The Core Concepts of Physiology - A New Paradigm for Teaching Physiology

This book offers physiology teachers a new approach to teaching their subject that will lead to increased student understanding and retention of the most important ideas. By integrating the core concepts of physiology into individual courses and across the entire curriculum, it provides students with tools that will help them learn more easily and fully understand the physiology content they are asked to learn.  The authors present examples of how the core concepts can be used to teach individual topics, design learning resources, assess student understanding, and structure a physiology curriculum.

List of contents

Reforming science education/reforming physiology education.- What is the new paradigm and what is new about it?- What are the core concepts of physiology?- What does it mean to "unpack" a core concept?-  The "unpacked" core concept of homeostasis.- The "unpacked" core concept of flow down gradients.- The "unpacked" core concept of cell-cell communication.- Organizing an introductory physiology course based on core.- Teaching physiology using the new paradigm: three examples.- Using core concepts in physiology in designing learning resources.- Conceptual assessment of student learning.- Core concepts and the physiology curriculum.- Extending the paradigm.- Summing up.

About the author

Joel Michael

Rush Medical College

Chicago, IL

USA

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William Cliff

Niagara University

Lewiston, NY

USA

[e-mail] 
Jenny McFarland

Edmonds Community College

Lynnwood, WA

USA

[e-mail]
Harold Modell

Physiology Educational Research Consortium

Seattle, WA

USA

[e-mail]
Ann Wright (deceased)

Formerly at Canisius College

Buffalo, NY

USA

Summary

This book offers physiology teachers a new approach to teaching their subject that will lead to increased student understanding and retention of the most important ideas. By integrating the core concepts of physiology into individual courses and across the entire curriculum, it provides students with tools that will help them learn more easily and fully understand the physiology content they are asked to learn.  The authors present examples of how the core concepts can be used to teach individual topics, design learning resources, assess student understanding, and structure a physiology curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: Willia Cliff, William Cliff, Jenny McFarland, Jenny et a McFarland, Joe Michael, Joel Michael, Harold Modell, Ann Wright
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781493983353
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-8335-3
• No. of pages: 153
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 10 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 153 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; B, Medizin, allgemein, Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung, Zellbiologie (Zytologie), Fachspezifischer Unterricht, HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, Popular medicine & health, Medical education, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Teaching of a specific subject, Education—Curricula, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculums (Courses of study), Curriculum Studies, Cell Physiology