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- Title
Reclaiming Race as a Topic of the U.S. Biology Textbook Curriculum.
- Authors
DONOVAN, BRIAN M.
- 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.
- Subjects
BIOLOGY education; BIOLOGY textbooks; SCIENCE education; RACIAL differences; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
Science Education, 2015, Vol 99, Issue 6, p1092
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.21173