How Youth Use Scientific Argumentation in Civic Participation on Climate Change: Polar Bears, the Great Barrier Reef, and 'Your Job as President'

Autor/inn/en	Zummo, Lynne; Gargroetzi, Emma; Garcia, Antero
Titel	How Youth Use Scientific Argumentation in Civic Participation on Climate Change: Polar Bears, the Great Barrier Reef, and 'Your Job as President'
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 11 (2021) 4, S.362-377 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zummo, Lynne) ORCID (Gargroetzi, Emma) ORCID (Garcia, Antero)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2154-8455
DOI	10.1080/21548455.2021.2010830
Schlagwörter	Civics; Citizen Participation; Science Education; Scientific Concepts; Science Process Skills; Student Participation; Youth; Activism; Climate; Ethics; Letters (Correspondence); Presidents; Persuasive Discourse; Discourse Analysis; Logical Thinking; Empathy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerkunde; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Klima; Ethik; Brief; President; Präsident; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Diskursanalyse; Empathie
Abstract	Civic engagement that leverages scientific concepts and reasoning is cited as a goal of science education, yet little research has attended to authentic enactments of science-related civic engagement that youth undertake currently. We shed light on this understudied area by investigating youth letters written to the (then unknown) future US president in 2016. Using qualitative text analysis, we examined youth scientific reasoning via argumentation about climate change, aiming to clarify how youth use science in conjunction with other forms of reasoning within civic engagement, specifically around two popular icons of climate change--polar bears and the Great Barrier Reef. We describe several observed trends including a high frequency of logical appeals and their co-occurrence with implicit ethical appeals. We use these findings to offer implications for science education research and practice, suggesting explicit attention to the role of morals, ethics, and politics in science-related civic engagement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01