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ERIC Number: EJ1264484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0046-1520
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Individual Truth Judgments or Purposeful, Collective Sensemaking? Rethinking Science Education's Response to the Post-Truth Era
Feinstein, Noah Weeth; Waddington, David Isaac
Educational Psychologist, v55 n3 p155-166 2020
Science education is likely to respond to the post-truth era by focusing on how science education can help individuals use scientists' epistemological tools to tell what is true. This strategy, by itself, is inadequate for three reasons. First, science does not actually offer foundational truth, and incautious assertions about scientific truth can make the problems of the post-truth era worse. Second, scientific knowledge offers only part of the solution to personal and policy problems and must be reconstructed in context. Third, people think about and act on science in social context--both "as" members of their social and cultural groups and "with" other members of those groups. Taken together, these arguments suggest that we should be focusing on a different question: How can science education help people work together to make appropriate use of science in social context?
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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