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Content Provider | Indian Culture |
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Author | Sehgal, Narender K. |
Organization | National Council of Science Museums |
Copyright Year | 2010 |
Description | Includes bibliographical references. We examine how science communication can help make more and more people scientifically literate and aware. Also, to keep them that way, i.e. scientifically aware and literate, science communication needs to be continual, persistent and Sustained. Social upliftment, in very simple terms, means turning ‘have-nots’ into ‘haves’. We will see that the only way science communication can help do that is by enabling, empowering and motivating the have-nots into putting in the required effort to lift themselves, out of their present condition, into the category of haves - and having done that, help others to do the same, and never to allow themselves to revert to their earlier condition. Science communication is a term that covers a lot of ground, in terms of what it can do directly for people, and in what it can help us achieve indirectly. Social upliftment falls in the latter category - unless an increase in scientific literacy of the general public, itself, is considered as one among essential parameters that characterize social upliftment. As one who has been for long advocating and Working for promoting scientific literacy as an essential trait for every self-respecting Citizen of India (and of this world), I would certainly include it high in the list of essentials for social upliftment. |
Page Count | 5 |
File Format | |
Language | English |
Publisher | National Council of Science Museums |
Publisher Place | Kolkata |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Science Study Science Communication Science Teaching Propagation Science Communication |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |
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