Brown, Adam - University of Ottawa - Department of Biology

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Science Education I have a few projects on the go for which I am accepting thesis students who wish to develop an expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning through the study of science education. An Etymological Approach to lexical access of scientific terminology As part of an ongoing project in collaboration with Dr. Giuliano Reis of the Faculty of Education at uOttawa, we are studying the factors surrounding the teaching and learning of specialized scientific terminology through an etymological approach, related to an understanding of the Greco-Roman roots of the science lexicon. This project aims to develop a greater understanding of the linguistic components to science learning and focusses on aspects related to cognitive and metacognitive processes of language learning, the morphological structure of scientific terminology and the auto-descriptive structure-function information encoded into the terms themselves. Please refer to this publication for more information: Brown, A.O. 2014. Lexical Access, Knowledge Transfer and Meaningful Learning of Scientific Terminology via an Etymological Approach. International Journal of Biology Education, 3: 1-12. Teaching Animal Behaviour through Exemplification In collaboration with Dr. Alan Oliveira, professor of science education at SUNY Albany (USA), we are working on a project that studies the effectiveness of teaching Animal Behaviour through a process known as exemplification, i.e. to teach fundamental principles and theories through a select use of specific examples. In the course of this project, we are analyzing pedagogy from in-class podcast recordings in order to develop typologies for example delivery that will help to better understand the parameters that will improve upon student learning and student experience. Please refer to this publication for more information: Oliveira, A.W. and A.O. Brown. 2016. Exemplification in Science Instruction: Teaching and Learning through Examples. Journal for Research in Science Teaching. 53: 737-767. Creating Holistic Science Teaching Methods for High School We have recently created a short online video blog on the Evolution of Biodiversity on planet earth, using a high school 400m running track as our template in order to provide a novel and engaging teaching tool for the sciences at the high school and CEGEP levels. This approach is meant to unify the various branches of science into a holistic instruction, rather than have them remain segregated into separate class instruction, hopefully leading to a better perspective development among students of science and to (among other goals) to improve upon their transition to university-level studies. We will be showing the video to high school/CEGEP students in Ottawa and surveying their reactions as part of an assessment to identify the potential for integrating this manner of instruction into science classes across the high school and CEGEP curriculum. You may view the pilot video online here: Tracking Life. The Public Communication of Science Increasingly, science student graduates are in positions to act as ambassadors on scientific issues of relevance to society, whether in their workplace, social environment or actively through online communications destined towards general audiences. The public communication of science, however, requires a different set of skills from those traditionally taught to undergraduate students of science and this project is one avenue for their development. This project will revolve around building communication maps of controversial science issues in society as a means by which we may learn from historical deficiencies in the communication of important science to the public. N.B. Bio4004 projects may be taken at the same time as BIO4009 projects as long as they are on different topics of specialization. See the BIO4004 page for more information.

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Oliveira, A.W., T. Bretzlaff and A.O. Brown. Under review. Memorable Exemplification in Undergraduate Biology. Oliveira, A.W. and A.O. Brown. 2016. Exemplification in Science Instruction: Teaching and Learning through Examples. Journal for Research in Science Teaching. 53: 737-767. Brown. A.O. 2014. Lexical access, knowledge transfer and meaningful learning of scientific terminology via an etymological approach. International Journal of Biology Education. 3: 1-12 Brown, A.O. The Biology Undergraduate Student's Guide to Success. Nelson Education. 56p, 2011 Brown, A.O. and J.N. McNeil. Pollination ecology of the high latitude, dioecious cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus: Rosaceae). American Journal of Botany. 96: 1096-1107, 2009 Brown, A.O. and J.N. McNeil. Fruit production in cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.): a bet-hedging strategy to optimize reproductive effort. American Journal of Botany. 93: 910-916, 2006 Pelletier, L., A. Brown, B. Otrysko and J.N. McNeil. Entomophily of the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus L.). Entomologia experimentalis et applicata. 101: 219-224, 2001