Science and technology have been incredibly success¬ful in purely technical terms. For instance, international air travel, space flight, and curing of hitherto untreatable medical illnesses all are now routine events. One feature of the incredible (and seemingly ever increasing) advance of science and technology is a sense of unease amongst the general population of science’s potential to change our lives, in sometimes unpredictable and alarming ways. Public understanding of science, or scientific literacy, is of increasing concern worldwide according to much recent literature
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Science and technology have been incredibly success¬ful in purely technical terms. For instance, int...
A holistic view of scientific literacy-related literature was generated based on bibliometric analys...
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Do scientists see conflict between science and faith? Which cultural factors shape the attitudes of ...
In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cul...
What does it mean to be scientifically literate? Historically, dominant understandings of scientific...
Science communication via testimony requires a certain level of trust. But in the context of ideolog...
Science and technology have been incredibly success¬ful in purely technical terms. For instance, int...
A holistic view of scientific literacy-related literature was generated based on bibliometric analys...
Scientific literacy is explored in this paper which describes two studies that seek to understand a ...
This talk presents findings related to our ongoing work investigating students’ knowledge and attitu...
International audienceIn this article, we examine the mental processes and representations that are ...
Modern society facing the necessity of dealing with global warming, estimating the consequences of r...
The science education literature suggests that the public and students often hold narrow stereotypic...
The late 20th century and beginning of 21st century have witnessed unprecedented rapid economic deve...
In modern societies, science is central to governance and democratic involvement. Without understand...
Scientific methods are now considered to be so fundamental to modern science that some people, esp...
This article critically challenges the view that there is a need for what is, essentially, a relativ...
Do scientists see conflict between science and faith? Which cultural factors shape the attitudes of ...
In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cul...
What does it mean to be scientifically literate? Historically, dominant understandings of scientific...
Science communication via testimony requires a certain level of trust. But in the context of ideolog...