Erminia Pedretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 2554833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erminia Pedretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erminia |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedretti |
| SIGNATURE | PEDRETTI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9825-8813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward an Affective Turn
Mental health issues are affecting individuals worldwide. It has been argued that science museums can play an important role in helping to confront social stigmas by joining conversations and enacting practices about mental health. In this paper, we focus on the exhibition Mental Health: Mind Matters developed originally in Finland, by Heureka The Finnish Science Centre, and then premiered at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM; St Paul, U.S.A.)…
Vers des musées scientifiques de quatrième génération
Autrefois axés essentiellement sur la collecte et la conservation, puis sur la communication scientifique au moyen d’expériences pratiques, les musées de sciences remodèlent lentement leur identité et leurs objectifs pour inclure et promouvoir explicitement la citoyenneté active, la responsabilité sociale, l’engagement dans des questions scientifiques ou technologiques complexes et l’action. S’inspirant de conceptions progressistes de la culture …
SAQ, SSI and STSE education
Towards Fourth-Generation Science Museums
Exploring Controversy in Science Museums
Preventing Youth Pregnancy
Educators’ perceptions of bringing students to environmental consciousness through engaging outdoor experiences
This paper explores the premise that environmental education involves raising environmental consciousness rather than simply knowing about the environment in a technical-rational manner and acting for it in mechanistic prescribed ways. The paper draws on educational theory and data from a phenomenological case study of educators working together at an outdoor education centre in urban Canada, whose practice of environmental education we believe c…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Courting Controversy
A Time for Change
Balancing the tensions and meeting the conceptual challenges of education for sustainable development and climate change
This paper addresses one of the key challenges for work on education, sustainable development and climate change: the overall conceptualisation of central ideas such as Environmental Education (EE), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Climate Change Education (CCE). What do these concepts mean in diverse contexts and amongst diverse actors? The paper draws on evidence from Denmark, Singapore, Canada and the UK to highlight both the si…
It's a personal thing
von Hagens' Body Worlds is a traveling exhibition that allows the public to experience the internal human body through the use of plastinated cadavers. Visitor responses to Body Worlds have been mixed – ranging from awe and fascination to disgust. Some feel that the exhibition is undignified and disrespectful to the human body. Others marvel at the beauty and complexity of the human body and the ability to see such detail. This study investigates…
Reflections on the Canadian Experience With Education for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Special Issue on Socio-Scientific Issues and Controversy in Science and Technology Education/ Revue canadienne de l’ enseignement des …
Negotiating the Complexities of Environmental Education
Reconnecting to the natural world through an immersive environment
Visitor perspectives on the nature and practice of science
Visitor Comments and the Socio-Cultural Context of Science
Multiparadigm voices of doctoral students
Underlined by the belief that teachers' critical awareness of their actions is a vital issue in education, this study examines the insights that evolved from a long-term collaboration among seven doctoral students. To prepare for our comprehensive examinations, we collaborated as a study group for one and one-half years. Adopting the dual roles of listener-researcher and narrator-participant, we engaged in dialogue and narrative to convey to each…
Balancing the tensions and meeting the conceptual challenges of education for sustainable development and climate change
This paper addresses one of the key challenges for work on education, sustainable development and climate change: the overall conceptualisation of central ideas such as Environmental Education (EE), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Climate Change Education (CCE). What do these concepts mean in diverse contexts and amongst diverse actors? The paper draws on evidence from Denmark, Singapore, Canada and the UK to highlight both the si…
Educators’ perceptions of bringing students to environmental consciousness through engaging outdoor experiences
This paper explores the premise that environmental education involves raising environmental consciousness rather than simply knowing about the environment in a technical-rational manner and acting for it in mechanistic prescribed ways. The paper draws on educational theory and data from a phenomenological case study of educators working together at an outdoor education centre in urban Canada, whose practice of environmental education we believe c…
Visitor Comments and the Socio-Cultural Context of Science
Multiparadigm voices of doctoral students
Underlined by the belief that teachers' critical awareness of their actions is a vital issue in education, this study examines the insights that evolved from a long-term collaboration among seven doctoral students. To prepare for our comprehensive examinations, we collaborated as a study group for one and one-half years. Adopting the dual roles of listener-researcher and narrator-participant, we engaged in dialogue and narrative to convey to each…
Multiparadigm voices of doctoral students
Underlined by the belief that teachers' critical awareness of their actions is a vital issue in education, this study examines the insights that evolved from a long-term collaboration among seven doctoral students. To prepare for our comprehensive examinations, we collaborated as a study group for one and one-half years. Adopting the dual roles of listener-researcher and narrator-participant, we engaged in dialogue and narrative to convey to each…
Visitor perspectives on the nature and practice of science
Visitor Comments and the Socio-Cultural Context of Science
Reconnecting to the natural world through an immersive environment
Negotiating the Complexities of Environmental Education
Reflections on the Canadian Experience With Education for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Special Issue on Socio-Scientific Issues and Controversy in Science and Technology Education/ Revue canadienne de l’ enseignement des …
It's a personal thing
von Hagens' Body Worlds is a traveling exhibition that allows the public to experience the internal human body through the use of plastinated cadavers. Visitor responses to Body Worlds have been mixed – ranging from awe and fascination to disgust. Some feel that the exhibition is undignified and disrespectful to the human body. Others marvel at the beauty and complexity of the human body and the ability to see such detail. This study investigates…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Courting Controversy
A Time for Change
Balancing the tensions and meeting the conceptual challenges of education for sustainable development and climate change
This paper addresses one of the key challenges for work on education, sustainable development and climate change: the overall conceptualisation of central ideas such as Environmental Education (EE), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Climate Change Education (CCE). What do these concepts mean in diverse contexts and amongst diverse actors? The paper draws on evidence from Denmark, Singapore, Canada and the UK to highlight both the si…
Educators’ perceptions of bringing students to environmental consciousness through engaging outdoor experiences
This paper explores the premise that environmental education involves raising environmental consciousness rather than simply knowing about the environment in a technical-rational manner and acting for it in mechanistic prescribed ways. The paper draws on educational theory and data from a phenomenological case study of educators working together at an outdoor education centre in urban Canada, whose practice of environmental education we believe c…
Preventing Youth Pregnancy
Exploring Controversy in Science Museums
SAQ, SSI and STSE education
Towards Fourth-Generation Science Museums
Vers des musées scientifiques de quatrième génération
Autrefois axés essentiellement sur la collecte et la conservation, puis sur la communication scientifique au moyen d’expériences pratiques, les musées de sciences remodèlent lentement leur identité et leurs objectifs pour inclure et promouvoir explicitement la citoyenneté active, la responsabilité sociale, l’engagement dans des questions scientifiques ou technologiques complexes et l’action. S’inspirant de conceptions progressistes de la culture …
Toward an Affective Turn
Mental health issues are affecting individuals worldwide. It has been argued that science museums can play an important role in helping to confront social stigmas by joining conversations and enacting practices about mental health. In this paper, we focus on the exhibition Mental Health: Mind Matters developed originally in Finland, by Heureka The Finnish Science Centre, and then premiered at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM; St Paul, U.S.A.)…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Science education (5 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (4 works)