Reflections on Popular Science in Britain: Genres, Categories, and Historians

O’Connor, Ralph

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“…The aspiration to enact change in visitor's habits and engagement led to a shift in museology, aiming at turning visitors' attitudes from "cultural consumption to cultural Serious games production". This was initially the base philosophy of an initiative that originated in the UK, which was aimed at developing cultural and creative industries (O'Connor, 2009). This underpinning philosophy draws on a model suggested by Lash and Urry (1994), which proposes that cultural production has moved from being marginal or exceptional to a role as a template at the cutting edge of a post-modernist society.…”

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Matching serious games with museum’s educational roles: smart education in practice

Wang¹,

Nunes²

2019

ITSE

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Purpose This study aims to present a meta-analysis of the use of serious educational games in museums. The analysis is based on a critical literature review that maps educational roles of museums against serious educational games used in support of those roles. The meta-analysis focuses on the specific context of informal learning in museums. Design/methodology/approach The research design presented in this study is based on a meta-analysis research design that consists of a critical literature review, a multi-matrix representation of findings of the literature review and a conceptual visualization of the multidisciplinary area of the usage of serious games in support of educational roles in museums. Findings Clear and detailed categorizations of educational roles and serious games types for informal learning are presented. These are followed by matching these educational roles with published reports of the use of serious games within museums. The study concludes with observations and a conceptual map of the design of serious games for museums. Originality/value This study presents the first meta-analysis of research in this emergent multidisciplinary field. It will help serious game designers, museum educators and educational practitioners to make decisions regarding the choice of game type, customization and content design to support informal learning in the specific context of museum educational activities.

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Matching serious games with museum’s educational roles: smart education in practice

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Nunes²

2019

ITSE

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“…6 Yet as O'Connor has argued, the term "popular science" itself has always been a vague category that cannot by itself do serious analytical work, but can be useful to convey a specific subject area without implying a single model for the diffusion of knowledge. 7 Indeed, Secord's phrase "knowledge in transit" is also a vague category that cannot support much analysis by itself.…”

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Popularizing Astronomy in the German Free Religious Movement, 1851–1852

Ramberg

2016

Journal for the History of Astronomy

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In 1851 and 1852, the Halle schoolteacher H. Weißgerber published a series of eight articles in the journal Neue Reform, zur Förderung der Religion der Menschlichkeit, a prominent journal of the German Free Religious movement. In these essays, Weißgerber took his readers on a tour of the structure and origin of the solar system and the Milky Way, but also took every opportunity to show how the results of modern astronomy made traditional religion obsolete. This essay summarizes the content of Weißgerber’s articles and its relationship to the Free Religious movement, and briefly places them in the context of other works in popular astronomy in Germany and Great Britain.

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“…On the nearly thirty-year-old ongoing debate, see Topham 2009. Here I shall be using the historical phrase (or, “umbrella label”) “popular science” which, like “popularization of science,” handled correctly may serve as a useful tool of communication within the history and sociology of science, technology, and medicine, as well as with other disciplines, not to mention scientists, students, and the lay public (Govoni [2002] 2011, 20–21; Lightman 2007, 9–10; O'Connor 2009, 333). At present our knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth centuries Italian popular science is limited to its “top-down” manifestations: literature produced by the experts and professional scientists involved in exposing science to a lay public.…”

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The Power of Weak Competitors: Women Scholars, “Popular Science,” and the Building of a Scientific Community in Italy, 1860s-1930s

Govoni¹

2013

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ArgumentThe history of Italian “popular science” publishing from the 1860s to the 1930s provides the context to explore three phenomena: the building of a scientific community, the entering of women into higher education, and (male) scientists’ reaction to women in science. The careers of Evangelina Bottero (1859–1950) and Carolina Magistrelli (1857–1939), science writers and teachers in an institute of higher education, offer hints towards an understanding of those interrelated macro phenomena. The dialogue between a case study and the general context in a comparative perspective will help us understand why Italian scientists, in the last decades of the nineteenth century, unlike their British colleagues, did not close the doors of the university on women. The case confirms the history of so-called popular science as a useful tool for historians of science generally and also when dealing with the awakening of a new social actor: in this case the “new woman” who, from the 1870s, was determined to take up science in a professional capacity.

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Reflections on Popular Science in Britain: Genres, Categories, and Historians

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Matching serious games with museum’s educational roles: smart education in practice

Matching serious games with museum’s educational roles: smart education in practice

Popularizing Astronomy in the German Free Religious Movement, 1851–1852

The Power of Weak Competitors: Women Scholars, “Popular Science,” and the Building of a Scientific Community in Italy, 1860s-1930s

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