Developing Scientific Literacy: Using News Media in the by Ruth Jarman, Billy McClune

By Ruth Jarman, Billy McClune

""This is a superb resource of principles on utilizing the media to complement technological know-how instructing and have interaction students. It includes a number of principles on utilizing newspapers and different resources in technology and the way to inspire kids to learn them rigorously and critically." Prof Jerry Wellington, institution of schooling, collage of Sheffield, united kingdom "Throughout the booklet, the entire principles, content material, feedback and arguments are supported by means of in-depth learn and good referencing, making this an authoritative, but eminently readable, reference quantity for present and would-be secondary technological know-how teachers." university technology overview Science-related information tales have nice power as a source for instructing and studying approximately technology and its influence on society. through demonstrating the relevance of the topic in way of life, they could shape a precious bridge among the varsity school room and the ‘real world’. around the world, these advocating technology schooling reform tension the necessity to advertise ‘scientific literacy’ between children and usually this contains equipping scholars to severely interact with technological know-how reviews within the media. notwithstanding, little or no information exists when you desire to achieve this. constructing medical Literacy addresses this hole, delivering a much-needed framework for lecturers wishing to discover ‘science within the media’ in secondary colleges or schools. It indicates how academics throughout a couple of topic parts can collaborate to advertise between children an inherent ability and talent to interact thoughtfully with technological know-how within the media. Drawing on learn and improvement paintings, the authors: Describe key features of technological know-how information reporting speak about its strength as a source for educating and studying approximately technology and for constructing younger people’s criticality in admire of such studies establish acceptable tutorial goals and recommend actions wherein those may be accomplished This well timed e-book is a resource of necessary principles and insights for all secondary technological know-how academics. it is going to even be of curiosity to these with obligations for preliminary instructor education and carrying on with expert improvement.

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Who? What? When? Where? Perhaps Why? and How? 4 ‘Inverted pyramid’-style of reporting Although the 5W+H formula does not always apply in science-related news stories, they do nevertheless begin with the most important information. Following the intro or lead paragraph(s), the next few paragraphs (sometimes called ‘elaboration’) give additional or background information including statements from ‘sources’. These ‘quotes’ are presented, ostensibly, as word-for-word records of what the individual said.

In practice, of course, this notion of ‘balance’ is problematic in relation to science and particularly so in relation to unorthodox science. In the interests of ‘balanced reporting’ opposing opinions may be given equal weight, although one may represent the majority view of the scientific community and the other a minority or even solitary view. The reporting of risk will be discussed in Chapter 4. In reality, sensationalism is a tricky subject to pronounce on. Dornan (1999: 186) describes the notion as ‘obstinately difficult to engage in a rigorous fashion’: At what point does the journalistic labour of the science writer cease to be beneficial (by cultivating lay interest) and begin to detract from the overall goal (by obscuring scientific fact)?

The media thus provide a space where negotiation processes between science and society can be initiated (Felt 1993) This resonates powerfully with radical conceptualisations of scientific literacy. It should be noted, however, that the role of the news media can be theorised very differently from that portrayed earlier and opposition to the liberal pluralist position has been advanced from a number of different perspectives. Thus, for example, it is argued that the opinions of the powerful receive structural preference in the media and hence they become the ‘primary definers’ of media coverage.

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