Six Principles for Embracing Gender and Sexual Diversity in Postsecondary Biology Classrooms.

ABSTRACT: Sexual and gender minorities face considerable inequities in society, including in science. In biology, course content provides opportunities to challenge harmful preconceptions about what is "natural" while avoiding the notion that anything found in nature is inherently good (the appeal-to-nature fallacy). We provide six principles for instructors to teach sex- and gender-related topics in postsecondary biology in a more inclusive and accurate manner: highlighting biological diversity early, presenting the social and historical context of science, using inclusive language, teaching the iterative process of science, presenting students with a diversity of role models, and developing a classroom culture of respect and inclusion. To illustrate these six principles, we review the many definit

SUBMITTER: Zemenick AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113276 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature