The Role of scientific popularization activities in promoting scientific literacy
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Several social debates related to environmental and health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, have raised major concerns about misinformation and science denialism. Therefore, there is a need for public understanding of how science works and to promote scientific literacy in non-formal education contexts. Integrated in Higher Professional Education study cycle we developed a course that intended to enable students to plan, implement and evaluate scientific popularization activities for children and young people. This experience revealed that students acquired more mature ideas about the purposes and the relevance of popularization of science; and developed knowledge and skills to operationalize it.
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