Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781032529141 / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str.

David E. Fastovsky

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.