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Who's Getting It Right and Who's Getting It Wrong in the Debate About Science Literacy?

This brings to light an interesting debate between those who believe that a lack of scientific literacy is the reason why scientific endeavors are often met with disapproval and misunderstanding and those who believe that a lack of public involvement and engagement in scientific issues and the use of resulting technology is the cause.

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literacy, debate, engagement, public, scientific
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Material Type:
Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:
March 18, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 5, 2017
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Kendra Weeks
Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution Hispanic Serving Institution
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College General Ed
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English
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CINTHIA ARRIAGA-HAGOPIAN
CINTHIA ARRIAGA-HAGOPIAN (Teacher (K-12))
13 years ago
This source offers a public perspective to science literacy. It has some very interesting insight.