "van Dijk, Rein", title = "Natuurlijke historie en evolutieleer in het christelijk voorbereidend hoger en middelbaar onderwijs tijdens het interbellum", journal= "DNK : Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis na 1800", year = "2021", volume = "44", number = "95", pages = "171-185", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/DNK2021.95.004.VAND", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/DNK2021.95.004.VAND", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2665-9492", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "didactics", keywords = "textbooks", keywords = "teachers", keywords = "secondary (high) school", keywords = "biology education", keywords = "interwar period", keywords = "Reformed Churches", keywords = "religion", keywords = "evolution theory", abstract = "Abstract The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands were opposed to the theory of evolution, for theological reasons. However, at schools preparing for higher and secondary education biology belonged to the standard curriculum. Christian education was no exception, using textbooks which, even if avoiding any theological controversy, supplied an adequate overview of contemporary biological perceptions of evolution and emergence of species. Whatever the objections they might encounter in the Reformed Churches, pupils in Christian secondary schools in the interwar period would not remain ignorant about basic biological reasoning behind the concept of evolution.", }