Student Perceptions on the Value of an Ideologically Aware Curriculum.

ABSTRACT: Recent efforts to make undergraduate biology more inclusive include developing content that explores how human values and priorities impact science, and previous work documents how instructors value an "ideologically aware" biology curriculum that highlights these themes. Here, we surveyed a national sample of undergraduate students in biology classes to explore student perceptions of Ideological Awareness via a mixed-methods investigation. Through quantitative analyses, we found that women students, transgender or gender nonconforming students, and students majoring in biology or another science field were more likely to support the inclusion of Ideological Awareness in the biology classroom. We used expectancy value theory to guide our qualitative interpretations of student survey respon

SUBMITTER: Dunk RDP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415600 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature