Acceptability of Neuroscientific Interventions in Education.
Researchers are increasingly applying neuroscience technologies that probe or manipulate the brain to improve educational outcomes. However, their use remains fraught with ethical controversies. Here, we investigate the acceptability of neuroscience applications to educational practice in two groups...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Aug2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=151767415&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 151767415 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13533452 GNI jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics issn: 13533452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2021 vid: 27 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 151767415 10.1007/s11948-021-00328-3 ppf: 1 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 848KB tig: atl: Acceptability of Neuroscientific Interventions in Education. aug: au: Schmied, A. Varma, S. Dubinsky, J. M. affil: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing & School of Psychology, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St SE, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA sug: keyword: Cognitive enhancement Educational neuroscience Neuroeducation Neuroethics tCDS ab: Researchers are increasingly applying neuroscience technologies that probe or manipulate the brain to improve educational outcomes. However, their use remains fraught with ethical controversies. Here, we investigate the acceptability of neuroscience applications to educational practice in two groups of young adults: those studying bioscience who will be driving future basic neuroscience research and technology transfer, and those studying education who will be choosing among neuroscience-derived applications for their students. Respondents rated the acceptability of six scenarios describing neuroscience applications to education spanning multiple methodologies, from neuroimaging to neuroactive drugs to brain stimulation. They did so from two perspectives (student, teacher) and for three recipient populations (low-achieving, high-achieving students, students with learning disabilities). Overall, the biosciences students were more favorable to all neuroscience applications than the education students. Scenarios that measured brain activity (i.e., EEG or fMRI) to assess or predict intellectual abilities were deemed more acceptable than manipulations of mental activity by drug use or stimulation techniques, which may violate body integrity. Enhancement up to the norm for low-achieving students and especially students with learning disabilities was more favorably viewed than enhancement beyond the norm for high-achieving students. Finally, respondents rated neuroscientific applications to be less acceptable when adopting the perspective of a teacher than that of a student. Future studies should go beyond the acceptability ratings collected here to delineate the role that concepts of access, equity, authenticity, agency and personal choice play in guiding respondents’ reasoning. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2021. All Rights Reserved. item: Science & Engineering Ethics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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