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Percezione e consapevolezza della scienza: dal dibattito tra gruppi all'indagine sui valori /Perception and awareness of science: from discussion inside groups to the survey on values (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio))

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Percezione e consapevolezza della scienza: dal dibattito tra gruppi all'indagine sui valori /Perception and awareness of science: from discussion inside groups to the survey on values (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio)) (literal)

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2006-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)

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Adriana Valente (2006)
Percezione e consapevolezza della scienza: dal dibattito tra gruppi all'indagine sui valori /Perception and awareness of science: from discussion inside groups to the survey on values
Biblink, Roma (Italia) in La scienza dagli esperti ai giovani e ritorno / Science: from specialists to students and back again, 2006
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La scienza dagli esperti ai giovani e ritorno / Science: from specialists to students and back again (literal)

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Percezione e consapevolezza della scienza: dal dibattito tra gruppi all'indagine sui valori /Perception and awareness of science: from discussion inside groups to the survey on values (literal)

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Sveva Avveduto; Martin W. Bauer; Maria Girolama Caruso; Loredana Cerbara; Andrea Cerroni; Sylvie Coyaud; Paul Docherty; Monica M. Grady; Luciana Libutti; Emanuela Reale; Adriana Valente; Riccardo Viale (literal)

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Abstract

The project Perception and Awareness of Science was carried out by CNR with the collaboration of the British Council and the Rosselli Foundation within the cycle of initiatives Ethics and Polemics, with the purpose of promoting a public debate between students, both at school and university, and experts on the scientific themes of general interest and to reduce the distance between youth and science. The communicative aspect of cience becomes particularly delicate if we are dealing with more than consolidated science but science in progress. This is the case in which the several scientific approaches, sometimes in conflict with each other, face one another and several cultural aspects interact with them. In this project we have tried to experiment with a path which is able to bring back the richness and complexity of the scientific debate and the themes and problems that have arisen from this within the public communication sphere of science. In doing so we wanted to avoid the tension between diverse opinions, sometimes conflicting, connatural to scientific thought apart from its evolution, being put aside, confined to debate between experts in the field. We believe, actually, that in order to simplify science communication it must be simplified in its language. Not in the removing of the critical, problematic and interdisciplinary components. Within this project three initiatives have been carried out, all on the themes of the future of science: The first one on the OGM, which took place in Bologna in 2002-2003; the second on the electro-magnetic waves (the so called electrosmog) in Rome in 2003-2004; the third on space exploration in Naples and Rome16 in 2004-2005. At this point in time an initiative on alternative medicine is underway, in collaboration with Roman universities and high schools. The two main phases foreseen of each initiative are: the structuring of the debate within the student groups and the completion of a survey on perceptions of science and its values. Each group coincides with a class and one or more professors play the role of a tutor. In the course of the project didactic material was given to all the classes, selected on the basis of different criteria but especially able to grant plurality of the scientific fonts. The speakers contacted for the day of the public debate were chosen because of the different points of view they hold on the subject and were able to present aspects of the different realities in Great Britain and in Italy. The groups under the guidance of their tutors went through the material given to them and started a study and discussion activity within their groups before taking part in the debate with the scientists, the experts in their field. The core of the debate within the groups constituted one of the elements characterizing the project: from the discussion and communication within the group, in fact, certain dynamics were established which gave birth to new knowledge like that described as tacit understanding or as 'collective wisdom' not necessarily expressed in a correct scientific language but such to allow the groups a more active participation in the debate with the experts. Before the beginning of the project and after the participation some questionnaires were handed out in order to collect the student's thoughts on the scientific themes, on the channels used to get closer to scientific information, the social political principles and the related scientific values involved. The questionnaires were dedicated for the major part to the comprehension of people's positions, especially young ones, on the nature and values of science more than understanding the position on this or that scientific fact or the acknowledgement of the general scientific level of knowledge of students. The analysis of the questionnaire given to all the groups before involving them in the project allowed us to understand the attitudes and the expectations towards science within articulated realities through the knowledge of the nature of modern science and its values, urging students to think over old and new university questions on scientific knowledge, the role of the market, the meaning to give to the precaution principle and the velocity of scientific progress. The results of the survey related to the first three initiatives of the project (OGM, electrosmog and space) are described in the three essays in the central part of the book. The analysis of the final questionnaires shows positive feedback from students. Participating in the project gave them more knowledge and, what is very interesting, more interest in science then undoubted faith. (literal)

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