Transdisciplinary Science Education Research and Practice: Opportunities for GER in a Developing STEM Discipline-Based Education Research Alliance (DBER-A)

摘要

Each science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) discipline has developed a rich, ongoing program of education research and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Recent interest in connecting separate threads offers some excitíng opportunities. In an effort to clearly communicate the new opportunities for science education and practice, we present ideas, implications, and foundational basis without the familiar citations that provide attribution in the surrounding text. Instead, we provide a reference list at the end that is organized by section for the reader to peruse the primary resources and other commentaries that help support the intellectual foundation of this editorial. We consider the opportunity for science education research and practice broadly, the intellectual opportunities available from outside geoscience education research (GER), the value of GER to the broader program, and finally thoughts on next steps.