We are largely ignorant. At least, there are many more things we are ignorant of than
knowledgeable of. Yet, the common perception of ignorance as a negative trait has left it …

Communication of scientific knowledge has been caught up in a pedagogical struggle
between science literacy ideologies. The backseat role taken by the teaching of the …

We only need to consider public media reports to appreciate that there is growing concern
amongst citizens for sustainability. This concern arises from increasing appreciation that the …

Increasing public knowledge of science is a widely recognized goal, but what that
knowledge might consist of is rarely unpacked. Existing measures of science literacy tend to …

Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and
enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet …

In this paper, we argue that the current science curricula are failing to educate students to be
competent outsiders to science. Historically, science education has rested on two premises …

In this “new media” world, more is demanded of citizens in terms of evaluating scientific
claims than ever before. Science itself is a social activity. While so-called heuristic (cue …

This commentary argues that we need to take ignorance and non-knowledge seriously in
the fields of science communication and public understanding of science. As much as we …

Discourse about public perception of science is often positioned as a dichotomy between
trust in scientific evidence and scientists as experts, versus critiques of the limitations of …

Despite all our research, a truthful response to questions such as" What's going to happen to
the biosphere?" will most often be" We don't know, and we won't know." We go on to explore …