Cross-Disciplinary Research in Biology Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

19:ed1, 1 I would love to collaborate with learning scientists, but I never meet them at biology education conferences.Measuring students' brain activity?That sounds intriguing, but how would I get started?What do you mean by "epistemological beliefs about science"?Oh, that's what we call "nature of science"!Perhaps you have heard comments like the ones above or made them yourself.The challenges in initiating and conducting research across disciplinary boundaries are real.Researchers and practitioners from various disciplines attend different conferences, use different methodologies, and sometimes use different terms to refer to similar phenomena (see Peffer et al. in this issue).Further, individuals from across disciplines also do not usually publish their scholarly work in the same journals.This last point inspired this cross-disciplinary-themed issue of CBE-Life Sciences Education (LSE).This special issue of the journal is a response to several recent calls to promote research across disciplinary boundaries in science, technology, engineering,

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