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Vaupotic, Nina; Kienhues, Dorothe; Jucks, Regina – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2022
Objective: We investigated how individuals deal with the limits of their own knowledge and productively cope with their dependence on experts as they engage with the socio-scientific topic of nuclear energy. We scrutinized the effects of content features of an interview text and of individuals' communicative engagement with the information read.…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Opinions, Beliefs, Adults
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Kapitza, Martina; Tueffers, Leif; Schulenburg, Hinrich; Kremer, Kerstin – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
Professional societies and institutes have stressed the importance of a dialogue between scientists and the public over the past decades. Especially the life sciences include many highly relevant research topics pertaining not only to scientific progress but also to decision-making in society. Surprisingly, few educational researchers and…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Diseases, Drug Therapy, Program Design
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Cahan, David – Annals of Science, 2010
This essay recounts Hermann von Helmholtz's trip to represent Germany at the International Electrical Congress in Chicago in 1893 as well as his reception by various members of the American scientific, technological, and cultural elite in several other American cities. In doing so, it seeks to portray something of the vitality of the youthful and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Perspective, Scientists, Reputation
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Presas i Puig, Albert – Annals of Science, 2008
The aim of this paper is to analyse the scientific relations between Germany and Spain during the Entente Boycott (1919-1926) and the German academic policy that fostered it. The study of the international relations of German science during the 1920s has been carried out using as a basis the archives of scientific institutions. Personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Relations, Scientists, Interprofessional Relationship
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Rodriguez, Ricardo R.; Sefton, Ann Jervie; Silbernagl, Stefan; Monos, Emil; Nayar, Usha; Bouman, Lennart N.; Baumann, Fritz; Das, Mandira; Lammers, Wim J. E. P.; Lanphear, J. H. – Advances in Physiology Education, 1998
Presents invited reports that express the personal views of physiologists on the historical influences of physiology education in their countries. Includes reports from Argentina, Australia, Germany, Hungary, India, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. (DDR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Medical Education, Physiology