Engaging or Transmitting? Health at the Science Centre
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Engaging or Transmitting? Health at the Science Centre. / Sandholdt, Catharina Thiel; Achiam, Marianne.
I: Nordisk Museologi, Bind 2018, Nr. 2-3, 2018, s. 136-151.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging or Transmitting?
T2 - Health at the Science Centre
AU - Sandholdt, Catharina Thiel
AU - Achiam, Marianne
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Science centres have a strong commitment to education, but the implications of that commitment change over time. The discovery pedagogy of the first science centres is gradually being replaced with a more dialogic approach that acknowledges that science has different meanings for different people. Here, we follow the transition of a Danish science centre towards this new approach; a transition driven by the development of a dialogic exhibition on health. To this end, we study the adaptive transformation of scientific content from its origin in scientific literature to its embodiment in the exhibition, using discourse analysis to track its deconstruction and reconstruction. We observe that although the science centre’s established discovery pedagogy does challenge the implementation of dialogic perspectives on health, the participatory approach taken in the development process successfully overcame these challenges. In conclusion, we offer our perspectives on the implications of our findings for science centres.
AB - Science centres have a strong commitment to education, but the implications of that commitment change over time. The discovery pedagogy of the first science centres is gradually being replaced with a more dialogic approach that acknowledges that science has different meanings for different people. Here, we follow the transition of a Danish science centre towards this new approach; a transition driven by the development of a dialogic exhibition on health. To this end, we study the adaptive transformation of scientific content from its origin in scientific literature to its embodiment in the exhibition, using discourse analysis to track its deconstruction and reconstruction. We observe that although the science centre’s established discovery pedagogy does challenge the implementation of dialogic perspectives on health, the participatory approach taken in the development process successfully overcame these challenges. In conclusion, we offer our perspectives on the implications of our findings for science centres.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Science Centre
KW - health promotion
KW - participatory design
KW - exhibition design
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2018
SP - 136
EP - 151
JO - Nordisk Museologi
JF - Nordisk Museologi
SN - 1103-8152
IS - 2-3
ER -
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