{"id":8089,"date":"2015-11-19T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:40:25","slug":"in-the-classroom-broadening-students-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/11\/19\/in-the-classroom-broadening-students-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"In the classroom: Broadening students\u2019 minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A training programme is proposed to improve the interdisciplinary breadth and depth of a nanoscience research group.<\/h2>\n

\"Nature-nanotechnology\"<\/a>Nanotechnology requires expertise from a range of fields, but students often have difficulties thinking about research in an interdisciplinary manner. In the November issue of In the classroom<\/em>, Philip S. Lukeman (St. John\u2019s University, New York) and Stefan Howorka (University College, London) outline a three phase\u00a0training programme to help improve a student\u2019s interdisciplinary skills. The approach is based around the widely used idea of a \u2018journal club\u2019, but is set in the context of a group\u2019s interdisciplinary research and can be tailored to any specific topic. Experience with the training programme in Howorka\u2019s own research group suggests that it can help students in a variety of ways, and can also benefit research teams as a whole.<\/p>\n

Read Philip S. Lukeman and Stefan Howorka\u2019s article, Broadening students\u2019 minds<\/em><\/a>, for free on the Nature Nanotechnology<\/em> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nanotechnology requires expertise from a range of fields, but students often have difficulties thinking about research in an interdisciplinary manner. In the November issue of In the classroom, Philip S. Lukeman (St. John\u2019s University, New York) and Stefan Howorka (University College, London) outline a three phase\u00a0training programme to help improve a student\u2019s interdisciplinary skills. The approach is based around the widely used idea of a \u2018journal club\u2019, but is set in the context of a group\u2019s interdisciplinary research and can be tailored to any specific topic. Experience with the training programme in Howorka\u2019s own research group suggests that it can help students in a variety of ways, and can also benefit research teams as a whole.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[84655,1039,1037,84659,84657,837],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-nanotechnology","tag-in-the-classroom","tag-nanoscience","tag-nature-nanotechnology","tag-philip-lukeman","tag-stefan-howorka","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}