Critical Reading of Citizen Science: Second-Order Observation of the “Incluscience-Me” Project in Córdoba, Spain.
The “Incluscience-Me” project is organized and coordinated by the University of Córdoba and the Biodiversity Management Research Group (GESBIO) with the collaboration of other entities.
It consists of promoting ecological awareness in children under 12 years of age, through children's participation in environmental research with school activities (teaching, workshops) and extracurricular activities (exploration of the wildlife of Córdoba).
The project includes students from early childhood and primary education, teachers from selected educational centers (9 Primary early childhood education center), and special education students.
We propose to link this project with the process of environmental socialization of children, not only as participants, but also as protagonists of the research carried out.
The questions from sociocybernetics are:
How does the “Incluscience-Me” project influence the understanding of biodiversity conservation and the pro-environmental attitude of children under 12 years of age? And above all, how does the project promote a reflexivity in the concept of citizenship in the participants?
The paper proposes to analyse the foundations of the project, the experience in a learning and practice context, its execution records and the perspective of the participants in order to analyse, with a second-order observation, the degree of satisfaction of the children in participating in the project, the meaning they give to this participation and the way in which this broadens their vision of citizenship.