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Hybrid Teaching: A Classroom Case Study on the History of Mendelian Genetics (2023)

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This special forum highlights innovative and diverse methods of teaching agricultural history. Yet agricultural history itself can also help inform how we teach difficult topics. Take, for instance, one of the most discussed intersections between the history of agriculture and the history of science: the 1900 “rediscovery” of Mendelian genetics and its application to early twentieth-century plant breeding.1 Despite its omnipresence in contemporary textbooks and classrooms, Mendelism can be hard to understand. A 2018 study of undergraduate students at Creighton University found no difference in test scores between biology students who had started their course with either Mendel or molecular genetics.2 Mendelian genetics lent no special insight, nor did it prove itself a “softer” subject. At the secondary school level, everything from card games to gummy bears has been deployed to assist students in tracking the movement of genes through the generations.3

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Article Nicole Welk-Joerger; David D. Vail (2023) Introduction: “You Probably Teach Agricultural History, Even If You Don't Know It”. Agricultural History (pp. 610-615). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Allen, Garland E.
Bonneuil, Christophe
Charnley, Berris
Darden, Lindley
Fantini, Bernardino
Gissis, Snait B.
Journals
Agricultural History
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Filosofia e História da Biologia
Publishers
Western Michigan University
Concepts
Genetics
Mendelism; Mendelian inheritance
Agriculture
Teaching; pedagogy
Biology
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
People
Bateson, William
Baur, Erwin
Biffen, Rowland Harry
Galton, Francis
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Denmark
Europe
France
Institutions
Cambridge University
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