Sökning: "public engagement with science"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden public engagement with science.
1. Designing Public Play : Playful Engagement, Constructed Activity, and Player Experience
Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore why people engage in, and how to design for, play in a public setting. It does this by separating design for play from design of games, describing play as a socially and mentally understood activity, and a playful approach to engaging in that activity. LÄS MER
2. Exploring public policy legitimacy : a study of belief-system correspondence in Swedish environmental policy
Sammanfattning : As environmental problems today are understood as being problems of collective action, they also depend on the broad engagement of individual citizens for their successful solution. Policymakers are thereby faced with the challenge of designing policy and constructing policy tools, which contribute to an increase in individual environmental responsibility and voluntarily behavioural change. LÄS MER
3. Fractures in the Fabric of Democracy? : Change and Continuity in Public Opinion in Contemporary Europe
Sammanfattning : Is representative democracy in Europe becoming undermined by developments in public opinion? This dissertation addresses this overarching question, by studying the development over time of (i) ideological polarization; (ii) the degree to which vote choices are structured by political attitudes; and (iii) the degree to which parties are internally congruent in political opinion across levels. Public opinion is understood as the metaphorical ‘fabric’ of representative democracy, where conjectures to the fact of a fracturing dynamic are plausible and recurrent in academic and public debate. LÄS MER
4. Science Enacted in Everyday Life: Studies of On-line and Classroom Practice
Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the field of science education with two studies investigating science literacy in its practice in everyday life. The approach embrace a view on science learning as embedded in the context of situation, resulting in the study of two practices: on-line communication and science classroom. LÄS MER
5. Spelar adressen någon roll? : En studie av områdeseffekter på medborgares politiska deltagande
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe and explain (individual level) public political participation, with particular focus on the significance of the local, geographical context. Studies of political participation have traditionally focused on individual level explanations. Here, however, the question of the significance of place, is also raised i. LÄS MER
