Teaching human variation: Can education change students' attitudes towards "race"?

Abstract

This paper examines the influence of education on students' attitudes to-wards the race concept. A questionnaire was distributed before and after a short teaching module on human variation. A significant shift in student position from undecided and racial towards non-racial was observed, thus confirming the importance of scientific education in shaping students' opinions.

Keywords

• race
• education
• attitudes
• human variation