Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness
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DOI：
10.1007/s11165-023-10101-0
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发表时间：
2023-02-04
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Ballen，Cissy J.
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作者：
Costello，Robin A.;Beatty，Abby E.;Ballen，Cissy J.
解决社会和世界面临的挑战需要理解科学的偏见和局限性。为了应对这些挑战，在这里，我们提倡将意识形态意识（IA）材料纳入中学后生物学课程。IA材料向学生传达偏见、假设和刻板印象如何影响科学的方法和结果。通过参与IA材料，学生对科学对社会问题的影响的认识有望提高。在本文中，我们将这种IA方法与另外两种包含社会相关内容的教学方法：文化相关教育学和社会科学问题。然后，我们呼吁进行研究，以测试支持教师实施IA材料的方法，评估IA主题对学生学业和社会心理结果的影响，并探索如何在不同的文化和社会环境中实施IA材料。在整个过程中，我们将重点放在高等生物学课堂背景下的IA主题上，但鼓励跨科学学科和教育环境结合IA材料。我们希望更多的IA材料将创造更加透明、科学准确和包容的课堂。
Addressing the challenges facing society and the world will require an understanding of the biases and limitations of science. To combat these challenges, here, we advocate for the incorporation of ideologically aware (IA) material into postsecondary biology curricula. IA materials communicate to students how biases, assumptions, and stereotypes inform approaches to and outcomes of science. By engaging with IA materials, student awareness of the impact of science on social problems is expected to increase. In this paper, we situate this IA approach with two other pedagogical approaches that incorporate societally relevant content: culturally relevant pedagogy and socioscientific issues. We then call for research to test ways of supporting instructor implementation of IA material, to evaluate the impact of IA topics on student academic and sociopsychological outcomes, and to explore how to implement IA material in different cultural and social settings. Throughout, we focus on IA topics in the context of postsecondary biology classrooms but encourage the incorporation of IA materials across scientific disciplines and educational settings. Our hope is that greater inclusion of IA materials will create more transparent, scientifically accurate, and inclusive classrooms.