Navigating the Changing Landscape of Formal and Informal Science Learning Opportunities

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

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 la...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Corrigan, Deborah (Editor), Buntting, Cathy (Editor), Jones, Alister (Editor), Loughran, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Science education.
Learning.
Instruction.
Study Skills.
Environmental education.
Lifelong learning.
Adult education.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Navigating the changing landscape of formal and informal science learning opportunities, Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting, Alister Jones & John Loughran
  • Viewing Science Learning Through an Ecosystem Lens: A story in two parts, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking
  • Pregnant Pauses: Science Mueseums, Schools and a controversial exhibition, Erminia Pedretti & Ana Maria Navas-Iannini
  • Encounters with a narwhal: revitalising science education’s capacity to affect and be affected, Steve Alsop & Justin Dillon
  • Communicating science, Sue Stocklmayer
  • Reinvigorating primary school science through school-community partnerships, Kathy Smith, Angela Fitzgerald, Suzanne Deefholts, Sue Jackson, Nicole Sadler, Alan Smith & Simon Lindsay
  • Natural disasters as unique socioscientific events: Curricular responses to the New Zealand earthquakes, Léonie Rennie, John Wallace & Grady Venville
  • The challenges and opportunities for embracing complex socio-scientific issues as important in learning science: the Murray-Darling River Basin as an example, Peter Fensham Jasper Montana
  • Outreach Education: Enhancing the possibilities for every student to learn science, Debra Panizzon, Greg Lancaster & Deborah Corrigan
  • Using a digital platform to mediate intentional and incidental science learning, Cathy Buntting, Alister Jones & Bronwen Cowie
  • “Meet the Scientist”: How pre-service teachers constructed knowledge and identities, Gillian Kidman & Karen Marangio
  • Trial-and-error, Googling and talk: Engineering students taking initiative out of class, Elaine Khoo & Bronwen Cowie
  • Index.

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