PES & ISE
___ encompasses the vast majority of experiences people have with science across their lifetimes.
What is Informal Science Education (ISE)?
A science exhibit that includes multiple viewpoints but does not directly connect visitors with scientists uses this approach?
What is PES perspective?
This deliverable became especially important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
ISE practices informed by ___ focus on increasing publics' knowledge of scientific content and processes.
What is Public Understanding of Science (PUS)?
In informal science education (ISE), this term can refer to attention, interest, behavior, or learning - but has a much more specific meaning within PES
What is engagement?
Science cafés, forums, and blogs are examples of these PES structures that enable public-scientist interaction.
What are PES mechanisms?
This widely used community-engaged model—closely related to PES—invites citizens to contribute data, collaborate with researchers, or co‑create investigations.
What is participatory/citizen/community science?
A dialogue where audiences and scientists listen to and learn from one another
What is Public Engagement with Science (PES)?
The intersection of: civic institutions and public policy + formal science institutions and the scientific community + informal science education and its institutions
What is Public Engagement with Science (PES)?
PES mechanisms require real-time or asynchronous dialogue that leads to this kind of multi-directional learning.
What is mutual learning?
PES contributes to broader cultural change by strengthening this sense of shared societal responsibility
What is civic participation/responsibility/policy change?
Critics call PUS a "deficit model" because it assumes the public lacks ___.
What is knowledge?