Entomologists in the K-12 Classroom: A Scoping Review.

IF 2.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 ENTOMOLOGY Insects Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI:10.3390/insects15100742
Christopher B Brown, Peter J T White
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Engaging the public is a common practice in science disciplines and is deeply rooted in the discipline of entomology. These efforts to engage specific target groups within the general public are well studied, especially extension efforts to engage farmers and agricultural stakeholders, but this is not the case for K-12 educational spaces. Here, we conducted a scoping review to (1) determine the characteristics of entomology outreach efforts engaging K-12 populations and (2) identify opportunities for improvement based on the synthesis of those characteristics. We systematically searched five databases to identify 42 publications relevant to the parameters of this project. Analysis of characteristics indicated that entomology outreach efforts in K-12 classrooms tend to be reflective, are more often published in educationally focused journals, and rarely evaluate the interventions employed. Opportunities for improvement were identified from these trends, and from them we suggest that the practice of K-12 outreach benefits from (i) publishing in entomology-focused journals, (ii) including non-academic authors, (iii) evaluating interventions, (iv) including student data, and (v) considering axes of diversity and inclusion.

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昆虫学家走进 K-12 课堂:范围审查。
吸引公众参与是科学学科的常见做法,在昆虫学学科中根深蒂固。这些吸引普通公众中特定目标群体的努力已经得到了很好的研究,特别是吸引农民和农业利益相关者的推广努力,但在 K-12 教育空间中却并非如此。在此,我们进行了一次范围审查,目的是:(1)确定吸引 K-12 群体参与的昆虫学推广工作的特点;(2)在综合这些特点的基础上确定改进的机会。我们系统地搜索了五个数据库,确定了与本项目参数相关的 42 篇出版物。对其特点的分析表明,在 K-12 课堂中开展的昆虫学推广活动往往是反思性的,多发表在以教育为重点的期刊上,而且很少对所采用的干预措施进行评估。我们从这些趋势中发现了改进的机会,并建议 K-12 外联实践应从以下方面受益:(i) 在以昆虫学为重点的期刊上发表文章;(ii) 吸收非学术作者参与;(iii) 对干预措施进行评估;(iv) 纳入学生数据;(v) 考虑多样性和包容性轴心。
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Insects
Insects Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Insect Science
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5.10
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1013
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21.77 days
期刊介绍: Insects (ISSN 2075-4450) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of entomology published by MDPI online quarterly. It publishes reviews, research papers and communications related to the biology, physiology and the behavior of insects and arthropods. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Electronic files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material.
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