Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aas...212.3102e&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #212, #31.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.229
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Children are inspired to follow career paths when they can imagine themselves there. Seeing pictures of adult individuals who look like them working in a given career can provide this spark to children's imaginations. Most (though not all) of the current available posters of scientists are of Einstein, and Einstein-like scientists. This is not representative of the current face of science.
To change this, Pacific Science Center is hoping to host a photography exhibit: photographs of real, current scientists from all races, genders, beliefs, walks of life, and branches of science. Photos will be taken and short biographies written by Discovery Corps Interns (Pacific Science Center's youth development program) to increase the amount of direct contact between students and scientists, and to give the exhibit an emotional connection for local teachers and families. We hope to make the photographs from this exhibit available to teachers for use in their classrooms, in addition to being displayed at Pacific Science Center during the International Year of Astronomy.
The objectives of this project are to fill a need for representative photographs of scientists in the world community and to meet two of the goals of International Year of Astronomy: to provide a modern image of science and scientists, and to improve the gender-balanced representation of scientists at all levels and promote greater involvement by underrepresented minorities in scientific and engineering careers.
In this session I will present our preliminary plan for creating the photographs and working with the Discovery Corps youth, which will be available to other institutions interested in creating a similar project. I will also present more detail on the distribution plan for the photographs, so interested members and institutions can discuss contributing images to the project, or learn how they could receive copies of the photographs during IYA and beyond.
No associations
LandOfFree
Everyone Knows What a Scientist Looks Like: The Image of a Modern Scientist does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Everyone Knows What a Scientist Looks Like: The Image of a Modern Scientist, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Everyone Knows What a Scientist Looks Like: The Image of a Modern Scientist will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1395955