教育生物学:架起沟通生物医学与教育的桥梁

Bio-education:building a bridge between bio-medicine and education

人类的教育和学习以大脑的生理功能为基础,现代生物学、生理学、脑神经科学及认知科学的研究成果日新月异,将之应用到教育理论和实践中可以对教育起到极大的推动作用。教育生物学(bio-education)是生物科学与教育科学相融合的一门交叉学科,即从生物学、神经生理学、神经心理学、脑神经科学的角度研究人类教育现象及其一般规律的学科。教育生物学的研究对象是人,重点是处于接受教育和生长发育阶段的儿童和青少年个体及群体。教育生物学主要应用解剖学、细胞学、组织形态学、生理学、电生理学、生物化学、分子生物学、行为学、社会学、教育学及脑成像等方法研究人与人脑的教育发展规律,寻求最佳的教育方法和手段,促进多学科的合作。

Education and learning are profoundly based on the understanding of the physiological function of human brain and the fast development in modern biology, physiology, neurology and cognitive science greatly promotes the theory and practice of education . Bio-education is defined as a cross-disciplinary study which merges biological science with educational science, i.e., a study on human educational process and its general principle with reference to biology, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and brain science. The subjects of the study in bio-education are human beings, and in particular children and adolescents, who are in the stage of receiving education, fast growth and develop-ment. Methodologically, bio-education applies the research tools of anatomy, cytology, histomorphology, physiology, electrophysiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, behaviouristics, sociology, pedagogy, and brain imaging, etc., to study the law of development of human and human brains, to seek the best educational approaches and, to facilitate the teamwork between relevant disciplines.