Democratizing Science

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Democratizing Science

The Political Roots of the Public Engagement Agenda

Mattei, Paola

Bristol University Press

09/2023

140

Dura

Inglês

9781529223958

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1 - Introduction: Science and Democracy


A crisis of public trust in science


Knowledge systems in a populist era


Overview of the book





Chapter 2 - Public Engagement: Concept, Practice and Rhetoric


Public engagement: a slippery concept


Conclusions





Chapter 3 - The Entrepreneurial State


The New Public Management


A critique of New Public Management


The case of the adoption of New Public Management in the 1990s in Italy


Citizens' Charter of Education


Conclusions





Chapter 4 - The Engaged State: Bringing Citizens In


Citizen science


Collaborative governance in the new millennium and citizens as co-producers


The ecological citizen


Youth public engagement with sustainability


Conclusions





Chapter 5 - Working with Schools and the Case of Ecological Citizenship


Education for sustainable development in Italy


Adoption of mandatory civic education in schools


Operational concerns from the street level


Discussion and analysis


Conclusions





Chapter 6 - Universities and Civic Engagement


The 'old' universities and their social embeddedness


The 'new' entrepreneurial university


Higher education landscape reforms: the marketization agenda


The 'engaged' university


Public universities at a crossroads


Conclusions





Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Public Scientist


Citizen science


Public engagement: the concept


Public engagement: the contradictions


Public engagement: the benign rhetoric
Public policy; Impact agenda; Environmental policy; Health policy; Public engagement; Higher education; Science communication; Co-production; Participatory research; Public trust in science