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ID 48962
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language
eng
Author
Go Yoshizawa
Motoko Okumoto
Keiichiro Tahara
Shingo Takahashi
Description
A value-centered approach to science, technology and society (STS) education illuminates the need of reflexive and relational learning through communication and public engagement. Visualization is a key to represent and compare mental models such as assumptions, background theories and value systems that tacitly shape our own understanding, interests and interactions. Yet conventional approaches including concept mapping and multi-criteria value elicitation methods often have little suggestion or implication as to how participants themselves can address and deliberate the incompatibility of their perceptions, preferences and perspectives. This study proposes Q workshop as a legitimate eliciting and deliberation technique that can be employed in pluralistic discourse, exploring systematic divergences of perspective by constructing the participant‘s self in a formative, emergent and contingent manner. For this it introduces Q mapping as a novel visualization tool for the hybridity of qualitative and quantitative methods derived from Q methodology. Q mapping is a two-factor solution that transforms the similarities in participants’ individual Q scores into distances represented in two-dimensional space, for the sake of illustrating the relative positioning and partitioning of perspectives in a schematic figure. A case study on STS education for postgraduate students demonstrates that Q workshop can play a heuristic and abductive role in providing independent illumination of distinguishable perspectives and facilitating individual and collective learning among participants, suggesting a schematic two-dimensional basis for resolving the key differences.
Subject
Q methodology
reflexive learning
mental models
visualization
participatory works
Journal Title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL & SCIENCE EDUCATION
Volume
11
Issue
13
Start Page
6277
End Page
6302
ISSN(Online)
1306-3065
Published Date
2016
Publisher
IJESE
NII Type
Journal Article
Format
PDF
Resource URL(IsVersionOf)
http://www.ijese.net/makale/795.html
Rights
© 2016 The Author. Open Access terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) apply. The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, on the condition that users give exact credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if they made any changes.
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e30565
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