Undergraduate Biology Education and Research - A New Vision for Change: Re-imagining Biology Education through Social Justice

该项目旨在通过召集专家展示扩大本科生物学参与的最新研究，为国家利益服务。该会议是戈登研究会议（GRC）组合的一部分，该组合每年由数百个会议组成，其中三个是教育领域的会议。本科生物教育研究GRC是一个重要的国际科学会议，致力于通过展示前沿和未发表的研究来推进科学前沿，在每次演讲后优先安排讨论时间，并促进所有职业阶段的科学家之间的非正式互动。本科生物学教育研究GRC是GRC家族中第一个专注于调查如何关注社会正义问题可以改善本科生物学学习和教学的GRC。本次会议将汇集学生、博士后学者、研究人员、教育工作者、管理人员、政策制定者和出版商，提供一个论坛来分享新兴的研究和实践，促进跨学科和部门的本科生物学教育的包容性、多样性、公平性、可及性和社会正义。自2019年上次戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会以来，本科生物学教育研究界的话语发生了重大变化。这些变化的两个关键驱动因素包括：2019冠状病毒病大流行对教育系统的破坏，以及关于基于社会正义视角的学习环境在改善生物学学习和教学方面可以发挥重要作用的对话日益增多。从这些混乱中出现了新的认识：本科生物教育研究人员和实践者社区重视与来自不同社区和身份交叉点的学生和学者合作，以创造包容性的学习环境。这种认识促使人们对研究进行新的对话，这可能会重塑机构的做法和政策，推动进一步的行动，在全国各地的机构中实施变革。具体而言，会议邀请正在进行的奖学金，努力以人和社区为中心，促进合作和系统变革，并为社会正义创造新的愿景。本项目由美国国家科学基金会IUSE: EDU项目资助，该项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性，并由生物基础设施部资助。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by convening experts to showcase the latest research on broadening participation in undergraduate biology. The conference is part of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) portfolio, which consists of hundreds of conferences each year, three of which are in education areas. The Undergraduate Biology Education Research GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The Undergraduate Biology Education Research GRC is the first in the GRC family to focus exclusively on investigating how attention to social justice issues can inform improvements in undergraduate biology learning and teaching. This conference will bring together students, postdoctoral scholars, researchers, educators, administrators, policy makers, and publishers, providing a forum to share emerging research and practices that promote inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and social justice in undergraduate biology education across disciplines and sectors. The undergraduate biology education research community has witnessed significant changes in its discourse since the last Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar in 2019. Two key drivers for such changes include disruptions to the educational system by the COVID-19 pandemic and intensified conversations about the important role that learning environments informed by a social justice lens can play in leading to improved biology learning and teaching. A renewed recognition emerged from these disruptions: The community of undergraduate biology education researchers and practitioners values partnering with students and scholars from different communities and intersections of identities to create inclusive learning environments. This recognition compels renewed conversations on research that may reshape institutional practices and policies, propelling further action to implement changes at institutions across the nation. Specifically, the conference invites on-going scholarship that strives to center people and communities, foster collaborations and systemic changes, and create new visions toward social justice. This project is funded by NSF's IUSE: EDU Program, which supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students and by the Division of Biological Infrastructure.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.