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  • Public participation and rural management of Brazilian waters: an alternative to the deficit model
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    The knowledge deficit model with regard to the public has been severely criticized in the sociology of the public perception of science. However, when dealing with public decisions regarding scientific matters, political and scientific institutions insist on defending the deficit model. The idea that only certified experts, or those with vast ... »
  • Popularization of Science in Brazil: getting onto the public agenda, but how?
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    The importance the Brazilian government has given in the last few years to the dissemination of science points out the necessity of a more discerning analysis about the establishment of this subject on the public agenda and the related public policies undertaken. This work tries to contribute to the debate as an inquiry about the policies to ... »
  • Changes in publication statistics when electronic submission was introduced in an international applied science journal
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In a refereed journal in the food and agriculture sector, papers were tracked over a five-year period during the introduction of electronic submissions. Papers originated in the Americas and Pacific region and were processed in Canada. Acceptance times for revised papers were reduced (P ... »
  • Experimenting mediation: a constant challenge
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    The Science House of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) is a space where science is approached through the perspective of culture, seeking interdisciplinarity, stimulating debate among different areas of knowledge, and building a closer and more pleasant relationship between society and scientific knowledge. Work with mediators has ... »
  • Mediation within science centres and museums. The guides of Universum, México
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    The creation of a scientific culture through the experiences that can be offered in a museum is the central theme in the training of guides at Universum. Emphasising the social importance of science democratisation, providing the public with the chance to enjoy science itself, conceiving it as a human creation of extreme beauty, giving it the ... »
  • The human body on Exhibit: promoting socio-cultural mediations in a science museum
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    This paper discusses three mediation concept approaches and, consequently, three facets of mediator action. The approaches presented start with a bibliographical review of the concept of mediation present in education and scientific communication studies. These approaches serve as a basis for interpreting a semi-directive interview with the ... »
  • Peer learning: a strategy for practical explainer training
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    Peer training provides Explainers with the knowledge, skills and confidence to facilitate high quality interactions with visitors. These are skills that carry into their academic, personal and professional lives. Explainers report better grades in school, improved communication skills and better understanding of diverse learning styles. By ... »
  • The “Learning in order to Teach” project and mediation in museums using Brazilian sign language (Libras)
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    This article seeks to reflect on mediation in museums based on experiences that occurred in the “Learning in order to Teach” Project. In this case, the mediation acquires specific characteristics because it deals with young deaf people learning art-related contents in order to teach other youth in their first language. The most interesting aspect ... »
  • Explainers – New energy for the museum
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    The Exploratorium explainer program is not only important to the young people involved, but is an integral part of the museum culture. This initiative that started to help the youth of our community has blossomed into a program that has been very helpful to the science centre. In fact, the institution would not be complete without the fresh energy ... »
  • How-to establish PCST. Two handbooks on science communication
    Date: 12/19/2008
    Resource Category: Mass Media Article
    In 2008 two collections were published: the Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, edited by Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench, and Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models, new practices, edited by Donghong Cheng and five other scholars from China, Canada, Belgium and Australia. These books try to define and draw ... »

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