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      Evaluating a dialogue-based approach to teaching about values and policy in graduate transdisciplinary environmental science programs

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          This article discusses a formal evaluation of new curricular materials and activities designed to foster understanding of three key issues–expertise, risk, and sociopolitical constraints–related to values and policy in transdisciplinary environmental science. We begin by describing the three issues, along with current thinking about the most appropriate ways to address them in the context of transdisciplinary environmental science. We then describe how we created curricular materials and activities focusing on these three issues that could be tailored for use in a wide range of graduate environmental science programs. The curriculum was adapted by instructors for use in five graduate classes at two US universities, and we used a pre-test, post-test mixed methods design to evaluate its effects on students’ ethical reasoning about values and policy. The results of this evaluation suggest that our semi-structured, dialogue-based curriculum enhances student awareness of and reasoning about values and policy in environmental research. We close with several educational recommendations for transdisciplinary environmental science programs that are grounded in our experience with this curriculum.

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            The science of team science encompasses an amalgam of conceptual and methodologic strategies aimed at understanding and enhancing the outcomes of large-scale collaborative research and training programs. This field has emerged rapidly in recent years, largely in response to growing concerns about the cost effectiveness of public- and private-sector investments in team-based science and training initiatives. The distinctive boundaries and substantive concerns of this field, however, have remained difficult to discern. An important challenge for the field is to characterize the science of team science more clearly in terms of its major theoretical, methodologic, and translational concerns. The articles in this supplement address this challenge, especially in the context of designing, implementing, and evaluating cross-disciplinary research initiatives. This introductory article summarizes the major goals and organizing themes of the supplement, draws links between the constituent articles, and identifies new areas of study within the science of team science.
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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                4 September 2018
                2018
                : 13
                : 9
                : e0202948
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
                [2 ] Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America
                [3 ] Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
                [4 ] AgBioResearch, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
                [5 ] Center for Interdisciplinarity, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
                University of Toronto, Rotman School, CANADA
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7743-2106
                Article
                PONE-D-17-30479
                10.1371/journal.pone.0202948
                6122781
                30180190
                d3092689-544c-4da1-8230-d399cf98f524
                © 2018 Hall et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 17 August 2017
                : 13 August 2018
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                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001, National Science Foundation;
                Award ID: SBE-1338614
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                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001, National Science Foundation;
                Award ID: SBE-1338626
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                This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. SBE-1338614 and SBE-1338626. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. O’Rourke’s work on this paper was also supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hatch Project No. MICL02261. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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