Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: Since its founding more than 10 years ago, CBE–Life Sciences Education (LSE) has become the go-to place for biology ed-ucation research and scholarship. Although the journal has always cultivated a broad range of authors, reviewers, and editors, we are pleased to announce that the Genetics Society of America (GSA) will be joining the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) as an editorial partner in support of the journal, while ASCB will remain the publisher of LSE. The challenge of improving science education, both na-tionally and internationally, is a critical priority and a long-standing focus for both ASCB and GSA. We feel that scientific societies such as ours have an essential role to play here be-cause together our collective expertise and energy can have a significant impact on science education across campuses and national boundaries (Alberts, 2012). Ironically, we live in a time when research science has never had so many opportunities or so many challenges. Plummet-ing budgets are one threat, but an even bigger challenge is the training of a skilled scientific workforce and a scientifically educated public. From K–12 to secondary to higher educa-tion and lifelong learning, science education is in desperate need of data-driven reform, reinvestment, and reinvigora-tion. ASCB and GSA believe that there is neither time nor room for flag planting and parochialism. Rather than remain-ing only in our own silos, we will be more effective together, so we must join forces now. Both GSA and ASCB have long promoted their own ed-ucational programs, but together we can synergize our ef-forts, where appropriate and feasible, to expand the knowl-edge base about the most effective approaches to teaching and learning in the life sciences. The majority of the articles
Source: CBE—Life Sciences Education
Authors: Stefano Bertuzzi, Adam P. Fagen
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2105251069