Developing Capacities for Teaching Responsible Science in the MENA Region Refashioning Scientific Dialogue (2013) / Chapter Skim
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As science becomes an increasingly One of the exciting aspects of this "Century of global enterprise, a growing number of Biology" is the diffusion of research capacity and international scientific organizations have joined infrastructure to many parts of the world, the activities of national bodies to underscore creating an increasingly global life sciences the ethical imperatives for all involved in research enterprise. scientific research.
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The scope convened in Warsaw by several international and quality of education vary widely, but many scientific organizations and organized by the students still receive little or no exposure to U.S. National Academies and the Polish education about responsible conduct of research Academy of Sciences, to: in the United States, and the problem is worse in survey strategies and resources available other countries.
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improving education. One of the major The first phase centered on a planning recommendations was to create networks of meeting held at TWAS in late spring 2011 to faculty through train-the-trainer programs using design a general framework for educational active learning approaches drawn from the institutes for faculty based on the successful science of learning (a description of active model of the National Academies Summer learning techniques is in Chapter 3 of this Institute for Undergraduate Biology Education report)
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A small reunion in Amman, Jordan, the concepts and techniques fully and apply in April 2013 for the leaders of the teams that them during small group work. Future received grants enabled the participants to Institutes will benefit either by providing discuss their experiences up to that point, share more time to integrate active learning with their insights about the Institute, and consider new content or by reducing the breadth or how their efforts might continue at their both.
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Nonetheless, participants discussions with the participants who reiterated that the lack of a formal attended the reunion meeting in Amman, framework and infrastructure for research in practical realities such as the lack of basic their countries (e.g., the absence of scientific equipment, reliable Internet comprehensive policies and oversight connections, and access to scientific journals structures regarding authorship, peer impede scientists in this region, and review, research with laboratory animals and especially those from more impoverished human subjects, and biosafety) makes it nations, from undertaking research at a level difficult for scientists to follow international where dual use issues raise concerns for standards and to teach best practices in them.
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initiatives. However, as also occurs in the United States, limited funding restricted the ability of these Taken together, these insights offer motivated science educators to reach larger important lessons for the design and audiences who would benefit from implementation of future programs in the instruction on responsible science, biosafety, MENA region as well as in other parts of the and dual use issues.
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The project will be conducted in three phases: Phase I: Planning. The committee will organize and hold a planning meeting, which will bring together life science educators from the Middle East–North Africa region with leaders in dual use issues and science education.
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