open access

https://doi.org/10.14943/17532

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/18940

For Science and Engineering Communication as an integral part of Japanese Society : A Report on the Tokyo Tech Educational Internship Programme

日本語

media coverage

2007-03

北海道大学科学技術コミュニケーター養成ユニット

Journal of Science Communication

1

25-35

If skill in science and engineering communication is to become an integral part of Japanese society, it will be necessary for universities and other institutions to have a reliable programme that can educate the people responsible for making this skill a reality. What is of critical importance in science communication is the ability to design a space for dialogue, as well as the consciousness with regards to communication that exists as a precondition to that dialogue. Here, as a method for cultivating that consciousness, a graduate school programme will be introduced for adopting internships that place students at institutions that work on issues of science policy and media coverage. Moreover, this programme will be one that freely elicits the suggestions of its participants and is in a continual process of being redesigned and refined based on those suggestions.

紀要論文

Version of Record

1881-8390