HR: 0800h
AN: ED41C-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Importance and Perspectives of the Earth Sciences Popularization in Mexico
AU: * Flores-Estrella, H
EM: hflorese@gmail.com
AF: Departamento de Sismologia, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, D.F 04510, Mexico
AU: Yussim, S
EM: yussim@servidor.unam.mx
AF: Colegio de Geografia, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, D.F 04510, Mexico
AB: In our days the scientific popularization in Mexico has not a promising future and with the earth sciences is not better; most of the papers in the popularization magazines deal with subjects as earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, meteorite impacts and the massive extensions associated with them (e.g. Chicxulub). However, these subjects have not been enough to create conscience about the importance of earth sciences in the society and it has even motivated the idea of a community distant scientific with no social obligation, the idea that the earth scientists are responsible for all the problems in the planet (global warming, catastrophes) is wide spread. In these days that we need a change in our consumption, mainly in the energetic one, it's compulsory to change the relation between the subject and its environment; then, as we can not take care of something that we don't know, the scientific popularization has a fundamental role that we must start to pay attention to.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly