Amplifying Informal Science Learning

Author : Judy Diamond,Sherman Rosenfeld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000901771

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Amplifying Informal Science Learning by Judy Diamond,Sherman Rosenfeld Pdf

This collection explores the broad landscape of current and future out-of-school science learning environments. Written by leading experts and innovators in informal science learning, these thoughtful and critical essays examine the changing nature of informal institutions such as science museums, zoos, nature centers, planetariums, aquaria, and botanical gardens and their impact on science education. The book examines the learning opportunities and challenges created by community-based experiences including citizen science, makerspaces, science media, escape rooms, hobby groups, and gaming. Based on current practices, case studies, and research, the book focuses on four cross-cutting themes – inclusivity, digital engagement, community partnerships, and bridging formal and informal learning – to examine how people learn science informally. The book will be of interest to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) educators – both in and out of school – designers of science and experiential education programs, and those interested in building STEM learning ecosystems in their communities.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Science Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309151931

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Surrounded by Science by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Science Education Pdf

Practitioners in informal science settings-museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardens-are interested in finding out what learning looks like, how to measure it, and what they can do to ensure that people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures, have a positive learning experience. Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments, is designed to make that task easier. Based on the National Research Council study, Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, this book is a tool that provides case studies, illustrative examples, and probing questions for practitioners. In short, this book makes valuable research accessible to those working in informal science: educators, museum professionals, university faculty, youth leaders, media specialists, publishers, broadcast journalists, and many others.

Author : Lucy Avraamidou,Wolff-Michael Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317361046

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Intersections of Formal and Informal Science by Lucy Avraamidou,Wolff-Michael Roth Pdf

Science learning that takes place between and at the intersections of formal and informal science environments has not been systematically reviewed to offer a comprehensive understanding of the existing knowledge base. Bringing together theory and research, this volume describes the various ways in which learning science in various settings has been conceptualized as well as empirical evidence to illustrate how science learning in these settings can be supported.

Author : Valerie Crane
Publisher : Research Communications, Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015063261021

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Informal Science Learning by Valerie Crane Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463000222

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New Ground by Anonim Pdf

In this volume, the CRYSTAL participants look back on their collective experience and describe research projects that pushed the boundaries of informal teaching and learning.

Author : Lynn D. Dierking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072422597

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Special Issue: Informal Science Education by Lynn D. Dierking Pdf

Author : Aída Walqui,George C. Bunch
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807761199

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Amplifying the Curriculum by Aída Walqui,George C. Bunch Pdf

This book presents an ambitious model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for English Learners and other students identified to be in need of language and literacy support. Starting with the premise that conceptual, analytic, and language practices develop simultaneously as students engage in disciplinary learning, the authors argue for instruction that amplifies—rather than simplifies—expectations, concepts, texts, and learning tasks. The authors offer clear guidance for designing lessons and units and provide examples that demonstrate the approach in various subject areas, including math, science, English, and social studies. This practical resource will guide teachers through the coherent design of tasks, lessons, and units of study that invite English Learners (and all students) to engage in productive, meaningful, and intellectually engaging activity. “This book offers the most detailed guide available for designing instruction for students categorized as ELLs. Theoretically grounded and informed by years of implementation and study, this work is without equal in the field. I recommend the book enthusiastically as required reading in all teacher preparation programs.” —Guadalupe Valdés, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education “Reflecting its title, this book is an amplification of what it means to provide the best learning opportunities for English Language learners. Drawing on classroom-based research, Amplifying the Curriculum offers many practical examples of intellectually engaging units and tasks. This innovative book belongs on the bookshelves of all teachers.” —Pauline Gibbons, UNSW Sydney “This timely book is a call to educators across the nation to integrate language, literacy, and disciplinary knowledge to improve the education of our new American students.” —Tatyana Kleyn, The City College of New York

Author : Deborah Corrigan,Cathy Buntting,Alister Jones,John Loughran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319897615

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Navigating the Changing Landscape of Formal and Informal Science Learning Opportunities by Deborah Corrigan,Cathy Buntting,Alister Jones,John Loughran Pdf

This book presents research involving learning opportunities that are afforded to learners of science when the focus is on linking the formal and informal science education sectors. It uses the metaphor of a "landscape" as it emphasises how the authors see the possible movement within a landscape that is inclusive of formal, informal and free-choice opportunities. The book explores opportunities to change formal school science education via perspectives and achievements from the informal and free-choice science education sector within the wider lifelong, life-wide education landscape. Additionally it explores how science learning that occurs in a more inclusive landscape can demonstrate the potential power of these opportunities to address issues of relevance and engagement that currently plague the learning of science in school settings. Combining specific contexts, case studies and more general examples, the book examines the science learning landscapes by means of the lens of an ecosystem and the case of the Synergies longitudinal research project. It explores the relationships between school and museum, and relates the lessons learned through encounters with a narwhal. It discusses science communication, school-community partnerships, socioscientific issues, outreach education, digital platforms and the notion of a learning ecology.

Author : Katerina Plakitsi
Publisher : Brill / Sense
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 9460913164

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Activity Theory in Formal and Informal Science Education by Katerina Plakitsi Pdf

The purpose of this book is to establish a broader context for rethinking science learning and teaching by using cultural historical activity theoretic approach. Activity theory already steps in its third generation and only a few works have been done on its applications to science education, especially in Europe. The context takes into account more recent developments in activity theory applications in US, Canada, Australia and Europe. The chapters articulate new ways of thinking about learning and teaching science i.e., new theoretical perspectives and some case studies of teaching important scientific topics in/for compulsory education. The ultimate purpose of each chapter and the collective book as a whole is to prepare the ground upon which a new pedagogy in science education can be emerged to provide more encompassing theoretical frameworks that allow us to capture the complexity of science learning and teaching as it occurs in and out-of schools. The book captures the dialogic and interactive nature of the transferring the activity theory to both formal and informal science education. It also contributes to the development of innovative curricula, school science textbooks, educational programs and ICT's materials. As a whole, the book moves theorizing and practicing of science education into new face and uncharted terrain. It is recommended to new scholars and researchers as well as teachers/researchers.

Author : Phyllis Katz
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873551922

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Community Connections for Science Education by Phyllis Katz Pdf

Science beyond the schoolhouse is the subject of this close-up look at informal science education in non-traditional settings, including Boys & Girls Clubs, 4-H, zoos, aquariums, and even public TV. More than a dozen writers draw on personal experience to tell why they became informal science educators and how they use the history and theory of traditional science education in their work. Among the book's features for informal science educators are a resource directory and a special section on program evaluation.

Author : Jennifer D. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Communication in science
ISBN : 1636672833

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Teacher Learning and Informal Science Education by Jennifer D. Adams Pdf

"This book is situated in a study of learning to teach science, informal science education and identity. The study initially aimed to learn how teachers' identities were influenced by teacher learning experiences in informal science institutions and sites. What emerged was how teachers transformed meanings, pedagogies and applications of informal science in ways that both resonated with their identities as teachers and social agents as well as the identities and needs of their students. This book emphasizes the teaching and learning of racialized students as well as highlight the experiences of similarly racialized teachers. However, what emerges are lessons for educators who are committed to authentically enacting equity in learning spaces; that is learning that is attentive to and affirming of students' and teachers' identities and desirings to utilize education as a tool to create imaginations of alternative futures. This is critical if we are to move towards planetary well-being. This book will highlight salient aspects of the research and offer examples of teacher enactments and frameworks for designing professional development and learning experiences that afford critical awareness, creativity and culturally affirming science education both in formal and informal contexts"--

Author : Marvin Druger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Museums
ISBN : UOM:39076000913025

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Science for the Fun of it by Marvin Druger Pdf

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, k, p, e, i, s.

Author : Mikko Rask,Richard Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317909491

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Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation by Mikko Rask,Richard Worthington Pdf

This book discusses political controversies involved in global biodiversity policy, and the practical opportunities that are opened up in solving them through increased citizen participation and democratic deliberation. It examines the emerging practice of deliberative global governance and its political consequences. The collection focuses on the intersection of global biodiversity policy and the promise of deliberative democracy. In doing so, it examines how new discursive logics emerge in global citizen deliberation that might destabilize the impasses encountered in biodiversity negotiations, how a "global citizens’ voice" emerges in deliberative processes despite the dominance of national institutions in the lives of those citizens, the most effective and innovative ways to amplify the results of large-scale deliberations to policy makers and broader audiences, and how future citizen deliberations can be designed to make them fair, feasible and consequential processes, in general and for biodiversity issues in particular. This highly original contribution to the field provides theoretical discussions, empirical analyses and local experiences of biodiversity policy, making it an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental politics, governance and sociology, particularly those interested in deliberative democracy, citizen participation and biodiversity.

Author : Clare Matterson,John Holman,Wellcome Trust (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:869551007

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Informal Science Learning Review by Clare Matterson,John Holman,Wellcome Trust (London, England) Pdf

Author : Bronwyn Bevan,Bahia Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000427806

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Theorizing Equity in the Museum by Bronwyn Bevan,Bahia Ramos Pdf

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices. Written during a time when museums around the world were being forced to reckon with their institutional practices of exclusion; their histories of colonization, both cultural and intellectual; and, for many, their tenuous business models, the chapters leverage a range of theoretical perspectives to explore lived experiences of working in the museum towards changing the museum. Theories of spatial justice, critical pedagogy, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical race theory, and others are used to consider how the museum’s dominant cultural structures and norms collide with museum professionals’ aspirations for inclusive practices. The chapters present a mix of empirical research and reflections, which collectively operate to theorize the museum as a potential force for enriching, empowering, and transforming an inclusive public’s relationship with some of our most powerful ideas and aspirations. But first they must change, from the inside out. Grounded in practice and practical problems, Theorizing Equity in the Museum demonstrates how theory can be used as a practical tool for change. As a result the book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, education, learning and culture, as well as to museum practitioners with an interest in equity and inclusion.