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Can citizen science enhance public understanding of science? Open
Over the past 20 years, thousands of citizen science projects engaging millions of participants in collecting and/or processing data have sprung up around the world. Here we review documented outcomes from four categories of citizen scienc…
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Reconceptualizing nature‐of‐science education in the age of social media Open
Individuals are increasingly relying on social media as their primary source of scientific information. Science education needs to adapt. Nature of science (NOS) education is already widely accepted as essential to scientific literacy and …
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Bridging science education and science communication research Open
In some senses, both science education and science communication share common goals. Both seek to educate, entertain and engage the public with and about science. Somewhat surprisingly, given their common goals, they have evolved as dispar…
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Rethinking science communication as the social conversation around science Open
In this essay the authors reflect on some recent trends in science communication research, celebrating it as an inherently interdisciplinary endeavour. Some current tendencies in science communication are more limiting, however: they prese…
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Social justice and out‐of‐school science learning: Exploring equity in science television, science clubs and maker spaces Open
We cannot take access to equitable out-of-school science learning for granted. Data compiled in 2012 show that between a fifth (22% in Brazil) and half (52% in China and the United States) of people in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Mal…
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A better knowledge is possible: Transforming environmental science for justice and pluralism Open
This article offers a critical analysis of environmental science that develops the argument that science has itself become an obstacle for the transformations that are needed to ensure human-ecological well-being. Due to dominant norms and…
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The ‘Great Divide’: How the Arts Contribute to Science and Science Education Open
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in interest about the relationship between the arts and the sciences. This article explores this developing relationship and the suggestion that science and science learning are not complete w…
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Towards a Viable Response to COVID-19 from the Science Education Community Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched almost every corner of the planet and continues to impact on lives, livelihoods, economies and cultures. It is both a human and a global phenomenon. Making sense of what is happening requires an understand…
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Science communication and science in society: a conceptual review in ten keywords Open
: Originating in science outreach and influenced by social studies of science, science communication is now an established field of graduate education, of empirical and applied studies and of theoretical reflection. The establishment of th…
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Citizen Social Science: New and Established Approaches to Participation in Social Research Open
This chapter explores the ways in which the roles of citizens and researchers play out in the social sciences. This is expressed by numerous overlapping and related terms, such as co-production and participatory action research, to name bu…
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Teacher-Directed Versus Inquiry-Based Science Instruction: Investigating Links to Adolescent Students’ Science Dispositions Across 66 Countries Open
Teacher-directed and inquiry-based science instructional practices have been shown to influence students' performance on science assessments. However, only a small body of research has examined the associations of teacher-directed and inqu…
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Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016 Open
This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a representative range of research, the PRISMA proce…
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Identifying Relevant Anti-Science Perceptions to Improve Science-Based Communication: The Negative Perceptions of Science Scale Open
Science communicators and scholars have struggled to understand what appears to be increasingly frequent endorsement of a wide range of anti-science beliefs and a corresponding reduction of trust in science. A common explanation for this i…
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Science career aspiration and science capital in China and UK: a comparative study using PISA data Open
The concept of science capital has a growing influence in science education research for understanding young people’s science trajectories. Popularised in the UK, this paper aims to extend and evaluate the applicability of science capital …
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A question of dialogue? Reflections on how citizen science can enhance communication between science and society Open
Citizen science is a transdisciplinary approach that responds to the current science policy agenda: in terms of supporting open science, and by using a range of science communication instruments. In particular, it opens up scientific resea…
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Who aspires to be a scientist/who is allowed in science? Science identity as a lens to exploring the political dimension of the nature of science Open
Our purpose in this paper is to put forward an argument about both the need and the value for understanding how the constructs of science identity and the nature of science (NOS) might intersect and intertwine and offer useful insights abo…
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Environmental expertise for social transformation: roles and responsibilities for social science Open
What role should social science play in the work for transforming society towards sustainability? The background for this question is that despite massive investments in environmental research and the accumulation of data on the human impa…
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Nature of science in early years science teaching Open
The research field of science education has gathered questions about what science is, how scientific knowledge is developed and in what ways humans are involved in these processes under the umbrella concept ‘nature of science’ (NOS). Previ…
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Humanising the nature of science: an analysis of the science curriculum in Norway Open
If students are to acquire deep learning in science, they need to know about the nature of science (NOS), particularly not only the cognitive-epistemic but also the social-institutional aspects of NOS. In this paper, we investigate the con…
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Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: the body in digital environments and the arts Open
In this paper we examine methodological innovation in the social sciences through a focus on researching the body in digital environments. There are two strands to our argument as to why this is a useful site to explore methodological inno…
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Driving Forces of Students’ Choice in Specializing Science: A Science Education Context in the Philippines Perspective Open
Science Education plays a significant role in the country’s economic development. It brings technological advancement, promotes national wealth, and improves health and industry. In this context, the qualitative study explored the particip…
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International Journal of Social Science and Human Research Open
This research paper aims to examine the protection of human rights for Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the challenges they face and proposing recommendations for improvement. The objectives of this study are to exp…
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Unfinished Science in Museums: a push for critical science literacy Open
Communication of scientific knowledge has been caught up in a pedagogical struggle between science literacy ideologies. The backseat role taken by the teaching of the philosophical and sociological aspects of science has come under fire by…
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Open Science and the Science-Society Relationship Open
Nowadays, the prevailing trend in the science-society relationship is to engage with the broader public, which is beneficial for the public, scientific institutes, scientific findings, and the legitimacy of science as a whole. This article…
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Reimagining public science education: the role of lifelong free-choice learning Open
Profound changes are occurring in society, disrupting current systems and institutions; these disruptions also are affecting science education practice and research. Science learning is becoming a lifelong, self-directed process, dominated…
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Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators' sense‐making about the Next Generation Science Standards Open
The Next Generation Science Standards ( NGSS ), a reform effort “for states, by states,” advances ambitious ideals for elementary science teaching, but the fate of these ideals will depend in part on the engagement of state science coordin…
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Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties Open
Globally, calls for the improvement of science education are frequent and fervent. In parallel, the phenomenon of having Science Faculty with Education Specialties (SFES) within science departments appears to have grown in recent decades. …
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A comparative analysis of South African Life Sciences and Biology textbooks for inclusion of the nature of science Open
This study reports on the analysis of South African Life Sciences and Biology textbooks for the inclusion of the nature of science using a conceptual framework developed by Chiappetta, Fillman and Sethna (1991). In particular, we investiga…
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A Citizen’s Claim: Science With and for Society Open
Social science research has been attacked by neoliberal thinkers who allege that such research lacks economic objectives. In the face of neoliberal and positivist criteria for evaluating the social impact of social science inquiry, social …
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Promoting Coherent Science Instruction through Coherent Science Teacher Education: A Model Framework for Program Design Open
Recent research and reform efforts in science education have consistently stressed the importance of coherent science instruction, in which learning opportunities are connected and contextualized by meaningful phenomena, focus on a small s…