Public Science Education: Some More Roles and Contributions

Abstract

In previous editorial (Lakhvich, 2021) we have discussed three comprehensive roles of Science Education, determining its contribution to our life: if briefly, (1) Science Education gives the methodology to digest facts via the experiment, reasoning, and discussion; (2) Science Education gives rise to the development of logics, problem-solving skills, complements the command of language, social communication and etc.; (3) Science Education develops specific person’s thinking skills involved in inquiry, experimentation, evidence evaluation, speculation argumentation, and finally, inference. In this issue we pursue the topic discussing two more roles the Science Education contributes to our life

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“…Among those answers involving conspiracy theories, citizen science communicators are somewhat more concerned with GMOs conspiracy theories than scientist science communicators on Zhihu. Some studies have also shown that conspiracy theories are more likely to spread among the public rather than among scientists (Gough et al, 2014;Lakhvich, 2021).…”

Interaction Effect of Gender, Across School-Type on Upper-Secondary Students’ Development of Experimental Reasoning on Organic Qualitative Analysis

“…Structural (constitutional) formulas which are used to visualize substances relate mostly to the visual (spatial, imaginary) type of thinking but not "purely abstraction" (Lakhvich, 2021). Symbolic presentation of chemical elements relates to abstraction.…”