RT Journal Article
T1 Educating in antimicrobial resistance awareness: adaptation of the Small World Initiative program to service-learning.
A1 Valderrama Conde, María José
A1 González Zorn, Bruno
A1 Calvo De Pablo, Pilar
A1 Díez Orejas, Rosalía María
A1 Fernández-Acero Bascones, Teresa
A1 Gil Serna, Jessica
A1 Juan Ferré, Lucía De
A1 Martín Brieva, Humberto
A1 Molina Martín, María
A1 Navarro García, Federico
A1 Patiño Álvarez, Aurora Belén
A1 Pla Alonso, Jesús
A1 Prieto, Daniel
A1 Rodríguez Fernández, Carmina
A1 Román González, Elvira
A1 Sanz Santamaría, Ana Belén
A1 Silóniz Jiménez, María Isabel De
A1 Suárez Rodríguez, Mónica
A1 Vázquez Estévez, María Covadonga Inmaculada
A1 Jiménez Cid, Víctor
AB The Small World Initiative (SWI) and Tiny Earth are a consolidated and successful education programs rooted in the USA that tackle the antibiotic crisis by a crowdsourcing strategy. Based on active learning, it challenges young students to discover novel bioactive-producing microorganisms from environmental soil samples. Besides its pedagogical efficiency to impart microbiology content in academic curricula, SWI promotes vocations in research and development in Experimental Sciences and, at the same time, disseminates the antibiotic awareness guidelines of the World Health Organization. We have adapted the SWI program to the Spanish academic environment by a pioneering hierarchic strategy based on service-learning that involves two education levels (higher education and high school) with different degrees of responsibility. Throughout the academic year, 23 SWI teams, each consisting of 3-7 undergraduate students led by one faculty member, coordinated off-campus programs in 22 local high schools, involving 597 high school students as researchers. Post-survey-based evaluation of the program reveals a satisfactory achievement of goals: acquiring scientific abilities and general or personal competences by university students, as well as promoting academic decisions to inspire vocations for science- and technology-oriented degrees in younger students, and successfully communicating scientific culture in antimicrobial resistance to a young stratum of society.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 1574-6968
YR 2018
FD 2018-09-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13363
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13363
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 sept 2024