Open AccessTeaching human variation: Can education change students' attitudes towards "race"?
Author(s) -
Goran Štrkalj,
Victoria E. Gibbon,
Tracey Wilkinson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei0701253s
Subject(s) - race (biology) , variation (astronomy) , psychology , racial group , mathematics education , sociology , social psychology , gender studies , physics , astrophysics
This paper examines the influence of education on students' attitudes to-wards the race concept. A questionnaire was distributed before and after a short teaching module on human variation. A significant shift in student position from undecided and racial towards non-racial was observed, thus confirming the importance of scientific education in shaping students' opinions
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