New ground [electronic resource] : pushing the boundaries of studying informal learning in science, mathematics, and technology / foreword by Jrène Rahm ; edited by Karen S. Sahin and R. Steven Turner.
2015
LC45.3
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Title
New ground [electronic resource] : pushing the boundaries of studying informal learning in science, mathematics, and technology / foreword by Jrène Rahm ; edited by Karen S. Sahin and R. Steven Turner.
ISBN
9789463000222 electronic book
9463000224 electronic book
9789463000208
9789463000215
9463000224 electronic book
9789463000208
9789463000215
Published
Rotterdam, The Netherlands : SensePublishers, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 306 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-6300-022-2 doi
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LC45.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.04
Summary
Between 2004 and 2009, university educators, practicing scientists, museum and science-centre personnel, historians, and K-12 teachers in Canada?s eastern Atlantic provinces came together as a research community to investigate informal learning in science, technology, and mathematics. The interdisciplinary collaboration, known as CRYSTAL Atlantique, was sponsored by Canada?s National Science and Engineering Research Council. 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. Those projects include encounters between students and practicing scientists in university laboratories and field studies; summer camps for science engagement; after-school science clubs for teachers and students; innovative software for computer assisted learning; environmental problem-solving in a comparative, international context; online communities devoted to solving mathematical problems; and explorations of ethonomathematics among Canadian aboriginal peoples. The editors and contributors stress the need for research on informal learning to be informed continuously by a notion of science as culture, and they analyze the forms of resistance that studies of informal learning frequently encounter. Above all, they urge a more central place for informal science learning in the larger agenda of educational research today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 14, 2015).
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Sahin, Karen S., editor.
Turner, R. Steven, editor.
Turner, R. Steven, editor.
Series
Bold visions in educational research ; volume 46.
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