scholarly journals Learning about the nature of science through the critical and reflective reading of news on the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio García-Carmona
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Models And Modelling ◽  
Educational Potential

AbstractThe global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to a plethora of information published in the media. Conceived as a socioscientific issue of great relevance currently, this article highlight the educational potential of some media news about the pandemic to reflect and learn about the nature of science (NOS). To this end, a theoretical foundation is first presented regarding the reading of science news published in the media as an educational resource to learn about NOS. Secondly, a proposal is presented on how this might be addressed in the science classroom. The proposal is illustrated by four news items, intentionally selected as examples, which have been published in the Spanish digital press. The aspects of NOS that are discussed in the context of the news items selected are: tentativeness of scientific knowledge, role of error in scientific research, role of debate in the development of science, importance of models and modelling in scientific research, and ethics in science.

The Motivation to Experiment: A Study of Gifted Adolescents' Attitudes toward Scientific Research

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rena F. Subotnik
Keyword(s):  
Science Classroom ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Controversy ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Moderate Amount ◽  
Talent Search ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Gifted Adolescents ◽  
Male Subjects

This study was designed to investigate some of the variables that characterize students who have achieved success in science. One hundred forty-six winners of the 1983 Westinghouse Science Talent Search completed a questionnaire exploring the subjects' views on the role of the scientist in society, images of self as scientist, personal motivations for conducting scientific research, qualities admired in scientific heroes or heroines, and how often teachers discussed interactions of science and society. Chi square and ANOVA analyses were employed with each of two independent variables: gender and area of science. Female subjects reported more concern with social impacts of scientific research, less variability in their self-image as a scientist, and a tendency to attribute success to hard work and dedication rather than intelligence or creativity than did male subjects. Over all, subjects identified curiosity as the primary impetus for research and indicated a moderate amount of exposure to scientific controversy in the secondary science classroom.

scholarly journals Communication Technologies of Media Sphere as the Basis for the Development of Legal Media Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
N. B. Kirillova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Educational Potential

The object of the research is the educational potential of the media sphere in the development and dissemination of legal culture and human rights culture in modern Russia. This is due to the strengthening of the role of the information factor in the formation of civil society. The purpose of the work is to consider the communication technologies of the media sphere as the basis for the transformation of legal culture into legal media culture.

scholarly journals Video and storytelling in a digital world: interactions and narratives in videoclips

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 459-476
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Oliva ◽  
José Bidarra ◽  
Denize Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Visual Languages ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Media

This paper presents a study about narratives in music videos. It discusses the arrangements of audio-visual languages from settings established by characteristics of the media, emphasizing the role of platforms for the diffusion of information and entertainment such as YouTube. It highlights a dialogue within cinema’s own language and shows that, in contemporary scenarios, music videos actually tell stories. It is argued that contemporary music videos, in great majority, increase the duration of music, with pauses, performances of characters, insertion of dialogues and other structuring elements that are not typical of the classic and conventional paradigms of a language. For our purposes, the objects of this study are the music videos of Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan. The theoretical foundation is established through authors involved in debates around a culture of convergence, transmedia storytelling and interactions among the audio-visual languages.

scholarly journals The role of scientific schools in the organization of native radiophysics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-177
Author(s):  
Vasily V. Kudryavtsev ◽  
Galina M. Chulkova
Keyword(s):  
Physical Science ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Scientific Schools ◽  
The Creation

The article describes the scientific-school approach as a method of historical and scientificresearch. The value of the scientific-school approach in relation to the study of domesticscience is revealed. Based on the consideration of new «dimensions» (or aspects) ofscience, a researcher can get a panoramic picture of its development in a scientifically-substantive,scientific-organizational, scientific-educational, personal-psychological and sociocultural«dimensions». A brief historical review is given, fixing some important milestones onthe path to the formation of the first Soviet scientific schools in physics. These schools played a fundamental role in the organization and development of physical science in our countryafter the October Revolution. The reasons for the loss of the role of scientific schools in the organizationof modern scientific research abroad are discussed. It is shown that the evolutionof Russian radiophysics is closely related to the activities of a number of scientific schools.Various «roles» of scientific schools that they played in the emergence of native radiophysics,the creation of its theoretical foundation, the formation of new areas of radiophysical research,the development of information transfer technologies, military technologies with a significantradiophysical component, the formation of modern educational and scientific radiophysicalcenters are examined. These «roles» may be useful in organizing research in our country.

MEDIA SOCIALIZATION OF PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF INMUTATION IN THE MASS MEDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Chernysh O.O.
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

The urgency of the researched problem is connected with the growing role of mass media in modern conditions leads to change of values and transformation of identity of the person. The active growth of the role of the media, their influence on the formation and development of personality leads to the concept of “media socialization” and immutation in the media. The aim of the study is to outline the possibilities of the process of media socialization in the context of immutation in the media. The methods of our research are: analysis of pedagogical, psychological, literature, synthesis, comparison, generalization. The article analyzes the views of domestic and foreign scientists on the problem of immutation in the media and the transformation of the information space. In the context of the mass nature of the immutation of society, the concept of “media socialization” becomes relevant, which is the basis for reducing the negative impact of the media on the individual.The author identifies the lack of a thorough study of the concept of “media socialization” in modern scientific thought. Thus, media socialization is associated with the transformation of traditional means of socialization, and is to assimilate and reproduce the social experience of mankind with the help of new media.The article analyzes the essence of the concepts “media space”, “mass media” and “immutation”. The influence of mass media on the formation and development of the modern personality is described in detail.The study concluded that it is necessary to form a media culture of the individual, to establish safe and effective interaction of young people with the modern media system, the formation of media awareness, media literacy and media competence in accordance with age and individual characteristics for successful media socialization. The role of state bodies in solving the problem of media socialization of the individual was also determined. It is determined that the process of formation of media culture in youth should take place at the level of traditional institutions of socialization of the individual.The author sees the prospect of further research in a detailed analysis and study of the potential of educational institutions as an institution and a means of counteracting the mass nature of the immutation of society.Key words: immutation, media socialization, mass media, media space, information.

A reconnaissance of tropical resources during Revolutionary years: the role of the Paris Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
MADELEINE LY-TIO-FANE
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Joseph Ii

SUMMARY The recent extensive literature on exploration and the resulting scientific advances has failed to highlight the contribution of Austrian enterprise to the study of natural history. The leading role of Joseph II among the neutral powers which assumed the carrying trade of the belligerents during the American War of Independence, furthered the development of collections for the Schönbrunn Park and Gardens which had been set up on scientific principles by his parents. On the conclusion of peace, Joseph entrusted to Professor Maerter a world-encompassing mission in the course of which the Chief Gardener Franz Boos and his assistant Georg Scholl travelled to South Africa to collect plants and animals. Boos pursued the mission to Isle de France and Bourbon (Mauritius and Reunion), conveyed by the then unknown Nicolas Baudin. He worked at the Jardin du Roi, Pamplemousses, with Nicolas Cere, or at Palma with Joseph Francois Charpentier de Cossigny. The linkage of Austrian and French horticultural expertise created a situation fraught with opportunities which were to lead Baudin to the forefront of exploration and scientific research as the century closed in the upheaval of the Revolutionary Wars.

Cartesian Fingerprints in Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-243
Author(s):  
Irit Degani-Raz
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Limiting Case

The idea that Beckett investigates in his works the limits of the media he uses has been widely discussed. In this article I examine the fiction Imagination Dead Imagine as a limiting case in Beckett's exploration of limits at large and the limits of the media he uses in particular. Imagination Dead Imagine is shown to be the self-reflexive act of an artist who imaginatively explores the limits of that ultimate medium – the artist's imagination itself. My central aim is to show that various types of structural homologies (at several levels of abstraction) can be discerned between this poetic exploration of the limits of imagination and Cartesian thought. The homologies indicated here transcend what might be termed as ‘Cartesian typical topics’ (such as the mind-body dualism, the cogito, rationalism versus empiricism, etc.). The most important homologies that are indicated here are those existing between the role of imagination in Descartes' thought - an issue that until only a few decades ago was quite neglected, even by Cartesian scholars - and Beckett's perception of imagination. I suggest the use of these homologies as a tool for tracing possible sources of inspiration for Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine.

The Role of The Students Association in The Promotion of Students' Speech Skills at The Khalid Bin Al Walid Institute at University of Muhammadiyah Mataram (ar)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Erwin Erwin ◽  
Nasarudin Nasarudin ◽  
Husnan Husnan
Keyword(s):  
Student Organizations ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Based ◽  
The University ◽  
Good Deeds ◽  
Speaking Skills

The purpose of this research is to explain the importance of the student organizations and describe their efforts to improve the speaking skills of students at the Mahad Khalid Bin Al Waleed at the University of Muhammadiyah Mataram. This research uses the qualitative approach with the descriptive type. The result shows the student organizations play an important role based on their objectives and functions. The objectives are to help the foundation and all parties in the Ma'had develop the students’ potential and qualification, and to be the place for the students to share their problems and complaints, while the functions are as one of the media to develop students’ quality, both the members of the non-member, and as the good examples and pioneers of any good deeds. The efforts done by student organizations in improving speaking skills are such as by making activities that lead to improving students' speaking skills like sticking vocabularies in each class and Friday activities such as language game, Arabic debate and short lecture.

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