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Disrupting Essentialism in Medical Genetics Education
Many traditional practices in medical genetics education need review to counteract messages of essentialism, or the belief in an underlying natural...
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Behavioral Genetics, Population Genetics, and Genetic Essentialism
The paper presents an experimental study that examines the conditions required for news about behavioral genetics to activate genetic essentialism...
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A Concluding Critique of Education, Entrepreneurialism, and Essentialism
An ideological critique explores how a ‘Born-in-Japan’ form of neoliberal mercantilism is cleverly superimposed on a ‘Made-in-Singapore’...
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Accepting to Be Naïve like a Fool
This last chapter serves as the conclusion to the book and summarizes the main takeaways. The key elements of observality,...
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From Basic to Humane Genomics Literacy
Genetic essentialism of race is the belief that racial groups have different underlying genetic essences which cause them to differ physically,...
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How are High-School Students’ Teleological and Essentialist Conceptions Expressed in the Context of Genetics and What Can Teachers Do to Address Them?
Conceptual development and biology education research have shown that design teleology and psychological essentialism are obstacles in understanding...
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Does Social Constructionist Curricula Both Decrease Essentialist and Increase Nominalist Beliefs About Race?
Increasingly, educators in the biological and social sciences teach about the concept of race from a social constructionist perspective. Scholarship...
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Esca** the Confines of Essentialism: Conceptualizing New Spaces of Identification Among Native and Nonnative ESL Instructors
Emotional tensions play a vital role in examining teacher identity development, in which the native-nonnative dichotomy between teachers is often...
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How Can We Make Genetics Education More Humane?
The science of human genetics does not have a socially neutral impact on human psychology. Exposure to some forms of genetic information can bias...
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The regenerative power of curriculum theorising: feminine wonderings/wanderings (without)
Ubuntu-currere, resonates with Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity (inspired by the figuration of the salamander) in the sense that they are...
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Joint effects of offset effort beliefs and biomedical causal attributions on pre-service teachers’ stigma of children with ADHD-related symptoms
This experimental study examined ways to reduce stigma against children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. We randomly...
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Investigating Conflation of Sex and Gender Language in Student Writing About Genetics
Conflation of sex and gender is implicated in the development of essentialist thinking, which has been linked to the justification of systems of...
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In Defence of the Cultural Other: Foreignisation or Mindful Essentialism?
This paper looks at the mediation of difference in translation and how this can affect tolerance and relations with the intercultural other. It...
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Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity
Unlike in other countries, heredity and genetics appear first in Spanish science standards in secondary levels. However, some researchers have...
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Native-speakerism, (dis)Empowerment, and Paradoxes of Internationalization: An Autoethnography of Success and Failure in Language Teaching and Learning in Japan
Native-speakerism is an ideology in English language teaching, which values the models of English and the pedagogical approaches of the West above...
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Metacognition and Self-Regulation in Science Learning
The purpose of this chapter is to review the recent research on metacognition and self-regulated learning and to discuss the implications of this...
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Integral We-Spaces for Racial Equity: Loving Fiercely Across Our Differences
This chapter explores the theory and practice of our emerging model, We-Spaces for Equity, designed to create the conditions needed for deep...
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Power, Legitimating Discourses and Institutional Resistance to Gender Equality in Higher Education
This chapter underlines the importance of institutional resistance and legitimating discourses in understanding why the pace of change in gender...
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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors...
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Critical Pedagogy and Digital Education in Second Language Learning: A Poststructuralist Perspective
There have been a lot of studies on ideology and critical pedagogy from a poststructuralist perspective in recent decades.