Journal of Science Education in Japan
Online ISSN : 2188-5338
Print ISSN : 0386-4553
ISSN-L : 0386-4553
Doing Science Communication at School : Networking and Localization of Learning
Arifumi YOSHIOKA
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2007 Volume 31 Issue 4 Pages 391-399

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Doing Science Communication at school is an innovation from traditional science education to a mutual lifelong science learning. In concrete terms, innovations are needed in the learning community and the participation model. In this model the roles of teachers are to be partners with students in the study of science and to be cultural mediators. To design this learning environment, teachers ought to link students with other kinds of scientific communities outside the school, and create a scientific community at school to carry out cultural and integrated practice while also reconstruct both. That is, there is a need to Network and Localize scientific learning at the same time. For this purpose, the role of the school library needs to be reconsidered. The school library can be a node of various kinds of cultures, a good device to embody the learning community and the participation model, to carry over the history of learning, and to be able to access information at any time.
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