1st Edition
Integrating Racial Justice Into Your High-School Biology Classroom Using Evolution to Understand Diversity
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
Biography
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.
