Integrative STEM education for undergraduate neuroscience: Design and implementation
| Autor: | André K. Isaacs, Michelle A. Mondoux, Tomohiko Narita, Ryan E. B. Mruczek, Alo C. Basu, Alexis S. Hill |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
Universities media_common.quotation_subject 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Excellence ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Program Development Students Curriculum Integrative thinking media_common General Neuroscience Neurosciences ComputingMilieux_GENERAL 030104 developmental biology Accountability Active learning Educational Status Faculty development Psychology Inclusion (education) Neuroscience 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience Letters. 746:135660 |
| ISSN: | 0304-3940 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135660 |
| Popis: | As an integrative discipline, neuroscience can serve as a vehicle for the development of integrative thinking skills and broad-based scientific proficiency in undergraduate students. Undergraduate neuroscience curricula incorporate fundamental concepts from multiple disciplines. Deepening the explicit exploration of these connections in a neuroscience core curriculum has the potential to support more meaningful and successful undergraduate STEM learning for neuroscience students. Curriculum and faculty development activities related to an integrative core curriculum can provide opportunities for faculty across disciplines and departments to advance common goals of inclusive excellence in STEM. These efforts facilitate analysis of the institutional STEM curriculum from the student perspective, and assist in creating an internal locus of accountability for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the institution. Faculty at the College of the Holy Cross have undertaken the collaborative design and implementation of an integrative core curriculum for neuroscience that embraces principles of inclusive pedagogy, emphasizes the connections between neuroscience and other disciplines, and guides students to develop broad proficiency in fundamental STEM concepts and skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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