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Genetics, Ethics and Education

Where genomics meets the classroom, and the questions schools may soon have to answer.
Reading guide
This is a single standalone volume, so read it from the beginning. Reading each science primer alongside its related analysis will make the ethical arguments easier to follow.
The book sets out how advances in human genetics and genomics are moving into education, and asks how educational officials might respond to personalised genomic information. Its analyses cover the ethical and social issues, while its primers explain the science, bringing together scholars, parents and laypeople to support informed discussion about the future of education and all students.

Description

Genomic information is moving beyond the clinic, and schools may soon be asked to use personalised genetic data in how children are taught. This Cambridge University Press volume, published in 2017, prepares teachers, education officials and others for that conversation. It brings together the ethical, social and educational questions that arise when genetics and schooling meet.

Each analysis is paired with a primer on the underlying science, so readers from very different backgrounds can start from common ground. The book includes parents and laypeople alongside scholarly experts, which keeps real students in view throughout. Its tone is careful and even-handed, making it a useful resource for anyone in education, bioethics or policy who wants to think clearly about the issues before decisions are made.

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