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What is scientific literacy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

John Durant
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Abstract

Scientific literacy should not be taken to mean the knowledge of a lot of science, but rather the understanding of how science really works.

Type
FOCUS—Issues for Science and Society
Information
European Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 83 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1994

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