Increasing Faculty Involvement in the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Learning Experience
Increasing Faculty Involvement in the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Learning Experience
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增加教师对本科跨学科学习体验的参与
DOI：
10.1093/icb/icab109
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Hansen, Alexandria K
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作者：
Lent, David D;Estes, Korenna M;Hansen, Alexandria K
Synospis我们越来越多地看到，生命科学的进步是因为跨学科的合作。这些合作代表着未来，它们是解决世界上最紧迫的问题和重大挑战所必需的。但是，我们是否在为下一代科学家和社区做好准备？在大学一级，一些倡议和研究表明，有必要重新纳入生物学教育，并提出论点，认为学生要建立生物学的核心能力，他们的教育需要是跨学科的。在K-12级别，通过实施下一代科学标准（NGSS），跨学科学习正在取得进展。随着NGSS的实施，它将从根本上改变K-12级别的生命科学教育。然而，当看到这些举措和研究对为学生提供的本科生物学学位课程的影响时，它们似乎仍然经常被孤立，跨学科的整合有限。为了使跨学科生物学教育更加成功，我们需要生物学家，他们由于这样或那样的原因在过去没有参与这些对话，而是更多地参与其中。我们还需要加强生物学家和教育研究人员之间的沟通和合作。
SynospisMore and more, we see that advances in life sciences are made because of Interdisciplinary collaborations. These collaborations are the future—they are necessary to solve the world’s most pressing problems and grand challenges. But are we preparing the next generation of scientists and the community for this future? At the University level, a number of initiatives and studies have suggested the need to reintegrate biology education and have made arguments that for students to build core competencies in biology, their education needs to be interdisciplinary. At the K-12 level, progress is being made to make learning interdisciplinary through the implementation of theNext-Generation Science Standards(NGSS). As NGSS is implemented, it will fundamentally change life sciences education at the K-12 level. However, when seeing the effect these initiatives and studies have had on the courses offered to students for their undergraduate biology degree, they still appear to be often siloed, with limited integration across disciplines. To make interdisciplinary biology education more successful, we need biologists, who for one reason or another have not been part of these conversations in the past and are more involved. We also need to increase communication and collaboration between biologists and educational researchers.