Evolution Education in Mexico, Considering Cultural Diversity
| Autor: | Eréndira Alvarez Pérez, María Teresa Guerra Ramos, Alejandra García Franco, José de la Cruz Torres Frías, Alma Adrianna Gómez Galindo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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education.field_of_study
Industrial growth media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population 050301 education 050109 social psychology National curriculum Indigenous State (polity) Cultural diversity 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social science education 0503 education Curriculum Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Evolution Education Around the Globe ISBN: 9783319909387 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-90939-4_6 |
| Popis: | Mexico is a megadiverse country with great biological and cultural diversity. In this chapter, we address the analysis of the evolution education considering the enormous challenge related with these diversity, specially the presence of indigenous groups, which speak more than 365 varieties of 65 languages. To exemplify this challenge the comparison of two regions in Mexico are presented: Monterrey city, in the Northwestern state of Nuevo Leon, characterized by a development based on industrial growth and the Mayan Highlands in the Southeastern state of Chiapas, which is one of the most culturally diverse places in the country with over seventy percent of the population being indigenous. In our analysis, two main issues emerge that require attention to improve the evolution education in Mexico. The first one is evolution is not considered as a transversal approach to biology curriculum rather it is presented as a list of concepts that would need to be covered. The second one is the presence of a national curriculum in which cultural diversity is not explicitly addressed and the diverse contexts of the students are ignored. The dimension of this challenge to promote real evolution education in Mexico and some suggestions to consider an intercultural perspective are discussed in this chapter. |
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