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Tashane Haynes Brown; Carol Hordatt Gentles – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
This review of initial teacher education (ITE) in Jamaica highlights the policies, pivotal events, educational initiatives and reforms that have shaped the landscape of teacher education in Jamaica over the last 50 years. It offers a critical reflection on the provision of ITE and the findings of a recent report on education in Jamaica, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Criticism, Barriers
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Shotwell, Mark – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Biology teachers consider basic Mendelian genetics to be value-free, objective science, immune to misinterpretation and misuse. It may thus come as a surprise to learn that in the early days of genetics a cornerstone of genetics education, the dihybrid cross, was employed to support claims of the racial superiority of whites over blacks and to…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Genetics, Misconceptions