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Public awareness of science (PAwS), public understanding of science (PUS), or more recently, Public Engagement with Science and Technology are terms relating to the attitudes, behaviours, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organisation. It is a comparatively new approach to the task of exploring the multitude of relations and linkages science, technology, and innovation have among the general public. While earlier work in the discipline had focused on augmenting public knowledge of scientific topics, in line with the information deficit model of science communication, the discrediting of the model has led to an increased emphasis on how the public chooses to use scientific knowledge and on the development of interfaces to mediate between expert and lay understandings of an issue. The area integrates a series of other fields, such as: * Public controversies over science and technology; * science communication in the mass media, internet, radio and television programmes; * science museums, aquaria, planetaria, zoological parks, botanical gardens, etc.; * fixed and mobile science exhibits; * science festivals * science fairs in schools and social groups; * science education for adults; * consumer education; * public tours of research and development (R&D) parks, manufacturing companies, etc. * Science in popular culture * Science in text books and classrooms. How to raise public awareness and public understanding of science and technology, and how the public feels and knows about science in general, and specific subjects, such as genetic engineering, bioethics, etc., are important lines of research in this area. ==The Bodmer Report== The publication of the Royal Society's' report ''The Public Understanding of Science'' (or ''Bodmer Report'') in 1985 is widely held to be the birth of the Public Understanding of Science movement in Britain.〔http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD004707.html〕 The report led to the foundation of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and a cultural change in the attitude of scientists to outreach activities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House of Lords - Science and Technology - Third Report )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「public awareness of science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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