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Tag: philosophy of science

Notes on ‘The potential of palaeontology for science education’

Posted on January 26, 2021January 29, 2021 Posted in Blog, Reading, researchTagged achiam, learning, natural history, palaeontology, philosophy of science, public engagement, science education, science of scienceLeave a comment

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331100551_The_potential_of_palaeontology_for_science_education


Today had too many meetings to actually settle on data analysis (which I really do need to get on with) so designated it as my reading day. As always, I have about 500 tabs, they’re all highly relevant (following an earlier winnowing process would you believe) and someone’s got to read them all.

I’ve found I’m a big admirer of Achiam’s work (The Case for Natural History was one of the first papers I read upon starting as a user researcher at the NHM and made a huge impact on me) and her work always seems dead on to what I’m trying to investigate. Combined with critiques of digital museum content, I think there’s lots of potential for creating effective and self-reflective frameworks to aid a community centred approach for science communication via digital platforms.

Some quotes from the paper that particularly struck me as follows:

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