Critiques And Contentions: Public Understanding of Science at The Crossroads  

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Miller, Steve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 10 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 115-120.
Fulltext: 115PUS101.pdf (103.93KB)

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With the publication of the House of Lords report “Science and Society” in the spring of 2000, public understanding of science in the United Kingdom is nowat something of a crossroads. After well over a decade of efforts to improve what has come to be known as “scientific literacy” among the general population— led by such organizations as the Committee on Public Understanding of Science (CoPUS)—surveys suggest that little has been achieved. But howare we nowto interpret this? Is it a failure by the scientific community to “get their message across?” Is the public just insufficiently interested in matters scientific? Or is it that the relationship between the public and scientists, and the dispersal and uptake of information, is more subtle than simple measurement models suppose? And how can the “new age,” as envisioned by their Lordships, be realized?

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