Resources

Publications & reports

• Science education and communication
  • Scientists who engage with society perform better academically. Pablo Jensen et al., Science and Public Policy. 2008. (pdf)
  • Travels In Troy With Freire, technology as agent of emancipation. Paulo Blikstein, in Freire and the Possible Dream. 2008. (pdf)
  • Public Participation in Scientific Research: Defining the Field and Assessing Its Potential for Informal Science Education. A CAISE Inquiry Group Report (pdf)
• Science, society, values
  • Citizen Scientists. Jack Stilgoe, pamphlet, 2009. (pdf)
  • Values in science (an introduction). Douglas Allchin, in International Handbook of Science Education. 1988 (pdf)
  • Science and social outreach
    • Teaching science for social justice. A.C. Barton et al. 2003. (google book)
    • Review of literature around engagement with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds (Wellcome Trust, pdf)
    • Research into engagement activities with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds (Wellcome Trust, pdf)

Inspiring texts

• Aims of education address. Questioning the authority of truth. 2011. University of Chicago. by B.E. Harcourt.
• Revoluscience: a manifesto on science communication to which we contributed

Original ways to share science

• a great video : La vie après la mort d'Henrietta Lacks. On the daily life of being a researcher.
• a great song : A capella science - Bohemian gravity !

Resources to which we contributed

• Job de rêve (Fr): Build upon imagination to choose your career path
• Questionnaire for choosing a hosting lab: created by PhD students during a training on scientific responsibility.

Practical resources on science education

• The Pilots
  • training courses and resources for European science explainers
• SciCommToolbox
  • a nice visualisation of the diversity of science communication tools, developed in Sweden
• Practical guides
  • developed by SciDevNet (UK NGO)
• Community Science Workshop Network
  • a wealth of low-cost science activities.
• All Science Fair Projects
  • science fair projects with complete instructions and further resources, tips and guides.
• Play Decide
  • discussion game to talk in a simple and effective way about controversial issues, in particular issues related to science
• Merlot
  • multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching
• How to smile
  • Science & maths educational activities, gathered by science museums.
• comPADRE
  • Physics and astronomy education communities
• Instructables
  • a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.
  • Wikidebrouillard (Fr)
  • A collaborative website gathering questions, experiences, explanations, etc...
• Handbook of public communication of science and technology
• Science in the classroom
  • a collection of annotated research papers and accompanying teaching material.
• SciTable
  • a collaborative learning space for science.

Blogs

• Café des sciences (Fr): French science blogs
• Mélodie Faury (Fr): Research on science values and researchers responsibilities
• Hypothèses (Fr) : Penser la science, collectivement, et par l'interdisciplinarité