Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions

被引:29
作者
Cooke, Julia [1 ]
Araya, Yoseph [1 ]
Bacon, Karen L. [2 ,3 ]
Bagniewska, Joanna M. [4 ]
Batty, Lesley C. [5 ]
Bishop, Tom R. [6 ,7 ]
Burns, Moya [8 ]
Charalambous, Magda [9 ]
Daversa, David R. [10 ]
Dougherty, Liam R. [10 ]
Dyson, Miranda [1 ]
Fisher, Adam M. [10 ]
Forman, Dan [11 ]
Garcia, Cristina [10 ]
Harney, Ewan [10 ]
Hesselberg, Thomas [12 ]
John, Elizabeth A. [13 ]
Knell, Robert J. [14 ]
Maseyk, Kadmiel [1 ]
Mauchline, Alice L. [15 ]
Peacock, Julie [2 ]
Pernetta, Angelo P. [16 ]
Pritchard, Jeremy [17 ]
Sutherland, William J. [18 ]
Thomas, Rebecca L. [19 ]
Tigar, Barbara [20 ]
Wheeler, Philip [1 ]
White, Rachel L. [16 ]
Worsfold, Nicholas T. [4 ]
Lewis, Zenobia [21 ]
机构
[1] Open Univ, Sch Environm Earth & Ecosyst Sci, Milton Keynes, Bucks, England
[2] Univ Leeds, Sch Geog, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England
[3] Natl Univ Ireland, Bot & Plant Sci, Martin Ryan Inst, Galway, Ireland
[4] Brunel Univ London, Dept Life Sci, Uxbridge, Middx, England
[5] Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[6] Univ Liverpool, Dept Earth Ocean & Ecol Sci, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
[7] Univ Pretoria, Dept Zool & Entomol, Pretoria, South Africa
[8] Univ Leicester, Sch Biol Sci, Coll Life Sci, Leicester, Leics, England
[9] Imperial Coll London, Dept Life Sci, London, England
[10] Univ Liverpool, Inst Integrat Biol, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
[11] Swansea Univ, Dept Biosci, Swansea, W Glam, Wales
[12] Univ Oxford, Dept Continuing Educ, Oxford, England
[13] Univ Lincoln, Coll Sci, Lincoln, England
[14] Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Biol & Chem Sci, London, England
[15] Univ Reading, Sch Agr Policy & Dev, Reading, Berks, England
[16] Univ Brighton, Ecol Conservat & Zoonosis Res & Enterprise Grp, Sch Pharm & Biomol Sci, Brighton, E Sussex, England
[17] Univ Birmingham, Sch Biosci, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[18] Univ Cambridge, Conservat Sci Grp, Dept Zool, Cambridge, England
[19] Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Biol Sci, Egham, Surrey, England
[20] Univ Cent Lancashire, Sch Forens & Appl Sci, Preston, Lancs, England
[21] Univ Liverpool, Sch Life Sci, Liverpool L69 7ZB, Merseyside, England
关键词
ecology; global challenges; horizon scan; teaching and learning; THREATEN BIODIVERSITY; STUDENT PERCEPTIONS; CLIMATE-CHANGE; FIELD TRIPS; LONG-TERM; BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; TIME; COMMUNITIES;
D O I
10.1111/oik.07847
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
We currently face significant, anthropogenic, global environmental challenges and the role of ecologists in mitigating these challenges is arguably more important than ever. Consequently there is an urgent need to recruit and train future generations of ecologists, both those whose main area is ecology, but also those involved in the geological, biological and environmental sciences. Here we present the results of a horizon scanning exercise that identified current and future challenges facing the teaching of ecology, through surveys of teachers, students and employers of ecologists. Key challenges identified were grouped in terms of the perspectives of three groups: students, for example the increasing disconnect between people and nature; teachers, for example the challenges associated with teaching the quantitative skills that are inherent to the study of ecology; and society, for example poor societal perceptions of the field of ecology. In addition to the challenges identified, we propose a number of solutions developed at a workshop by a team of ecology teaching experts, with supporting evidence of their potential to address many of the problems raised. These proposed solutions include developing living labs, teaching students to be ecological entrepreneurs and influencers, embedding skills-based learning and coding in the curriculum, an increased role for learned societies in teaching and learning, and using new technology to enhance fieldwork studies including virtual reality, artificial intelligence and real-time spoken language translation. Our findings are focused towards UK higher education, but they should be informative for students and teachers of a wide range of educational levels, policy makers and professional ecologists worldwide.
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