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Tiêu đề

Undergraduate neuroscience education: Blueprints for the 21st century

Tác giả

Wiertelak E.P.; Ramirez J.J.

Năm xuất bản

2008

Source title

Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

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DOI

Liên kết

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-52249109361&partnerID=40&md5=2b5f2325bfc6c7fc153178b66a5a73a5

Tóm tắt

Paralleling the explosive growth of neuroscientific knowledge over the last two decades, numerous institutions from liberal arts colleges to research universities have either implemented or begun exploring the possibility of implementing undergraduate programs in neuroscience. In 1995, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) partnered with Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) to offer a workshop exploring how undergraduate neuroscience education should proceed. Four blueprints were created to provide direction to the burgeoning interest in developing programs in undergraduate neuroscience education: 1) Neuroscience nested in psychology; 2) Neuroscience nested in biology; 3) Neuroscience as a minor; and 4) Neuroscience as a major. In 2005, FUN again partnered with PKAL to revisit the blueprints in order to align the blueprints with modern pedagogical philosophy and technology. The original four blueprints were modified and updated. One particularly exciting outgrowth of the 2005 workshop was the introduction of a fifth curricular blueprint that strongly emphasizes the integration of the humanities and social sciences into neuroscience: Neuroscience Studies. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience, an education in neuroscience will prepare the next generation of students to think critically, synthetically, and creatively as they confront the problems facing humanity in the 21st century.

Từ khóa

Blueprints; Concentration; Major; Minor; Neuroscience education; Neuroscience studies; Neuroscience training; Undergraduate neuroscience education

Tài liệu tham khảo

Ramirez J.J., There's a pony in here somewhere! Reflections on integrating teaching and research at predominantly undergraduate institutions, J Undergrad Neurosci Ed, 4, (2005)