Collaborative Research: Integrating Interdisciplinary Approaches into Biology Textbooks

合作研究：将跨学科方法融入生物学教科书

• 批准号: 2146974
• 负责人: Angela Willey
• 金额: $ 26.53万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2146974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Integrating; Interdisciplinary; Approaches

This project brings together research from interdisciplinary fields to create a novel approach to biology and biology education. This project draws from theoretical work across the humanities and even outside of the academy to change the way we think about knowledge about our living worlds. Currently biology education continues to rely on memorization of biological facts. Those facts are often simplified and narrowly developed in one discipline. By integrating knowledge from current science and technology literature into biology curriculum, undergraduate students will learn additional skills for engaging in science and research throughout their lives. The developed curriculum aims to shift how all people think about their competence and ethical responsibility to understand and fully participate in science. This study therefore has the potential to impact who becomes interested and invested in biology by using participatory ways of learning. This pedagogical intervention will contribute to the benefits of science to be more evenly distributed throughout society. The project outcomes will be of interest to policy makers, educators, parents and students. The project is broken into three parts. The first part provides the basis and rationale for the project by analyzing current biology textbooks identifying points for intervention. Part two of the project culls research on the subject matter of biology, bodies and environments, from interdisciplinary academic and non-academic sources that are typically underrepresented in biology education. The final part of the project integrates these knowledges into education modules to be tested in classes and public forums. To realize its potential and allow for future expansion to K-12 and larger segments of the public, the results will be made broadly accessible to educators and laypersons through open access. This project may also serve as a model for how more interdisciplinary research can be successfully conducted across typical divisions between the humanities and sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目汇集了跨学科领域的研究成果，为生物学和生物学教育创造了一种新颖的方法。这个项目借鉴了人文学科甚至学术界以外的理论工作，以改变我们对生活世界的知识的思考方式。目前的生物教育仍然依赖于记忆生物事实。这些事实往往在一门学科中被简化和狭隘地发展。通过将当前科学技术文献中的知识整合到生物学课程中，本科生将学习到终身从事科学研究的额外技能。开发的课程旨在改变所有人对理解和充分参与科学的能力和伦理责任的看法。因此，这项研究有可能通过使用参与式学习方式影响对生物学感兴趣和投资的人。这种教学干预将有助于科学的利益更均匀地分配到整个社会。项目成果将引起政策制定者、教育工作者、家长和学生的兴趣。这个项目分为三个部分。第一部分通过对现有生物教材的分析，提出了本课题的基础和理论依据，并确定了干预点。该项目的第二部分从生物学教育中代表性不足的跨学科学术和非学术来源中挑选关于生物学、人体和环境主题的研究。项目的最后一部分将这些知识整合到教育模块中，在课堂和公共论坛上进行测试。为了实现其潜力并允许未来扩展到K-12和更大的公众群体，结果将通过开放获取广泛地提供给教育工作者和非专业人士。这个项目也可以作为一个模型，说明如何在人文科学和自然科学之间的典型部门之间成功地进行更多的跨学科研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。