Types of knowledge in science-based practices
Date
2014
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SISSA
Abstract
Science communication as an interdisciplinary field of study has always
been concerned with issues of knowledge utilisation. This theoretical paper focusses
on the “knowledge” part of knowledge utilisation and provides a conceptual
frame to distinguish between different types of knowledge in science-based practice.
A practitioner’s knowledge store is portrayed as a dense set of personal knowledge,
consisting of procedural knowledge, factual knowledge, potential factual knowledge
and opinions/beliefs; the totality of which is continuously refined through more experiences
and additional information received from people, documents or events.
Implications for future studies of knowledge utilisation in science-based practices
are highlighted and a number of questions posed to science communication as a
profession.
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CITATION: Boshoff, N. 2014. Types of knowledge in science-based practices. Journal of Science Communication, 13(3):A06.
The original publication is available at http://jcom.sissa.it
The original publication is available at http://jcom.sissa.it
Keywords
Science communication, Knowledge, Communication in science
Citation
Boshoff, N. 2014. Types of knowledge in science-based practices. Journal of Science Communication, 13(3):A06.