Jorge dos Reis|Liliana Póvoas|Fernando Barriga|C. Lopes|Vanda Santos|Bernardo Dias Ribeiro|João Cascalho|A.M.F.R. Pinto
Science Education in a Museum: Enhancing Earth Sciences Literacy as a Way to Enhance Public Awareness of Geological Heritage
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia|University of Lisbon|Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia|University of Lisbon|Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia|University of Lisbon|Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia|University of Lisbon|Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia|University of Lisbon|University of Lisbon|University of Lisbon
today scientific literacy become increasingly important hallmark citizenship way facilitate many lifes daily decisions scientific literacy achieved learning complex lifelong process occurs school outofschool settings adults engage formal education science compulsory schooling learning people go outofschool settings beyond compulsory schooling becomes extremely important toward scientific literacy individual learning process outofschool settings requires interest person facilitated various agents example museums particularly true earth sciences geology topics rarely taught within science curricula school museu nacional de histria natural e da cincia provides realistic experiences engage different publics science thus enhances public science literacy expected enhancing peoples earth sciences literacy also enhance awareness geological heritage