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1. Conceptualizing community scientific literacy: Results from a systematic literature review and a Delphi method survey of experts.

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Busch, K. C. and Rajwade, Aparajita

Subjects
*SCIENTIFIC literacy, *SCIENCE education, *CULTURAL activities, *ACTORS, *DELPHI method
Abstract

The predominant conceptualization of scientific literacy occurs on the micro scale of an individual person. However, scientific literacy can also be exhibited at the meso scale by groups of people in communities of place, practice, or interest. What comprises this community level scientific literacy (CSL) is both understudied and undertheorized. In this paper, we utilized a systematic literature review to describe how CSL is characterized in the extant literature and a Delphi survey of experts to elicit more current thought. Guided by cultural‐historical activity theory, inductive and deductive analyses produced seven elements of CSL and their constituent characteristics: (1) resources, (2) attributes of those resources, (3) actors, (4) interactions between actors, (5) contexts, (6) topics, and (7) purposes. The typology created through this process is meant to be generative, serving as a starting point for continuing refinement within science education and other fields related to science learning and knowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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2. Addressing the dilemma of development on a coral reef atoll: A case study of Agatti atoll, in the Lakshadweep archipelago of India

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Rajwade, Aparajita and Wilson, Meriwether

Subjects
co-management, MSc Environment & Development, atolls, MPAs, India, coral reefs
Abstract

This dissertation was carried out with an aim of advancing the concept of establishing small, no take MPAs as a solution to sustainable reef use and conservation in the tropical atoll of Agatti, India. This was done by first carrying out a review of literature based on coral reef atoll management using co-managed MPAs. Second, a case study approach was used to analyse documents pertinent to Agatti’s socio-ecological system (SES). After careful analysis of the Agatti atoll and its parent archipelago, it was realised that the said atoll has certain inherent obstacles which hinder its sustainable development. However, this study also found out that the island community has latent potential for co-management. Therefore it was recommended that this aspect needs to be further explored and exploited through intensive consultations by the government. An indicative SES Framework was developed for Agatti with an element of a co-managed MPA fortifying the reef and its people. Implementation of this framework has the potential to lead Agatti towards sustainable development.

Published
2013

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