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Scientific media education in the classroom and beyond: a research agenda for the next decade

Authors: Grace Reid, Stephen P. Norris

Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education | Issue 1/2016

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Scientific media education is the ability to draw on a knowledge of the media and science, in order to choose, understand, evaluate, and respond to representations of science across diverse media genres. We begin this manuscript by reviewing research that shows scientific media education is one of the most important content areas that could be taught in and out of the science classroom. We then set out to identify a research agenda that will help make scientific media education a key content area in both formal and informal science learning environments. In particular, we identified research avenues that will allow us to better understand: (1) limitations in current practices of scientific media education; (2) what scientific media education should look like in the future; and (3) ways we might overcome barriers to implementing a new and improved scientific media education.

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Title: Scientific media education in the classroom and beyond: a research agenda for the next decade
Authors: Grace Reid
Stephen P. Norris
Publication date: 13-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1871-1502
Electronic ISSN: 1871-1510
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-015-9709-1

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