Public understanding of science: The BA, The Royal Society and COPUS

Notes and Records of the Royal Society

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Bodmer, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deficit model; Public understanding of science; Science education; Statistical understanding; The two cultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955624113     PISSN: 00359149     EISSN: 17430178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0035     Document Type: Article

References (19)

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3. Peter Collins, personal communication.
4. Peter Collins, personal communication.
5. C. P. Snow, The two cultures (introduction by S. Collini), 12th printing (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
6. See also G. G. Ortolano, The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
7. Then, respectively, Head of the Policy Studies Unit and Assistant Secretary, National Affairs, at the Society.
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