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

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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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  1. Department General Education, Faculty of Teaching and Learning, Mount Royal University, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary, AB, T3E 6K6, Canada

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  2. Department of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Centre for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTAL), University of Alberta, 7-104 Education North, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5, Canada

    Stephen P. Norris

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Reid, G., Norris, S.P. Scientific media education in the classroom and beyond: a research agenda for the next decade. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 11, 147–166 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-015-9709-1

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