Political actors pay attention to newspapers because they stimulate them to address a topic, reflect public opinion, provide feedback to their decisions, and help them to generate effective messages. Previous surveys showed that this is true for scientific issues. It follows that the newspaper coverage of scientific issues should appear as politically oriented, as observed regarding climate change. Here, we tested this prediction regarding educational neuroscience. This scientific issue is interesting because it implies no major economic interest and because the relevance of neuroscience regarding teaching in the classroom is still highly controversial. As hypothesized, we observed that the French press appeared strongly polarized: the right-leaning press was mostly favorable to educational neuroscience, whereas critical opinions were mainly found in the social-democrat press. Although the relevance of neuroscience toward teaching was rarely discussed in scientific arguments, political actors often invoked educational neuroscience in the press to legitimate their decision.

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2000 年至 2020 年法国媒体关于学校教育的神经科学话语的政治倾向。

政治行为者关注报纸是因为报纸激发他们讨论某个话题、反映公众意见、为他们的决定提供反馈并帮助他们产生有效的信息。之前的调查表明，对于科学问题来说也是如此。由此可见，报纸对科学问题的报道应该以政治为导向，正如在气候变化方面所观察到的那样。在这里，我们测试了关于教育神经科学的这一预测。这个科学问题很有趣，因为它并不意味着重大的经济利益，而且神经科学与课堂教学的相关性仍然存在很大争议。正如假设的那样，我们观察到法国媒体出现了强烈的两极分化：右倾媒体大多支持教育神经科学，而批评意见主要出现在社会民主党媒体中。尽管神经科学与教学的相关性很少在科学论证中讨论，但政治参与者经常在媒体上援引教育神经科学来证明他们的决定合法化。