Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Undergraduate STEM Education: Participatory Science as a Teaching Tool.

IF 4.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES Cbe-Life Sciences Education Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI:10.1187/cbe.23-06-0123
Heather D Vance-Chalcraft, Kalynda Chivon Smith, Jessica Allen, Gillian Bowser, Caren B Cooper, Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, Colleen Karl, Robin Kodner, Mara Laslo
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Social justice is increasingly being seen as relevant to the science curriculum. We examine the intersection of participatory science, social justice, and higher education in the United States to investigate how instructors can teach about social justice and enhance collaborations to work toward enacting social justice. Participatory science approaches, like those that collect data over large geographic areas, can be particularly useful for teaching students about social justice. Conversely, local-scale approaches that integrate students into community efforts can create powerful collaborations to help facilitate social justice. We suggest a variety of large-scale databases, platforms, and portals that could be used as starting points to address a set of learning objectives about social justice. We also describe local-scale participatory science approaches with a social justice focus, developed through academic and community partnerships. Considerations for implementing participatory science with undergraduates are discussed, including cautions about the necessary time investment, cultural competence, and institutional support. These approaches are not always appropriate but can provide compelling learning experiences in the correct circumstances.

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社会正义、社区参与和本科生 STEM 教育:作为教学工具的参与式科学。
社会正义越来越被视为与科学课程相关。我们研究了参与式科学、社会正义和美国高等教育之间的交叉点,以探讨教师如何教授社会正义并加强合作,努力实现社会正义。参与式科学方法,如在大范围内收集数据的方法,对于向学生传授社会正义知识特别有用。反之,将学生融入社区工作的地方规模方法可以建立强大的合作关系,帮助促进社会正义。我们推荐了各种大型数据库、平台和门户网站,它们可以作为实现一系列社会公正学习目标的起点。我们还介绍了通过学术和社区合作开发的以社会公正为重点的地方规模参与式科学方法。我们讨论了在本科生中实施参与式科学的注意事项,包括必要的时间投入、文化能力和机构支持。这些方法并不总是合适的,但在正确的情况下可以提供令人信服的学习体验。
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Cbe-Life Sciences Education
Cbe-Life Sciences Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-
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100
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期刊介绍: CBE—Life Sciences Education (LSE), a free, online quarterly journal, is published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The journal was launched in spring 2002 as Cell Biology Education—A Journal of Life Science Education. The ASCB changed the name of the journal in spring 2006 to better reflect the breadth of its readership and the scope of its submissions. LSE publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The ASCB believes that learning in biology encompasses diverse fields, including math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and the interdisciplinary intersections of biology with these fields. Within biology, LSE focuses on how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics.
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