Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom - Using Evolution to Understand Diversity

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David E. Fastovsky, Fastovsky David E., David Upegui, David Fastovsky Upegui
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032529141
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252914-1
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Secondary Schools, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology