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Teaching Controversial Science: Where Values and Science Converge

This roundtable discussion explores the role of educators in supporting students as they negotiate controversial topics, and evaluates the role of the students’ values on interpretation of scientific concepts.

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Driving Nanotechnology in the Netherlands: Shaping the Dutch Government’s Approach to Nanotechnology

Which drivers shape the Dutch government's approach to nanotechnology, which carry more weight, and why? This study uses the United States as a benchmark for comparison.

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Astrological Planetary Alignment and Personality Differences: Saving us from Ignorance

The link between astrological planetary alignment and personality was investigated, using a large sample (N=65 268). It was found that neither zodiac star signs, nor planetary alignments, influence personality.

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Mad Scientist: Should Traver 1951 Be Retracted and How

In 1951, a delusional scientist successfully got her hallucinations published as fact. This workshop asked if we can we ethically retract such work. if not, what should be done?

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Producing Legitimacy through the Notion of Science in a Multinational Company: An Anthropological Approach to Scientific and Common Sense Knowledge

Science as a common sense and instrumental object in the context of a healing ritual in a multinational company.

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Fieldwork in Geology: Teachers’ Conceptions and Practices

In this investigation, we sought to identify the type and frequency of fieldwork implemented by geology teachers.

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Primary Teachers' Conceptions about Science Teaching and Learning

Primary teachers’ conceptions about science teaching and learning and their relationship to the views of transmission, discovery, and the constructivist approach to teaching and learning in science.

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Engaging Teenagers with Genetics and Genomics through a School-based Competition: Pilot Evaluation

This presentation will explore the impact of an interschool competition that sought to encourage young people to engage with issues relating to whole genome screening.

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Fractured Culture: Educare as a Healing Approach to Indigenous Trauma

The Westernised oppressive discourse has created isolation and breakdown of cultural structures in Aboriginal Australia. Educaring is a powerful healing resource underpinned by cultural safety, and re-engages an Indigenous pedagogy.

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Positive Psychology as a Scientific Movement

This article examines positive psychology’s emergence as a scientific movement and its failure to persuade the wider psychology community of its necessity due to its aggressive framing strategies.

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