Sarah-Marie da Silva
Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education
da Silva, Sarah-Marie; Hubbard, Katharine
Authors
Dr Katharine Hubbard K.Hubbard@hull.ac.uk
Reader in Biology Education, Director of Education School of Natural Sciences
Abstract
Society and education is inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of colour have required educators to design proactively anti-racist curricula. Here we explore parallel anti-ableist approaches to bioscience education, in an essay co-authored by a disabled bioscience student and able bodied faculty member in bioscience. Our work is underpinned by Critical Disability Theory, and draws on disability and pedagogical scholarship as well as our own experiences. The biosciences has a unique need to confront its history in the discredited pseudoscience of eugenics, which has led to discrimination and human rights abuses against disabled people. We provide a brief history of the relationship between biological sciences research and eugenics, and explore how this legacy impacts on bioscience education today. We then present a recommended structure for anti-ableist biology education. Our approach goes beyond providing disability access, to a model that educates all students about disability issues and empowers them to challenge anti-ableist narratives and practices.
Citation
da Silva, S.-M., & Hubbard, K. (2024). Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-10-0195
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Jun 12, 2024 |
| Online Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024 |
| Publication Date | Sep 1, 2024 |
| Deposit Date | Jun 17, 2024 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jul 30, 2024 |
| Journal | CBE-Life Sciences Education |
| Electronic ISSN | 1931-7913 |
| Publisher | American Society for Cell Biology |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.23-10-0195 |
| Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4710789 |
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© 2024 S.-M. Da Silva and K. Hubbard. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2024 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).
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