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http://dx.doi.org/10.15523/JKSESE.2022.15.3.373

Exploring Science Communicators' Competencies for Public Understanding of Science (PUS): Focusing on National and International Science Communicators' Curriculums  

Young-Shin, Park (Chosun University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education / v.15, no.3, 2022 , pp. 373-390 More about this Journal
Abstract
Science museums are platforms of PUS (public understanding of science). The purpose of this study was to explore the science communicators' competencies critical in interacting with visitors from the comparison of their training and professional development programs nationally and internationally. The managers running science communicators' programs and communicators themselves from six different national science museums and those from five different international ones participated in the structured survey. The data from surveys were compared among respondents to draw common and specific descriptions for communicators' competencies. In addition, the experienced exemplary science communicator, Ms. Park, participated in this study and the data from her observation field notes, her own developed science communicators' manual, and interviews were used to support the result. The contextual model of learning in science museums (Falk, 2006) was used to illustrate science communicators' expertise. National managers and science communicators showed difference in their perception about science communicators' roles, difficulties, and improvement for their competencies. Internationally, the managers and science communicators showed similar perception about communicators' competencies in terms of the contextual model of learning. It is highly suggested that practice-based science communicators' training and professional development programs must be offered on the basis of interaction between experienced and novice communicators as mentors and mentees systems.
Keywords
PUS(public understandings of science); science centers; science communicators; curriculum;
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