Citizen science – bridging the gap between scientists and amateurs

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10396456" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10396456 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hPQx7x40OS" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=hPQx7x40OS</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cti-2018-0032" target="_blank" >10.1515/cti-2018-0032</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Citizen science – bridging the gap between scientists and amateurs

Original language description

The European Union has been facing common issues such as early school leaving and lifelong learning for years. They are main targets that remain on the EU agenda and all good practice examples are welcome. Citizen science is one of the approaches that seems to have great potential to draw a wide group of people to science in a popular way. People can easily become a part of a scientific team and contribute to research that could hardly be carried out by one small team. Many citizen science researchers deal with issues that are attractive for people because of their usefulness or application (gathering ticks, taking photographs of surroundings) and/or because of the accessibility of the data (typical for biological issues). This aspect also supports bridging the gap between citizens-amateurs and scientists-professionals, as well as lifelong learning. Chemistry is a natural science subject that is rarely performed in citizen science, and little research is devoted to the educational aspect of citizen science projects. Therefore, we present here a brief overview of an increasing scientific design that is widely used in natural science, although rarely in chemistry. Citizen science seems to be a potentially useful tool for improving chemistry education.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Chemistry Teacher International: Best Practices in Chemistry Education

ISSN

2569-3263

e-ISSN

2569-3263

Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

20180032

UT code for WoS article

000837778200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114836002