The primary purpose of this book is to provide science teacher educators with exemplars of professional development programs designed to prepare school teachers to effectively help language learners in science classrooms simultaneously gain language proficiency and conceptual understanding.

This book scrutinizes the current state of evolution education and assesses the recent rise of creationism in Brazil. It provides accounts of classroom-based evolution instruction, teacher preparation programs, educational policies, and school curricula to address challenges faced by biology teachers in the Brazilian educational landscape.