New concepts of science and medicine in science and technology studies and their relevance to science education

Science education often adopts a narrow view of science that assumes the lay public is ignorant, which seemingly justifies a science education limited to a promotional narrative of progress in the form of scientific knowledge void of meaningful social context. We propose that to prepare students as...

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Main Authors: Hsiu-Yun Wang, Joel F. Stocker, Daiwie Fu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-02-01
Series:Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X11001811