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  2. Citizen science - Wikipedia

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    Citizen science could help address Canada's plastic pollution problem: (quote) "But citizen engagement and participation in science goes beyond beach cleanups, and can be used as a tool to bridge gaps between communities and scientists. These partnerships between scientists and citizen scientists have produced real world data that have ...

  3. Participatory action research - Wikipedia

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    PAR offers a long history of experimentation with evidence-based and people-based inquiry, a groundbreaking alternative to mainstream positive science. As with positivism, the approach creates many challenges [182] as well as debates on what counts as participation, action and research. Differences in theoretical commitments (Lewinian ...

  4. Research participant - Wikipedia

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    There are several standard themes in the choice of words (participant, subject, patient, control, respondent): In scientific publishing, many usage commentators prefer the term participant rather than subject because the latter has a connotation to some readers of limited autonomy, as if the person were in a subservient or uninformed role.

  5. Beneficence (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    The antonym of this term, maleficence, describes a practice that opposes the welfare of any research participant. According to the Belmont Report , researchers are required to follow two moral requirements in line with the principle of beneficence: do not harm and maximize possible benefits for research while minimizing any potential harm on ...

  6. Antiscience - Wikipedia

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    Antiscience is a set of attitudes and a form of anti-intellectualism that involves a rejection of science and the scientific method. [1] People holding antiscientific views do not accept science as an objective method that can generate universal knowledge.

  7. Scientific literacy - Wikipedia

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    Science literacy has always been an important element of the standards movement in education. All science literacy documents have been drafted with the explicit intent of influencing educational standards, as a means to drive curriculum, teaching, assessment, and ultimately, learning nationwide. [34]

  8. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  9. Science capital - Wikipedia

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    Instead, science capital is a way to think about grouping different kinds of science-related social and cultural capital, particularly those that people could use or exchange to support their attainment, engagement and/or participation in science. [6] [5] Science capital was first developed by Louise Archer and colleagues in the ASPIRES [4 ...