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Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:05 AM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Zereshk (talk | contribs) The Texas House of Representatives meets during a legislative session. The Texas House has approved a bill educators worry will deal a setback to honest discussions on race, harm free speech in classrooms and hinder students understanding of civics. Republican-championed House Bill 3979, which would limit what public school students can learn about the United States treatment of people of color, passed Tuesday night on a 79-65 vote. With two exceptions, the vote fell along party lines. State Rep. Lyle Larson of San Antonio was the sole Republican to vote against it, the Tex ....
Ask a science communicator how old their field is. They might say a few decades, or even centuries, because they’re thinking about the Western science communication tradition associated with a scientist-public gap. These days, we almost exclusively associate science communication with Western science. Yet humans have always communicated knowledge about the world within their own societies and to others. There’s evidence of this going back tens of thousands of years. Society today should recognise past and ongoing science communication approaches that diverge from the West’s relatively recent ones. Also, as we have explored in a paper and webinar, we should include this knowledge in science communication histories. Here are three reasons why. ....