Using Dialogues to Explore Genetics, Ancestry, and Race

作者：Beckwith Jonathan; Bergman Kostia; Carson Michael; Doerr Tobias; Geller Lisa; Pierce Robin; Krimsky Sheldon; Martin Carol; Santiago Marina; Murray Amy Vashlishan^*; Warren Celestine; Zichterman Chad

来源：AMERICAN BIOLOGY TEACHER, 2017, 79(7): 525-537.

DOI：10.1525/abt.2017.79.7.525

• genetics education
• race
• heredity
• genomics
• history of science
• of biology
• science and social justice
• bioethics
• genetic ancestry testing
• genetics
• race and medicine
• teaching with dialogues
• race as a social construct
• ancestry
• scientific objectivity
• bias in science

Teaching the topic of genetics in relationship to ancestry and race generates many questions, and requires a teaching strategy that encourages perspective-based exploration and discussion. We have developed a set of dialogues for discussing the complex science of genetics, ancestry, and race that is contextualized in real human interactions and that contends with the social and ethical implications of this science. This article provides some brief historical and scientific context for these dialogues, describes their development, and relates how we have used them in different ways to engage diverse groups of science learners. The dialogue series can be incorporated into classroom or informal science education settings. After listening to or performing the dialogues and participating in a discussion, students will: (1) recognize misunderstandings about the relationship between DNA and race; (2) describe how DNA testing services assign geographic ancestry; (3) explain how scientific findings have been used historically to promote institutionalized racism and the role personal biases can play in science; (4) identify situations in their own life that have affected their understanding of genetics and race; and (5) discuss the potential consequences of the racialization of medicine as well as other fallacies about the connection of science and race.

• 出版日期2017-9
• 单位东北大学