August 30, 2016
Every day, people are making decisions that may impact their future. Decisions presumably based on an evaluation of the risks of choosing a or b over c. Governments and NGO's, too, must weigh alternative scenarios, account for the risk involved in each one, and arrive at the best option to feed into policy. However, the concept of ‘risk’ is not one that is easily communicated to youth, the public, or to governments. To address this issue, the IAP Science Education Programme (SEP) was invited by the National Science Museum of Thailand to participate in a special panel session on ‘Risk Communication on Public Issue: Mosquito-borne diseases – a case study’, held during Thailand’s National Science and Technology Fair on 25 August 2016. As a result of that meeting, a project being developed by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Science Education Programme (SEP) is to design school curricula for primary and secondary students (aged 8-17) and their teachers that will use inquiry-based science education (IBSE) methods to address the socio-scientific challenges and mitigation of mosquito-borne illnesses. This project is being led by Carol O’Donnell at the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) in Washington DC – an IAP SEP Global Council member.
Read more at http://www.interacademies.org/30767/Communicating-risk?sourc...