Maarten C. A. van der Sanden & Marc J. de Vries 
Science and Technology Education and Communication [PDF ebook] 
Seeking Synergy

Science & technology education on the one hand, and communication on the other, are, to a large extent, still separate worlds and many opportunities for synergy and cross-fertilisation are yet unused. This divide is unfortunate, since educators need communication skills and communicators often use aspects of education in their strategies. Moreover, innovation processes in both domains ask for education and communication insights and skills. Therefore, scholars and practitioners in both domains must seek connections and synergy by exchanging insights and ideas. This book discusses the shared aims of science & technology education and communication, such as science literacy and engagement, as well as common processes and challenges, such as social learning, social design and professionalisation, and assessment. Aims, processes, and challenges that inspire, enhance and deepen the education and communication synergy from a theoretical and practical side. If one reads the various chapters and reflects on them from one’s own perspective as a scholar or practitioner, the question is no longer if cross-fertilisation and synergy are needed, but when are we seriously going to take up this challenge together. This book aims to initiate the dialogue that the situation in the development of the topic requires at this point.

Spis treści

Preface; Science and Technology Education and Communication: Seeking the Connections; Section 1: Aims; Taking a Bicycle Ride into the Virtual with Simondon, Deleuze and Guattari; Crossing a Threshold; Motivating Engagement; A Cross Disciplinary Embodiment: Exploring the Impacts of Embedding Science Communication Principles in a Collaborative Learning Space; Section 2: Processes; Communication and Social Learning: The Significance of Silence; A Pedagogy to Educate Novices to Professionalize: On the Crossroad of Science and Technology Education and Communication; Innovation in Science and Technology Education and Communication through Design Thinking; RRI Bridges Science Education and Communication: The Innovator’s Perspective; Assessment; Collaboration of Science and Technology Education and Science and Technology Communication in the Context of Innovation in Science Education: The Case from the Engage Project.