Teaching Neuroscience: Innovative Approaches for Undergraduate Education
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2020) | Viewed by 4681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neuroscience education; drug and alcohol dependence; neuronal cell culture; biochemistry; microscopy; immunohistochemistry; brain imaging; behavioral neuroscience
Interests: neuroscience education; pedagogy; drug dependence; central nervous system damage; biochemistry; learning and memory
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to Teaching Neuroscience: Innovative Approaches for Undergraduate Education, a Special Issue of Brain Sciences.
Neuroscience is growing globally, as an occupation and an educational discipline. Recent findings suggest that the impetus for this growth is due to students’ inherent interest in the brain and associated structures, as well as a recognition that neuroscience, being a multidisciplinary field of study, will provide students with a comprehensive foundation suited for subsequent graduate and professional studies. Teaching undergraduate students in this broad, interdisciplinary field can be challenging. Integrating instructional techniques from the natural and social sciences, encouraging scientific exploration, and engaging students in research requires careful consideration and a degree of creativity.
We invite theoretical, practical, and data-driven papers for this Special Issue of Brain Sciences that demonstrate innovative pedagogical practices employed in the teaching of neuroscience at the undergraduate level.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Teaching research methods in neuroscience
- Engaging, hands-on activities
- Study abroad courses
- Internship experiences
- Engaging students outside the classroom
- Engaging students in the research laboratory setting
- Bridging the gap in knowledge for students from different disciplines
- Approaches to dispelling “neuromyths”
- Incorporating cross-discipline teaching within a course
Dr. Lynda Sharrett
Dr. Mark Prendergast
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neuroscience pedagogy
- education
- active learning
- problem-base learning
- instrumentation
- laboratories
- evidence-base learning
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