David Upegui, David E. Fastovsky

Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom

Using Evolution to Understand Diversity

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Produktbeschreibung

In this guide, educators and authors David Upegui and David Fastovsky offer a pedagogical prescription for how you can integrate the study of racial justice with evolutionary biology in your existing high-school biology curriculum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 254mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781032529141
• ISBN-10: 1032529148
• Artikelnr.: 68100505

Autorenporträt

David Upegui is a Latino educator, with 12 years of teaching biology in an inner-city US high school. He has won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching and the Evolution Education Award [NABT]. David E. Fastovsky is Professor Emeritus of Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island, United States, where, for the past 36 years, he taught evolutionary biology and Earth and biotic history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Why introduce racial justice in a biology class?
Part 2: The Integration of Anti-Racism into High School Biology Curricula:
Lessons 2. Lessons on Race and biological grouping 3. Lessons on the
history of race-based oppression 4. Lessons on diversity and taking action
Part 3: Racial Justice; Pedagogy, and Evolutionary Biology 5. The meaning
of racial justice 6. The pedagogy of the integration of anti-racism into
high school biology curricula: theoretical considerations 7. Short primer
on the theory of evolution by natural selection Part 4: The origins of
racism and its relationship to science in America 8. The roots of
oppression: slavery, colonization, and unfettered free markets 9.
Oppression in the United States 10. Science and American racism. Part 5:
Conclusion 11. Conclusion