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Direct linkWillinsky, John – Science & Education, 2020
Following on earlier examinations of biology high school textbooks' handling of race, this study examines eleven biology textbooks, intended for US high school use and published between 2014 and 2019. It offers a close reading of these textbooks' treatment of four topics that have been associated with race: genetic disorders, human origins, skin…
Descriptors: High School Students, Textbook Bias, Racial Bias, Science Education
Nehm, Ross H.; Young, Rebecca – Science & Education, 2008
This study explores the extent to which the term "sex hormone" is used in science textbooks, and whether the use of the term "sex hormone" is associated with pre-empirical concepts of sex dualism, in particular the misconceptions that these so-called "sex hormones" are sex specific and restricted to sex-related physiological functioning. We found…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Medicine, Biology, Secondary School Science
