
Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom
Using Evolution to Understand Diversity
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2023
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-1-032-52384-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this guide, educators and authors David Upegui and David E. 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.
Designed as a practical manual for teaching, the chapters focus on teaching concepts of equity through evolutionary biology modules, a cornerstone for building students' scientific understanding of biotic diversity. The book provides pedagogical components alongside historical and scientific components, with contextual chapters that give teachers the background knowledge to understand the historical relationship between science and racism for topics such as natural selection, social justice, and American slavery and colonization. Ready-to-use lesson plans are situated in a historical and theoretical context of science as it relates to racial oppression, and demonstrate how rigorous science education can lead to your students' liberation and personal empowerment despite the historically problematic history of some applications of science. These lesson plans and classroom exercises are presented in a way that introduces the timely extra dimension of anti-racism into the existing biology curricula without significantly increasing teaching loads. The contextual material provided allows the lessons to be implemented across a variety of classrooms regardless of initial familiarity with DEI.
Ideal for secondary biology teachers and their students, particularly in grades 10-12, this book synthesizes timely ideas for high-school educators, harnessing the power of rigorous science to combat marginalization. Lessons and activities have been classroom-tested and are aligned with three different standards: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS); College board (AP Biology); Vision and Change; and use the 5E format.
Designed as a practical manual for teaching, the chapters focus on teaching concepts of equity through evolutionary biology modules, a cornerstone for building students' scientific understanding of biotic diversity. The book provides pedagogical components alongside historical and scientific components, with contextual chapters that give teachers the background knowledge to understand the historical relationship between science and racism for topics such as natural selection, social justice, and American slavery and colonization. Ready-to-use lesson plans are situated in a historical and theoretical context of science as it relates to racial oppression, and demonstrate how rigorous science education can lead to your students' liberation and personal empowerment despite the historically problematic history of some applications of science. These lesson plans and classroom exercises are presented in a way that introduces the timely extra dimension of anti-racism into the existing biology curricula without significantly increasing teaching loads. The contextual material provided allows the lessons to be implemented across a variety of classrooms regardless of initial familiarity with DEI.
Ideal for secondary biology teachers and their students, particularly in grades 10-12, this book synthesizes timely ideas for high-school educators, harnessing the power of rigorous science to combat marginalization. Lessons and activities have been classroom-tested and are aligned with three different standards: Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS); College board (AP Biology); Vision and Change; and use the 5E format.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Reference
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 16 s/w Tabellen
16 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-52384-2 (9781032523842)
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David Upegui | David E. Fastovsky
Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom
Using Evolution to Understand Diversity
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09/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
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David Upegui | David E. Fastovsky
Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom
Using Evolution to Understand Diversity
E-Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€44.99
Available for download

David Upegui | David E. Fastovsky
Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom
Using Evolution to Understand Diversity
Book
09/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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