ABSTRACT The main goal for Science Recreation Workshops (SRWs) is to build communities that create meaningful experiences, while participants engage with science in a practical manner. This triggers processes where acting and knowing go hand-in-hand to involve each person as a whole. This requires physical, intellectual and emotional interaction to recreate various science aspects, such as knowledge, history, challenges and controversies. Just as SRWs are collective efforts, as public activities, they are usually promoted by groups as well. But, to the contrary of what happens in SRW with the public, it is common that the group efforts are more geared towards practice than theory. They prioritize working with the public rather than discussing the theoretical and methodological foundations for SRW, or their main challenges as they seek to train new members, evaluate their performance or create new activities. Groups interact with each other, however, this has only led to collaboration on projects rather than to a significant formal discussion. This article focuses specifically on SRW groups in Mexico, as a case study of an emerging community of practice. Data from active organizations were collected in 2009 and 2019, allowing us to compare the situation in these two periods of time and provides perspective on the community’s evolution.

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墨西哥的科学休闲工作坊团体：新兴社区研究

摘要科学娱乐研讨会（SRW）的主要目标是建立能够创造有意义体验的社区，而参与者则以切实可行的方式参与科学活动。这触发了行动和知识齐头并进地涉及每个人的过程。这需要身体，智力和情感上的互动来重现各个科学方面，例如知识，历史，挑战和争议。正如SRW是集体努力一样，作为公共活动，它们通常也是由团体推动的。但是，与SRW与公众发生的情况相反，通常的是，小组的工作更多地是针对实践而不是理论。他们优先考虑与公众合作，而不是讨论SRW的理论和方法基础，或他们寻求培训新成员，评估其绩效或开展新活动时面临的主要挑战。小组之间相互交流，但这仅导致了项目上的协作，而没有进行大量的正式讨论。本文专门针对墨西哥的SRW群体，作为一个新兴实践社区的案例研究。来自活跃组织的数据是在2009年和2019年收集的，这使我们能够比较这两个时期的情况，并提供有关社区发展的观点。