Can the Scientific Research Process Be Communicated and Demystified By Use Of Narrative Structure?
“What I am proposing is that our instruction in science from the start to the finish should be mindful of the lively processes of science making, rather than being an account only of ‘finished science’ as represented in the textbook, in the handbook, and in the standard and often deadly ‘demonstration experiment.’ We live in a sea of stories, and like the fish who (according to the proverb) will be the last to discover water, we have our own difficulties grasping what it is like to swim in stories.” (Bruner 1996) The current International Polar Year (IPY) is already swimming with stories, and with the use of the Data Stories framework, the essential who, what, where, when, how, and why elements of research can be captured and conveyed to non-technical audiences who lack the background to comprehend and appreciate the process of data collection, analyses, review and publication. Designed primarily to make scientific research more accessible and meaningful to non-technical audiences (McC
