关键的STEM素养和COVID-19的流行病
1Nelson Mandela University, South Campus, University Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth, 6011 South Africa.
概括
随着COVID-19的流行,人们越来越需要关键的STEM素养. 这种识字能力对于理解科学,评估健康决策以及在健康危机期间批评公共政策至关重要.
科学领域:
- 科学,技术,工程和数学 (STEM) 教育教育.
- 公共卫生传播 公共卫生传播
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的爆发,出现了一种"恶性问题",其特点是复杂性和不确定性,需要有效地向公众传达STEM信息.
- 导航与流行病相关的信息需要了解科学如何运作,并告知个人健康决策.
- 政府的疫情缓解政策,如社交距离和口罩,依赖于STEM数据和建模.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间为公众与科学信息的接触辩论"关键STEM识字"的必要性.
- 探索STEM素养在批评与公共卫生相关的社会政策决策中的作用.
- 讨论大流行对STEM教育的影响,强调批判性思维和全球流行病学.
主要方法:
- 对科学,数学和批判性识字概念的审查.
- 对英国COVID-19大流行体验的分析,重点是数学建模 (例如,生殖率R),数据可视化和缓解策略.
- 检查STEM与政治背景之间的相互作用,包括对科学的误解.
主要成果:
- 批判性STEM素养对于解释科学信息和理解科学的局限性和社会实践至关重要,例如同行评审和偏见评估.
- 英国的数学建模和数据通信证明了STEM和政策之间的复杂相互作用.
- 观察到科学被误解为提供单一的真理,而不是不断发展的知识.
结论:
- 关键的STEM素养使个人能够做出明智的健康决策,并批判性地评估公共卫生政策.
- "STEM教育必须不断发展,以培养批判性思维和在全球范围内理解疾病流行病学.
- 欣赏科学的社会和政治层面是有效的STEM素养不可或缺的一部分.
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