This special issue is focused on investigating the role of learners’ self-identification with disciplinary endeavors (e.g., science-related investigations, interpretations of historical events) in ...relation to the design of and their participation in learning environments. Over the past decade there has been a growing body of research focused on how learners’ ideas about themselves as social actors in activities mediate participation within and across learning environments and how the development of learners’ disciplinary identities can be a productive goal of educational interventions. In this work, the disciplinary identities of learners help explain how and why individuals engage within and across the learning environments they frequent. They also provide a window onto how learners and their compatriots locate and leverage resources for the ongoing pursuit of subject matter learning—in which youth attempt to engage in ongoing learning. It is important to note that this theoretical lens highlights how learning environments always have implicit or explicit goals with respect to disciplinary identification—and how learners take up, resist, transform, or are marginalized by those goals.
Insights from the past Turvey, Samuel T.; Saupe, Erin E.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences,
12/2019, Letnik:
374, Številka:
1788
Journal Article
Bridging senses Fisher, Simon E.; Tilot, Amanda K.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences,
12/2019, Letnik:
374, Številka:
1787
Journal Article
Single cell ecology Richards, Thomas A.; Massana, Ramon; Pagliara, Stefano ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences,
11/2019, Letnik:
374, Številka:
1786
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Cells are the building blocks of life, from single-celled microbes through to multi-cellular organisms. To understand a multitude of biological processes we need to understand how cells behave, how ...they interact with each other and how they respond to their environment. The use of new methodologies is changing the way we study cells allowing us to study them on minute scales and in unprecedented detail. These same methods are allowing researchers to begin to sample the vast diversity of microbes that dominate natural environments. The aim of this special issue is to bring together research and perspectives on the application of new approaches to understand the biological properties of cells, including how they interact with other biological entities.
This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Single cell ecology'.
Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain Walters, Edgar T.; de C. Williams, Amanda C.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences,
11/2019, Letnik:
374, Številka:
1785
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Our understanding of the biology of pain is limited by our ignorance about its evolution. We know little about how states in other species showing various degrees of apparent similarity to human pain ...states are related to human pain, or how the mechanisms essential for pain-related states evolved. Nevertheless, insights into the evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain are beginning to emerge from wide-ranging investigations of cellular mechanisms and behavioural responses linked to nociceptor activation, tissue injury, inflammation and the environmental context of these responses in diverse species. In February 2019, an unprecedented meeting on the evolution of pain hosted by the Royal Society brought together scientists from disparate fields who investigate nociception and pain-related behaviour in crustaceans, insects, leeches, gastropod and cephalopod molluscs, fish and mammals (primarily rodents and humans). Here, we identify evolutionary themes that connect these research efforts, including adaptive and maladaptive features of pain-related behavioural and neuronal alterations—some of which are quite general, and some that may apply primarily to humans. We also highlight major questions, including how pain should be defined, that need to be answered as we seek to understand the evolution of pain.
This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Evolution of mechanisms and behaviour important for pain'.
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