This book presents a new and entirely different perspective on scientific literacy in that it valorizes the capacities of human beings to participate in worldly

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In his famous 1959 Rede lecture at Cambridge University, the scientifically-trained novelist C.P. Snow described science and the humanities as "two cultures," s

Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new

Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Shifts in the field—along with