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- Title
Using Anthropological Principles to Transform the Teaching of Human "Difference" and Genetic Variation in College Classrooms.
- Authors
Hubbard, Amelia R.; Monnig, Laurel A.
- Abstract
Exposure to information about genetics is at an all-time high, while a full understanding of the biocultural complexity of human difference is low. This paper demonstrates the value of an "anthropological approach" to enhance genetics education in biology, anthropology, and other related disciplines, when teaching about human differences such as race/ethnicity, sex/gender, and disability. As part of this approach, we challenge educators across social and natural sciences to critically examine and dismantle the tacit cultural assumptions that shape our understanding of genetics and inform the way we perceive (and teach about) human differences. It calls on educators from both social and natural science disciplines to "de-silo" their classrooms and uses examples from our biological anthropology and sociocultural anthropology classrooms, to demonstrate how educators can better contextualize the "genetics" of human difference in their own teaching. Numerous opportunities to transform our teaching exist, and we are doing a disservice to our students by not taking these critical steps.
- Subjects
SOCIOBIOLOGY; RACIAL classification; SCIENCE education; SECONDARY education
- Publication
Science & Education, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 6, p1541
- ISSN
0926-7220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11191-020-00164-0