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Citizen Science as Participatory Science Communication

2021
Over the past 20 years, citizen science has been understood as either democratized citizen science or contributory citizen science. This chapter argues for a third understanding: citizen science as participatory science communication. Participatory science communication moves the focus of citizen science from doing science, be it either democratized or
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Participatory Geographic Information Science

2007
A majority of governmental problems are geographical in character and are becoming more complex as citizens/residents expect more for less. Governance, among many things, involves allocating human, natural, monetary, and infrastructure resources within and across jurisdictional boundaries in an efficient, effective, and equitable manner.
T. L. Nyerges, P. Jankowski
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Participatory Design and the Learning Sciences

2018
Teacher-researcher collaborations are common in design-based research, which is an approach often adopted by learning scientists interested in developing authentic learning environments that are grounded in both theory and practice. In teacher-researcher collaborations participants learn with and from each other.
Gomez, Kimberley, Kyza, Eleni A., Mancevice, Nicole   +2 more
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Agroecology as Participatory Science

Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2008
The discourses of agricultural extension reveal how actors represent their scientific activities and goals. The “transfer of technology” discourse developed with the professional U.S. extension service, reproducing its expert/lay power relations. Agroecology is emerging as a systems approach to preventing agricultural pollution.
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Youth participatory science: a grassroots science curriculum framework

Educational Action Research, 2019
This article introduces Youth Participatory Science (YPS) as an approach to science teaching and grassroots knowledge production that draws from traditions of youth participatory action research (Y...
Daniel Morales-Doyle, Alejandra Frausto
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Participatory Sciences Workshop Summary

As scientists across the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) respond to society’s greatest challenges with 21st century science, they are increasingly recognizing the need to engage with the decision makers, individuals, and communities their science aims to serve.
Johnson, Elijah, Land, Seamus
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