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Essays and illustrations provide basic knowledge about a variety of scientific topics.
Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9780195219180
Essays and illustrations provide basic knowledge about a variety of scientific topics.
Author : Leon L. Bram
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : 9780834300910
Author :
Publisher : DK Children
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780756622206
Contains more than 200 highly illustrated entries that provide information about a range of science topics grouped in twelve subject areas, with charts, statistics, sidebars, and brief biographies.
Author : Susanna Hornig Priest
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1412959209
The explosion of scientific information is exacerbating the information gap between richer/poorer, educated/less-educated publics. The proliferation of media technology and the popularity of the Internet help some keep up with these developments but also make it more likely others fall further behind. This is taking place in a globalizing economy and society that further complicates the division between information haves and have-nots and compounds the challenge of communicating about emerging science and technology to increasingly diverse audiences. Journalism about science and technology must fill this gap, yet journalists and journalism students themselves struggle to keep abreast of contemporary scientific developments. Scientist - aided by public relations and public information professionals - must get their stories out, not only to other scientists but also to broader public audiences. Funding agencies increasingly expect their grantees to engage in outreach and education, and such activity can be seen as both a survival strategy and an ethical imperative for taxpayer-supported, university-based research. Science communication, often in new forms, must expand to meet all these needs. Providing a comprehensive introduction to students, professionals and scholars in this area is a unique challenge because practitioners in these fields must grasp both the principles of science and the principles of science communication while understanding the social contexts of each. For this reason, science journalism and science communication are often addressed only in advanced undergraduate or graduate specialty courses rather than covered exhaustively in lower-division courses. Even so, those entering the field rarely will have a comprehensive background in both science and communication studies. This circumstance underscores the importance of compiling useful reference materials. The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication presents resources and strategies for science communicators, including theoretical material and background on recent controversies and key institutional actors and sources. Science communicators need to understand more than how to interpret scientific facts and conclusions; they need to understand basic elements of the politics, sociology, and philosophy of science, as well as relevant media and communication theory, principles of risk communication, new trends, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of science communication programmes, to mention just a few of the major challenges. This work will help to develop and enhance such understanding as it addresses these challenges and more. Topics covered include: advocacy, policy, and research organizations environmental and health communication philosophy of science media theory and science communication informal science education science journalism as a profession risk communication theory public understanding of science pseudo-science in the news special problems in reporting science and technology science communication ethics.
Author : World Book, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780716633969
An eight-volume reference set which explores many aspects of science, including sections on career opportunities pertaining to various fields of science.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : K. Lee Lerner
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2003-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780787675547
Contains color-illustrated, cross-referenced, alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on topics from all major areas of science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and the medical and health sciences, and includes a comprehensive index.
Author : Norbert M. Seel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 3643 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441914277
Over the past century, educational psychologists and researchers have posited many theories to explain how individuals learn, i.e. how they acquire, organize and deploy knowledge and skills. The 20th century can be considered the century of psychology on learning and related fields of interest (such as motivation, cognition, metacognition etc.) and it is fascinating to see the various mainstreams of learning, remembered and forgotten over the 20th century and note that basic assumptions of early theories survived several paradigm shifts of psychology and epistemology. Beyond folk psychology and its naïve theories of learning, psychological learning theories can be grouped into some basic categories, such as behaviorist learning theories, connectionist learning theories, cognitive learning theories, constructivist learning theories, and social learning theories. Learning theories are not limited to psychology and related fields of interest but rather we can find the topic of learning in various disciplines, such as philosophy and epistemology, education, information science, biology, and – as a result of the emergence of computer technologies – especially also in the field of computer sciences and artificial intelligence. As a consequence, machine learning struck a chord in the 1980s and became an important field of the learning sciences in general. As the learning sciences became more specialized and complex, the various fields of interest were widely spread and separated from each other; as a consequence, even presently, there is no comprehensive overview of the sciences of learning or the central theoretical concepts and vocabulary on which researchers rely. The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the specific terms mostly used in the sciences of learning and its related fields, including relevant areas of instruction, pedagogy, cognitive sciences, and especially machine learning and knowledge engineering. This modern compendium will be an indispensable source of information for scientists, educators, engineers, and technical staff active in all fields of learning. More specifically, the Encyclopedia provides fast access to the most relevant theoretical terms provides up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the most important theories within the various fields of the learning sciences and adjacent sciences and communication technologies; supplies clear and precise explanations of the theoretical terms, cross-references to related entries and up-to-date references to important research and publications. The Encyclopedia also contains biographical entries of individuals who have substantially contributed to the sciences of learning; the entries are written by a distinguished panel of researchers in the various fields of the learning sciences.
Author : Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Publisher : IGI Global Snippet
Page : 4292 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660264
"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Rachel Firth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2025-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781835404973
Why do things float? How do magnets work? What is gravity? The answers to these questions and more can be found in this fact-filled book. Simple, easy-to-read text and lively illustrations introduce basic science topics. Also includes fun science activities and exciting recommended websites.