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Science and the "Good Citizen": Community-Based Scientific Literacy

Stuart Lee, Ph.D.

University of Victoria, Canada shlee{at}alumni.uvic.ca

Wolff-Michael Roth

University of Victoria, Canada

Science literacy is frequently touted as a key to good citizenship. Based on a two-year ethnographic study examining science in the community, the authors suggest that when considering the contribution of scientific activity to the greater good, science must be seen as forming a unique hybrid practice, mixed in with other mediating practices, which together constitute "scientifically literate, good citizenship." This case study, an analysis of an open house event organized by a grassroots environmentalist group, presents some examples of activities that embed science in "good citizenship." Through a series of vignettes, the authors focus on four central aspects: (1) the activists' use of landscape and spatial arrangements, (2) the importance of multiple representations of the same entity (e.g., a local creek), (3) the relational aspect of knowing and becoming part of a community, and (4) the insertion of scientific into moral discourse, resulting in what they call a "stewardship triad."

Key Words: scientific literacy • hybrid science • community science • public understanding of science • grassroots environmental activism

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 28, No. 3, 403-424 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0162243903028003003
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