In this article, we explore culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) to work toward alleviating persistent underrepresentation in STEM fields of oppressed minorities. We argue that biology instructors can practice agency, or the capacity to act in ways that undermine opportunity gaps that lead to underrepresentation, by developing themselves into culturally relevant pedagogues who are committed to underrepresented minority (URM) students’ learning and career success, who demonstrate cultural competence, and who develop a sociopolitical consciousness regarding the culturally laden nature of their discipline. We then explore Gregor Mendel’s story to demonstrate the culturally laden nature of the history of science as well as the nature of our current curricular canon. The article concludes with a postulated alternative method to genetics education in a general biology course that reflects the culturally laden nature of our genetics knowledge, as well as our current understanding of inheritance.

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使用与文化相关的教学法重新考虑遗传学佳能†

在本文中，我们探讨了与文化有关的教学法（CRP），以减轻被压迫少数民族的STEM领域中持续存在的代表性不足。我们认为，生物学指导者可以通过发展成为文化上相关的教育家来致力于代理代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）学生的学习和职业成就，从而发挥代理作用或采取行动的能力，以破坏导致代表性不足的机会差距，从而证明文化能力，并培养出关于其学科的文化底蕴的社会政治意识的人。然后，我们探究Gregor Mendel的故事，以证明科学历史的文化底蕴以及我们当前课程标准的性质。