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Reclaiming Race as a Topic of the U.S. Biology Textbook Curriculum.
- Source :
- Science Education; Nov2015, Vol. 99 Issue 6, p1092-1117, 26p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT Even though human racial difference has been a longstanding topic of the school biology curriculum, there is little evidence that contemporary biology textbooks challenge stereotypical racial beliefs that are based in biological thinking. Rather, the modern biology curriculum may be a place where such beliefs about race are perpetuated unwittingly. Drawing upon a theoretical framework of racial conceptualization based in psychological essentialism, this paper argues that biology textbook curricula ought to directly challenge problematic and unscientific racial beliefs to increase understanding of human genetic variation and decrease racial beliefs associated with prejudice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BIOLOGY education
BIOLOGY textbooks
SCIENCE education
RACIAL differences
STEREOTYPES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00368326
- Volume :
- 99
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Science Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110320194
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21173