Are you looking for ways to make your teaching of genetics more inclusive, comprehensive, and precise? This month’s Interesting Read offers biology instructors approaches and language choices to foster inclusion of gender identity, disability, and race/ethnicity when discussing genetics-related topics.
Recommendations include ways to represent gender and reproductive diversity in pedigree charts, terminology to separate body parts, gametes, and chromosomes from gendered language, suggestions for respectful discussion of genetic variations connected to disability, and ways to address the misuse and misapplication of genetics in pseudoscientific racism.
Citation:
Hales, K. G. (2020). Signaling Inclusivity in Undergraduate Biology Courses through Deliberate Framing of Genetics Topics Relevant to Gender Identity, Disability, and Race. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(2), es2. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-08-0156