The political leaning of the neuroscience discourse about school education in the French press from 2000 to 2020.

IF 3.5 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-05 DOI:10.1177/09636625231183650
Cédric Brun, Marie Penavayre, Francois Gonon
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Abstract

Political actors pay attention to newspapers because they stimulate them to address a topic, reflect public opinion, provide feedback to their decisions, and help them to generate effective messages. Previous surveys showed that this is true for scientific issues. It follows that the newspaper coverage of scientific issues should appear as politically oriented, as observed regarding climate change. Here, we tested this prediction regarding educational neuroscience. This scientific issue is interesting because it implies no major economic interest and because the relevance of neuroscience regarding teaching in the classroom is still highly controversial. As hypothesized, we observed that the French press appeared strongly polarized: the right-leaning press was mostly favorable to educational neuroscience, whereas critical opinions were mainly found in the social-democrat press. Although the relevance of neuroscience toward teaching was rarely discussed in scientific arguments, political actors often invoked educational neuroscience in the press to legitimate their decision.

2000 年至 2020 年法国新闻界关于学校教育的神经科学论述的政治倾向。
政治行为者关注报纸,是因为报纸能激发他们讨论某个话题,反映公众意见,为他们的决策提供反馈,并帮助他们生成有效的信息。以前的调查显示,科学问题也是如此。因此,报纸对科学问题的报道应具有政治导向性,正如在气候变化问题上所观察到的那样。在此,我们检验了有关教育神经科学的这一预测。这一科学问题很有意思,因为它并不涉及重大经济利益,而且神经科学与课堂教学的相关性仍存在很大争议。正如假设的那样,我们发现法国媒体出现了强烈的两极分化:右翼媒体大多对教育神经科学持赞成态度,而批评意见则主要出现在社会民主党媒体上。虽然在科学论证中很少讨论神经科学与教学的相关性,但政治人物经常在报刊上援引教育神经科学为其决策辩护。
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7.30
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9.80%
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期刊介绍: Public Understanding of Science is a fully peer reviewed international journal covering all aspects of the inter-relationships between science (including technology and medicine) and the public. Public Understanding of Science is the only journal to cover all aspects of the inter-relationships between science (including technology and medicine) and the public. Topics Covered Include... ·surveys of public understanding and attitudes towards science and technology ·perceptions of science ·popular representations of science ·scientific and para-scientific belief systems ·science in schools
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