This essay defines scientific facilitation as a form of interactional expertise and explains how facilitating scientific teams requires skills in managing interpersonal interactions as well as understanding how different types of disciplinary knowledge integrate in the creation of new knowledge. It explains how this expertise may be developed through metacognition and provides examples of how scientific facilitation could be more widely incorporated into research by describing three pathways: developing facilitation skills among scientists leading teams, using broadly trained facilitators, and using specialized science facilitators. The strengths and risks of each path are discussed, and criteria are suggested for selecting the right approach for a given team science project.
Publisher
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Published On
Aug 05, 2022
Authors
Amanda E. Cravens, Megan S. Jones, Courtney Ngai, Jill Zarestky, Hannah B. Love
Tags
scientific facilitation
interactional expertise
team science
metacognition
facilitation skills
disciplinary knowledge
research integration
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