Open AccessEngaging or transmitting? Health at the science centre
Author(s) -
Catharina Thiel Sandholdt,
Marianne Achiam
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.6661
Subject(s) - dialogic , exhibition , deconstruction (building) , sociology , citizen journalism , danish , health science , mandate , medical science , pedagogy , visual arts , art , medicine , medical education , political science , philosophy , engineering , linguistics , waste management , law
Science centres have a strong commitment to education, but theimplications of that commitment change over time. The discovery pedagogy ofthe first science centres is gradually being replaced with a more dialogic approachthat acknowledges that science has different meanings for different people. Here,we follow the transition of a Danish science centre towards this new approach; atransition driven by the development of a dialogic exhibition on health. To thisend, we study the adaptive transformation of scientific content from its origin inscientific literature to its embodiment in the exhibition, using discourse analysisto track its deconstruction and reconstruction. We observe that although thescience centre’s established discovery pedagogy does challenge the implementationof dialogic perspectives on health, the participatory approach taken in thedevelopment process successfully overcame these challenges. In conclusion, we offerour perspectives on the implications of our findings for science centres.