David Bloor and the Strong Programme

2010 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Finn Collin
Keyword(s):  
Strong Programme

Developing and evaluating the Teen-Strong life skills programme in Southern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Treenut Pummanee ◽  
Sopen Chunuan ◽  
Yacob G Tedla ◽  
Shutiwan Purinthrapibal ◽  
Nichara Chupon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Control Group ◽  
P Values ◽  
Sexual Behaviours ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Strong Programme

Summary Risk sexual behaviours are known as a threat to health and wellbeing of adolescents. Although there are standard sexual education curriculums in Thai schools, most schools use traditional teaching methods rather than participatory teaching activities. This study aimed to (i) develop ‘Teen-Strong’ programme by combining the concept of the World Health Organization’s life skills programme with Thai sexual education curriculum and (ii) investigate the association of Teen-Strong programme with knowledge and decision-making regarding risky sexual behaviours and teenage pregnancy in Thai adolescents. The Teen-Strong programme was developed by means of experts review and cognitive interviewing process and evaluated in 66 adolescents in Grades 7–9 from six schools in southern Thailand. Twenty-six students were assigned to the experimental group (attended Teen-Strong programme and standard sexual education) and 40 to the control group (attended only the standard sexual education). A pre–post-test quasi-experimental design was used and the Teen-Strong questionnaire (TSQ) was administered to measure knowledge and decision-making at three time points: before (T1), immediately after (T2) and 1 month after (T3) attending the programme. A 2 × 3 mixed-design ANOVA was used to analyse the data. TSQ scores in the experimental and control groups were higher at T2 and T3 as compared with T1. Mean increase in TSQ scores at T2 and T3 compared with T1 were significantly higher in the experiment than the control group [T2 vs. T1: t (64) = 4.07, p-values < 0.0001; T3 vs. T1: t (64) = 3.32, p-values = 0.017]. This study showed that Teen-Strong programme could increase adolescent’s knowledge and decision-making skills regarding risk sexual behaviours.

scholarly journals Social constructionism and climate science denial

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Ove Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Programme

Abstract It has been much debated whether epistemic relativism in academia, for instance in the form of social constructivism, the strong programme, deconstructionism, and postmodernism, has paved the way for the recent upsurge in science denial, in particular climate science denial. In order to provide an empirical basis for this discussion, an extensive search of the social science literature was performed. It showed that in the 1990s, climate science was a popular target among academic epistemic relativists. In particular, many STS scholars used it as an allegedly clear example of claims by natural scientists that should be treated as mere social constructions, rather than as reports on the actual state of the natural world. A few connections between social constructivists and corporate science denialism were also uncovered, but the extent of such connections could not be determined. With few exceptions, the stream of criticism of climate science from academic relativists has dwindled since the 1990s. One reason for this seems to be that the contrarian position lost its attraction when it became associated with corporate and right-wing propagandists.

Why airplanes fly: The Strong Programme and the theory of lift

Metascience ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Schatzberg
Keyword(s):  
Strong Programme
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