Mayes Robert, Dauer Joseph, Owens David
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, United States.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Quant Plant Biol. 2023 Jul 31;4:e8. doi: 10.1017/qpb.2023.8. eCollection 2023.
The United States National Science and Technology Council has made a call for improving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education at the convergence of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The National Science Foundation (NSF) views as the merging of ideas, approaches, and technologies from widely diverse fields of knowledge to stimulate innovation and discovery. Teaching convergency requires moving to the transdisciplinary level of integration where there is deep integration of skills, disciplines, and knowledge to solve a challenging real-world problem. Here we present a summary on convergence and transdisciplinary teaching. We then provide examples of convergence and transdisciplinary teaching in plant biology, and conclude by discussing limitations to contemporary conceptions of convergency and transdisciplinary STEM.
美国国家科学技术委员会呼吁在科学、技术、工程和数学的交叉领域改善STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）教育。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）将其视为来自广泛不同知识领域的思想、方法和技术的融合，以促进创新和发现。教授融合需要提升到跨学科的整合层面，即技能、学科和知识进行深度整合以解决具有挑战性的现实世界问题。在此，我们对融合与跨学科教学进行总结。然后，我们提供植物生物学中融合与跨学科教学的实例，并通过讨论当代融合与跨学科STEM概念的局限性来得出结论。
