Abstract

BELTRAN-CASTILLO, María Juliana. Indelible racism and school textbooks on the natural sciences in Colombia (2000-2010). educ.educ. [online]. 2018, vol.21, n.2, pp.285-303. ISSN 0123-1294.  https://doi.org/10.5294/edu.2018.21.2.6.

The contents of eighth and ninth grade textbooks on the natural sciences, published in Colombia during the years from 2000 to 2010, are analyzed in this article. They can be interpreted as scientific racism within the framework of science teaching, the context, and cultural diversity and difference. The results discussed in this article are part of a doctoral dissertation entitled "Scientific Racism in School Textbooks on the Natural Sciences in Colombia". A qualitative methodology was used, and content analysis was the methodological design. Scientific racism was apparent in 14 of the 30 texts analyzed, due to legitimizing the biological concept of human races, using racist biological representations and naturalizing eugenics through the contents of genetics, evolution, taxonomy, human populations and biodiversity, with genetic content being the most frequent. The specific contents with manifestations of scientific racism are those related to inheritance and hereditary characteristics, the human genome, the species and variability, natural selection, adaptations, cultural biodiversity and demographic studies.

Keywords : Racism; cultural diversity; textbook; natural sciences; education.

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