Article ID: CBB001252320

Competing Views of Embryos for the Twenty-First Century: Textbooks and Society (2013)

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Maienschein, Jane A. (Author)
Wellner, Karen (Author)


Science and Education
Volume: 22, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 241-253


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of special issue “Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching of Biology, Part II - Evolution, Development and Genetics”
Language: English

It might seem that an embryo is an embryo, and that there would be a fact of the matter. That seems especially true with respect to the way embryos are presented in textbooks, including high school biology textbooks. This paper looks at three co-existing, competing, and often conflicting views of embryos. Then with a close study of twentieth century high school biology textbooks, it explores suggestions about the ways those books have influenced public impressions of embryos.

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Authors & Contributors
Shapiro, Adam R.
Allen, Garland E.
Boyce, Conal
Brigandt, Ingo
Bruyn, G. W.
El-Hani, Charbel Niño
Journals
Science and Education
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Foundations of Chemistry
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
University of Chicago
Cambridge University Press
University of South Florida
Routledge
Springer
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science education and teaching
Textbooks
Biology
Evolution
Embryology
Genetics
People
Glass, Bentley
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Scopes, John Thomas
Müller, Hermann Joseph
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Greece
Soviet Union
China
Germany
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