Advancing Community Science Literacy

Autor/inn/en	Spitzer, William; Fraser, John
Titel	Advancing Community Science Literacy
Quelle	In: Journal of Museum Education, 45 (2020) 1, S.5-15 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Spitzer, William) ORCID (Fraser, John)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-8650
DOI	10.1080/10598650.2020.1720403
Schlagwörter	Museums; Scientific Literacy; Behavior Change; Cultural Capital; Climate; Environmental Education; Public Policy; Social Change; Social Capital; Social Status; Intervention; Citizen Participation; Informal Education; Case Studies; Capacity Building; Community Needs; Massachusetts (Boston); California (Long Beach) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Klima; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialkapital; Sozialer Status; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	Addressing complex global issues -- such as alterations in nutrient cycles, climate change, large-scale drought, widespread erosion, and new disease vectors -- require adaptive changes in our collective behavior and policies. To date, approaches to advancing science literacy to address such challenges have generally failed to produce sufficient changes in behavior at the necessary scale. We suggest that past interventions have come up short due to a primary focus on individual change, rather than change that results that accrue in the small groups that are a basis for affiliation, social and cultural capital, and the domain where impacts tend to be replicated by others. Importantly, these are the same communities where scientific literacies are negotiated and grown. The authors illustrate the unique authority and social position that museums hold to activate such small groups toward solutions at a civic scale capable of matching scale of action to need. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01