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While museum educators are essential to engage under‐served publics in science, their communication often reinforces dominant cultural norms and disengage visitors. Why are certain communication models so dominant and why are the cultural norms that underpin these so resistant to reconceptualisation? What conceptualizations about science communication are held by museum coordinators and how representative...
Museum educators play a key role in explaining science in a museum. Verbal language is primarily used to communicate scientific concepts, but the way language shapes the explanations provided has not been investigated. This qualitative study focuses on the explanations about light provided by three museum educators to eighth grade students (13–14 years old), during unstructured visits to a science...
This chapter is concerned with the need for increased efforts to both revise the school chemistry curriculum, so that more students are encouraged to persist in the study of the subject, and to make the ideas of chemistry more readily available and appealing to adults. The aim must be to provide increased opportunities for lifelong learning. Attention is focused on the educational principles that...
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