Science of the People: Understanding and Using Science in Everyday Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780415644785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 236 str.

Joan Solomon

Opis

How do people understand science? How do they feel about science, how do they relate to it, what do they hope from it and what do they fear about it? Solomon explores these questions and much more.

Recenzje

"How do most people view science? Do they picture bushy-haired, mad researchers wielding strange machines and noxious chemicals, or do they see calm, knowledgeable people who make advances in technology and medicine for the good of society? Solomon, a UK academic, undertook to answer this question, one of great importance to science educators, by conducting in-depth interviews with the inhabitants of an unnamed small town in England she calls "Market Town."...Summing Up: Recommended"- C. G. Wood, formerly, Eastern Maine Community College, for CHOICE, August 2013

Spis treści

1. An Approach to Awareness  2. Publics for Science?  3. Science Literary?  4. About Questions and Answers  5. "What are you Interests in Science?"  6. How the Groups Link Up  7. Talking, Talking  8. Outrageous Fortune  9. Ethics and Action  10. Risk  11. Interpretation and Change  12. Scientific Literacy in Post-Modern Space and Time

O autorze

Joan Solomon was Professor at the Open University, King's College London and the University of Plymouth.