Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement

Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement
Author: Amy E. Lesen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131705878X

How do scientists, scholars, and other experts engage with the general public and with the communities affected by their work or residing in their sites of study? Where are the fine lines between public scholarship, civic engagement, and activism? Must academics 'give back' once they collect data and publish results? In this volume, authors from a wide range of disciplines examine these relationships to assess how they can be fruitful or challenging. Describing the methodological and ethical issues that experts must consider when carrying out public scholarship, this book includes a checklist for critical factors of success in engagement and an examination of the role of digital social media in science communication. Illustrated by a range of case studies addressing environmental issues (climate change, resource use, post-disaster policy) and education, it offers an investigation into the levels and ways in which scholars can engage, and how and whether academics and experts who engage in community work and public scholarship are acknowledged and rewarded for doing so by their institutions. Also bringing into the debate the perspective of citizens who have collaborated with academics, the book offers an exploration of the democratizing potential of participatory action research.

Political and Civic Engagement

Political and Civic Engagement
Author: Martyn Barrett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317635280

Based upon a three-year multi-disciplinary international research project, Political and Civic Participation examines the interplay of factors affecting civic and political engagement and participation across different generations, nations and ethnic groups, and the shifting variety of forms that participation can take. The book draws upon an extensive body of data to answer the following key questions: Why do many citizens fail to vote in elections? Why are young people turning increasingly to street demonstrations, charitable activities, consumer activism and social media to express their political and civic views? What are the barriers which hinder political participation by women, ethnic minorities and migrants? How can greater levels of engagement with public issues be encouraged among all citizens? Together, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of current understandings of the factors and processes which influence citizens’ patterns of political and civic engagement. They also present a set of evidence-based recommendations for policy, practice and intervention that can be used by political and civil society actors to enhance levels of engagement, particularly among youth, women, ethnic minorities and migrants. Political and Civic Participation provides an invaluable resource for all those who are concerned with citizens’ levels of engagement, including: researchers and academics across the social sciences; politicians and political institutions; media professionals; educational professionals and schools; youth workers and education NGOs; and leaders of ethnic minority and migrant organizations and communities.

Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art

Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
Author: Hersey, Leigh Nanney
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1522517286

Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including avenues in the fine arts. The Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art is a comprehensive reference source for emerging perspectives on the incorporation of artistic works to facilitate improved civic engagement and social justice. Featuring innovative coverage across relevant topics, such as art education, service learning, and student engagement, this handbook is ideally designed for practitioners, artists, professionals, academics, and students interested in active citizen participation via artistic channels.

Scientists' Expertise as Performance

Scientists' Expertise as Performance
Author: Joris Vandendriessche
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 131731722X

The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of their audiences and used performance to gain both scientific and popular support.

Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement
Author: John Louis Recchiuti
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812239577

"John Louis Recchiuti recounts the history of a vibrant network of young American scholars and social activists who helped transform a city and a nation. In this study, Recchiuti focuses on more than a score of Progressive reformers, including Florence Kelley, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. R. A. Seligman, Charles Beard, Franz Boaz, Frances Perkins, Samuel Lindsay, Edward Devine, Mary Simkhovitch, and George Edmund Haynes. He reminds us how people from markedly diverse backgrounds forged a movement to change a city, and beyond it, a nation."--BOOK JACKET.

Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum

Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum
Author: Richard M. Battistoni
Publisher: Campus Compact
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-01-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1945459077

Civic Education Across the Curriculum offers faculty in all disciplines rationales and resources for connecting their service-learning efforts to the broader goals of civic engagement. Campuses promoting engagement are beginning to tie service-learning practices to their civic mission of preparing students for participation in a diverse, democratic society. There are, however, few resources for faculty—especially those in fields not traditionally linked with civic education—to think about how civic engagement might be incorporated into their own disciplinary perspectives and course goals. This volume distills a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on citizenship into usable conceptual frameworks. It provides concrete examples of course materials, exercises, and assignments that can be used in service-learning courses to develop students’ civic capacities, regardless of disciplinary area. This volume will assist faculty in their own curricular work as well as enable them to combine their individual initiatives with others across their campus.

Science Communication Online

Science Communication Online
Author: Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780814255308

Examines new genres of online science communication to further explore how boundaries between experts and nonexperts continue to shift.

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Author: Peter Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-11
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 019993942X

"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation results in better government and better community outcomes. However, citizens concerned about the economic crisis need more than just deliberation or community organizing alone to achieve these outcomes. What they need, according to Peter Levine, is a movement devoted to civic renewal. Deliberative democracy-the idea that true democratic legitimacy derives from open, inclusive discussion and dialogue rather than simple voting-has become an extremely influential concept in the last two decades. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Peter Levine contends that effective deliberative democracy depends upon effective community advocacy. Deliberation, he shows, is most valuable when talk and debate are integrated into a community's everyday life. To illustrate how it works, Levine draws lessons from both community organizing and developmental psychology, and uses examples of successful efforts from communities across America as well as fledgling democracies in Africa and Eastern Europe. By engaging in this type of civic work, American citizens can meaningfully contribute to civic renewal, which, in turn, will address serious social problems that cannot be fixed in any other way"--

The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication
Author: Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2017
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190497629

On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.

Civic Ecology

Civic Ecology
Author: Marianne E. Krasny
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262028654

Offer stories of ... emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and studying it as a growing international phenomenon.--Back cover.