Título del libro: Evolution Education Around The Globe
Título del capítulo: Evolution education in Mexico, considering cultural diversity
ERENDIRA ALVAREZ PEREZ;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2018
Resumen:
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. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
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ISBN:
9783319909394
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Springer International Publishing Nombre de la publicación:
Evolution education in Mexico, considering cultural diversity
Página inicial:
101
Página final:
118
