Citizen science, education, and learning: Challenges and opportunities

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28160%2F20%3A63526058" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28160/20:63526058 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.613814/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.613814/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.613814" target="_blank" >10.3389/fsoc.2020.613814</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Citizen science, education, and learning: Challenges and opportunities

Original language description

Citizen science is a growing field of research and practice, generating new knowledge and understanding through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As the field expands, it is becoming increasingly important to consider its potential to foster education and learning opportunities. Although progress has been made to support learning in citizen science projects, as well as to facilitate citizen science in formal and informal learning environments, challenges still arise. This paper identifies a number of dilemmas facing the field—from competing scientific goals and learning outcomes, differing underlying ontologies and epistemologies, diverging communication strategies, to clashing values around advocacy and activism. Although such challenges can become barriers to the successful integration of citizen science into mainstream education systems, they also serve as signposts for possible synergies and opportunities. One of the key emerging recommendations is to align educational learning outcomes with citizen science project goals at the planning stage of the project using co-creation approaches to ensure issues of accessibility and inclusivity are paramount throughout the design and implementation of every project. Only then can citizen science realise its true potential to empower citizens to take ownership of their own science education and learning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS 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

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Sociology

ISSN

2297-7775

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Neuveden

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097669619